one of the prerequisites to being a good painter is usually the ability to look past the Symbolic World Representation (capitalized for mad drama) and actually see the lines, curves and colours that compose ones visual field.
This reminds me of the way children draw a strip of blue at the top of their paper to represent the sky instead of bringing it down to the horizon.
Study 1 examined the landscape paintings of a group of 45 7-10-year-old children and found the children leaving an air gap to be significantly younger than those painting the sky to the horizon. In addition the omission of the air gap was associated with the use of devices to represent three-dimensional space in two dimensions.
That seems to imply it may be a learnable skill; though it’s weak evidence.
This reminds me of the way children draw a strip of blue at the top of their paper to represent the sky instead of bringing it down to the horizon.
That is exactly what I am talking about.
That seems to imply it may be a learnable skill; though it’s weak evidence.
It is but the evidence is lacking other than a lot of artist going “yeah it’s totally learnable,” including myself. In actuality it is much the same techniques as applied in realising words aren’t what they appear to be.
I personally think it is strongly correlated with realising that the map isn’t the territory.
Small children usually draw symbolically. A house is a square with a triangle on top, a man has two arms and two legs, en eye is an oval with a dot in it, etc. The skill is to see that the house has perspective and funny looking windows and in fact doesn’t have a chimney, to see that the man is sitting so his left leg is barely visible and that the eye is viewd from the side, etc.
Your field of vision is composed of curves and colours, your visual reasoning is composed of concepts and symbols. To draw, one needs to let the first be close connected to the hand that holds the brush, than the latter.
This reminds me of the way children draw a strip of blue at the top of their paper to represent the sky instead of bringing it down to the horizon.
http://jbd.sagepub.com/content/13/1/49.short
That seems to imply it may be a learnable skill; though it’s weak evidence.
That is exactly what I am talking about.
It is but the evidence is lacking other than a lot of artist going “yeah it’s totally learnable,” including myself. In actuality it is much the same techniques as applied in realising words aren’t what they appear to be. I personally think it is strongly correlated with realising that the map isn’t the territory.
Small children usually draw symbolically. A house is a square with a triangle on top, a man has two arms and two legs, en eye is an oval with a dot in it, etc. The skill is to see that the house has perspective and funny looking windows and in fact doesn’t have a chimney, to see that the man is sitting so his left leg is barely visible and that the eye is viewd from the side, etc.
Your field of vision is composed of curves and colours, your visual reasoning is composed of concepts and symbols. To draw, one needs to let the first be close connected to the hand that holds the brush, than the latter.