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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Morrisroe" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:04 PM
> Subject: Sahra: Teaching Drawing to Adults
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>> Hello Sahra,
>> I find your questions quite interesting and sadly true. Most
>> literature about visual perception focuses on the developing visual
>> perception of the young, as if once you become an adult your visual
>> understanding of the world is fixed and no further changes occur.
>> That is a rather preposterous and false assumption. I've taught
>> drawing at the university level for well over fifteen years and quite
>> enjoy the challenge of helping people to see what their looking at,
>> and then record what they are seeing, rather than what they think
>> they see. Again, this is tied to assumptions, this time visual
>> assumptions. The challenge that you are looking at, teaching
>> drawing, teaching visual understanding, connects to that age-old
>> question, can art be taught. Although I may struggle with the "Art"
>> with a capital 'A" portion of the question, I couldn't possibly teach
>> if I didn't believe that it could be taught. One issue that I think
>> is crucial to your query is what to do with the ability to render?
>> Yes it is important for students to be able to draw observationally,
>> but the bigger question I believe that needs to be addressed along
>> with that skill acquisition, is what do I do with this skill, and how
>> does it further my goals as an artist?
>>
>> Some reading that may be useful:
>> Arnheims, Art and Visual Perception
>> Dewey?s Art as Experience
>> Ruskins The Elements of Drawing
>>
>> Notice that these books are about thinking about art, that may be the
>> substantive change that occurs in the literature, that when we become
>> adults we ponder.
>>
>> You?ve chosen an interesting can of worms to investigate and I wish
>> you the best with it. Please share the results of your research when
>> its ready.
>> Julia Morrisroe
>>
>>
>>
>> Julia Morrisroe
>> Assistant Professor
>> School of Art and Art History
>> University of Florida
>> Fine Arts Building D #237
>> P O BOX 115801
>> Gainesville, FL 32611-9500
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>> 352-392-0201 X238
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