Drawing and the Brain Discussion
Drawing and the Brain
Drawing is micro-movement and the synchronizing of eyes and hands. It is "thinking with our bodies" and a way to develop cognitive skills and processes.
Drawing, whether from life or memory involves relationships, articulations, and connections.
In a recent collaboration, an artist and a surgeon worked to find similarities in their respective crafts. The following correlations between surgery and drawing became apparent. Both relied on:
- thinking of how to respond to sensations
- thinking about how you are moving
- fine-grained temporal and spatial analyses
- thinking about where you are
- gestural tasks
- performative tasks
Parting note:
The confidence to draw in whatever method is relevant to the individual student. "Good drawing" does not belong to a specific group of students. Instead, we should use drawing to understand our past, construct your future, and to build new neural pathways.
Excerpts from "Drawing Connections", Brew, Fava, Kantrowitz.
Drawing, whether from life or memory involves relationships, articulations, and connections.
In a recent collaboration, an artist and a surgeon worked to find similarities in their respective crafts. The following correlations between surgery and drawing became apparent. Both relied on:
- thinking of how to respond to sensations
- thinking about how you are moving
- fine-grained temporal and spatial analyses
- thinking about where you are
- gestural tasks
- performative tasks
Parting note:
The confidence to draw in whatever method is relevant to the individual student. "Good drawing" does not belong to a specific group of students. Instead, we should use drawing to understand our past, construct your future, and to build new neural pathways.
Excerpts from "Drawing Connections", Brew, Fava, Kantrowitz.
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