Grade 11/12 Artistic Thinking Skills

Artistic Thinking Skills - Are You the Chosen One?

Students gifted in visual art display the following skills and capabilities:

• Perceptual Discrimination:
  the ability to perceive and differentiate through the senses with acute awareness. Perceptual Discrimination Artistic knowing begins with fine-tuned sensory awareness. Young visual artists view the world with acuity, aware of dimensions of space, colour, and textures unseen by those who simply look.

• Metaperception:
  the perceptual/cognitive process of internally manipulating perceptions with expression.
  
  Metaperception is the artistic parallel to metacognition, a term used to describe mental monitoring in cognitive thinking. This artistic knowing or intelligence, has been referred to as thinking with an aesthetic sense, qualitative responsiveness or qualitative intelligence. 

• Creative Interpretation:
  the process of reworking and refining metaperceptive decisions resulting in a unique, personalized statement.
  
  As a student works metaperceptively through an art medium, the artistic interpretive process ultimately unfolds. The more the student reworks and refines her work in the arts, the more artistic the interpretation.

source: http://www.growminds.com/TheArts/GTinArt.htm

Task:

In this drawing task, I would like you to complete a portrait of your partner using conte on grey paper.  As you complete this task, I want you to consider the information you have read on this sheet.  These thinking skills are what artists of above average ability demonstrate.  View your subject with acuity…don't just simply look.  Can you internally manipulate perceptions with expression?  Can you create a personalized statement in your piece by reworking and refining your decisions?  

I look forward to sharing your results with you!

Here is some student work from this lesson: