visual thinking. rudolph arnheim

- the past has been nothing - it is forgotten and when thought of once again it is an ilusion; the past is covered with dust - the present is everything - movement, joy, despair, hope, doubt - it is how; one lives in the present - the future is unknown.

- the drawing depict mental not physical forces.

- the past is solid and complete, but still influences the present and the future - the present is complex and not only a result of the past and leading to future, thus overlapping both, but is an entitty in itself - the future is leats limited but influenced by both, past and present - one line runs through for all have one common element - time.

- representating abstract concepts by means of non - mimetic drawings.

- drawings, paintings and other similar devices serve not simply to translate finished thoughts into visible models but are also a aid in the process of working out solutions of problems.

14. art and thought

thinking children`s drawings

- the young minds operates with elementary forms, wich are easily distinguished from the complexity of the objects they depict.

- the children often give only only rough aproximations of the shapes and spatial relations they intend to depict.

- the drawing does better it presents a vertical continuum, the unbroken relation between what happens above in the boats and below in teh dephts, one coherent even showing all functions and connections of the total process.

se podrian hacer experimentos con niños, pedir que dibujen un concepto en particular y analizar las imagenes. para asi encontrar cosas en comun. maneras de percepcion y representacion.

buscar que conceptos especificamente son los que pueden arrojar resulados ultiles.

ej.

mar con barco

familia

niñez

pasado, presente, futuro

violencia

amor

amistad

fuerza

muerte

conejo