"Form must on no account ever be considered as something to be got over with, as a result, as an end, but rather as genesis, growth, essence. Form as semblance is an evil and dangerous specter. What is good is form as movement, as action, as active form. What is bad is form as immobility, as an end, as something that has been tolerated and got rid of. What is good is form-giving. What is bad is form. Form is the end, death. Form-giving is movement, action. Form giving is life." Paul Klee
New Art Basics puts a primary focus on the formation process. Exploring
the sources for creative design, the form-giving process of graphic ideation,
and the universal and global reasons for creating form, the New Art Basics
project explores, in its participating classrooms, the unique and specific
contributions that artistic thinking adds to human cognition and knowledge
acquisition. Form, the focus on the art object, is the result of the formation
process, well executed. New Art Basics focuses on understanding the formation
process, in operation, in the K-12 classroom.
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