Student work -Activity: Looking for That Thing
Teaching Students to
Believe Own Intuition When Working The Experience of Art
The story in each
student's work of art begins in his or her heart.
What is intuition? By the Oxford Dictionary, we have
that Intuition is the “direct or immediate insight”.
I refer here to ‘the immediate concern of an idea,’ any
idea crazy it may seem, a line, or a dot a shape or a face, one eye or a tree;
the placement of an object, as well the transfer of the object to the visual
medium, or the feeling of color by the mind without the intervention of any
reasoning process.
In other words, how to pass to the student that his or her
primary feeling is ok, his natural way of drawing is just fine and his sense
and understanding of order will work perfectly well.
Francis Bowen in his book A Treatise on Logic says: “In receiving Intuition, the mind exerts no
conscious activity” What we are to see or observed from any art activity done
under this base ‘the intuition at work’ is an exercise of pure and balance
inner me, no tension or predisposition to end a work determined by others
opinion or idea, not false pretends that normally are to end visually
disturbing or personal struggles and, clearly a problem with self believe by the force and re-thanked of a none existing idea.
However, it is not that easy, at the list, at first glance. How
do convince anyone that what they are just about to do with the pencil, colors, or charcoal is good, and will end all right?
Starting with the idea that we do not need to convince anyone to follow, believe, or do what we ask, we invite students to a journey; in
the middle of that journey we invite students to look, look closer, we can
point amazing lines, or great use of the space or directions, we can suggest to
feel the colors and observe from far their process, we invite them to be critical.
Student work - Activity: Looking for That Thing
In the end, students exercise their critical minds by doing their own
assessments, with the faculty that each student posses of making discerning
judgments in aesthetic matters.
When the activity, the journey, has ended, the teacher educates
about how intuition made things possible and beautiful, explaining the mind
process, the use of the elements of art, and the use of mediums visually
presented in each student outcome.
The powerful and unique designs or works of art were possible only
because they exist, as a unique and singular individual. And very
important to let them know how much they already knew.
It is important to remember as Kant writes in his book Critique
of Aesthetic Judgment,
”That judgment of
esthetics value are not susceptible of proof or demonstration, and no one has
been able to refuse this, either in practice or in the argument.”
Our brain needs order, and always is searching for order,
however, order can be done in infinite ways.
Art Activity:
“Looking for that Thing”
Art activity is at the –Activities Page-
Angela M Franco
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