Implications of Brain Laterality and Dominance for Art Education

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Concentrating on Detail (Parsing)

Analytical Drawing

Labeling What you Draw

Literal Meaning

Hard Work

Discipline

An Emphasis on Achievement of a Final Form or Product (the project)

Design

Classic Art

Planning

Striving Toward Goals

Object Based Logic: "How things look real"

 

Writing, Analyzing, or Talking about Art

 

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Laying out Composition
 
Gestural Drawing
 
Drawing What you See
 
Poetic Meaning
 
Inspiration
 
Imagination
 
Emphasis on the Process of Formation (ideation)
 
Fine Art
 
Romantic Art
 
Visualization
 
Living/Creating in the Here and Now
 
Internal Coherent Logic of Visual Form "It works visually."
 
Doing Art

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