Dear Ana
I think this is very much the drawing process! And the problem with
most classical scholars is that they they are classical scholars, not
artists nor scientists - as I have recommended before, try Lakoff and
Johnson, Philosophy in the Flesh.
All the best
David
David Haley
MIRIAD
Manchester Metropolitan University
Postgraduate Research Centre
Cavendish North Building
Manchster M15 6BG
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Dear all,
Thank you. It's very rewarding to get your feedback.
It's true that people tend to have the idea of an artist as a being at
ease
with creativity and intuition and too free in organized thinking.
Myself I've
suffered from this preconception.
The most recent example I have in mind are the theories of David
Hockney
about the use of Camera Lucida. I find his hypothesis viable and his
train of
though very interesting, but also discovered that his postulations are
looked
upon with some mistrust from more classical scholars.
Myself I began with an intuition about the way drawing is particular
way of
using the intelligence (of thinking) as well as a privileged mean of
communication, and organized my thoughts after knowing the work of
Hanna and
Antonio Damasio about the relation between affection and the
intelligent mind.
In a way they prove scientifically an idea that Freud already
postulated,
that phenomenology also accepts, and that a creative person knows
subconsciously, that we cannot use our intelligence if intuition,
affection
and sensibility, in general, are impaired.
They show how far the mind is a whole and not a machine sometimes
intelligent, sometimes intuitive or affective or creative.
Also I do not believe in categorizing people, minds, in boxes with a
tag,
after all an artist is someone who developed and specialized
him/herself in
using imagination, intuition and affection as a working tool to create
art
objects. He/she may be born with some tendencies, but not more a
scientists
or a philosopher is a born one.
I have great trust in human capacities and only mourn for those who do
not
have the chance to develop them.
We are different from each other but not in the way that one or a group
is
better for ingrained reasons. I learned that from teaching, especially
from
teaching drawing were society and cultural boundaries do not count.
It the pure mind and self at work.
This time it was not so much the drawing process...
Yours Ana Leonor
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