Chapter 8: The Prehistory of Written Language: "There's also a story about Picasso in which someone asked him why he didn't draw representational images. Picasso asked the man for an example of what he meant, so the questioner produced a photograph of his wife. Picasso then asked the man if his wife was really 5 centimeters tall, two dimensional, was nothing but a head, and had skin tones that were shades of gray (Picasso also famously said that when he was a child he had drawn like Raphael, but it had taken the rest of his life in order to learn to draw like a child)."

Monday, February 16, 2009

Down the rabbit hole...

Lecture No. 4
My creative teaching adventure begin on non-descript school day in 1966 when a white rabbit made out of a handkerchief led me and my students down the creative rabbit hole. Similarly, in Through the Looking-Glass and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice impulsively follows the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole and goes through the glass over the mantel and into the Looking-Glass room. Later, in both stories, this initial impulsiveness becomes tempered through experience.

Traveling through he looking glass is an important part of artistic development. Impulsive trips into the creative rabbit hole should be encourage by teachers and parents. With time and experience theses flights of fancy will yield a creative mind.

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