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To: Win Smith who wrote (243)	12/17/2002 1:24:37 PM
From: mistermj	Respond to of 603

re:Even Blind People Can Draw [Fascinating piece,nice find Win.I can't help but wonder if the theory "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" may be the explanation.I have the book and have gone through some of the exercises that force one to switch to right brain drawing....its an interesting and powerful theory in my experience.Here are some links and examples that are well worth looking at if interested.One of the exercises I found most interesting was turning a picture upside down and then drawing it.It seems to force right side brain drawing ...drawing what you see....not the symbols for what we see...ie.stick figures ect.] theory:http://www.drawright.com/theory.htm exercises:http://www.drawright.com/vaceface.htm gallery of before and after drawings of students:http://www.drawright.com/gallery.htm

To: Win Smith who wrote (243)	12/17/2002 6:01:31 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 603

Hi Win Smith; Interesting article. I'll give my humble opinion on the subject, about which I admit to know nothing. Re: "But if that's true, why did it take Italian artists well into the 14th century to develop what Carcione came upon through intuition? It's still a mystery, but Kennedy theorizes that it has to do with the fact that many blind people, out of necessity, develop an acute ability to imagine physical space. In other words, visual artists before the Renaissance were too bedazzled by sensory overload to grasp the fundamental architecture of pictorial space. If only one of those medieval painters had thought to close his eyes." Part of the transformation required to take a normal human and to transform him into an artist is to change the way he uses his visual system. When you look at the pictures drawn by children, you will see that they are representational. That is, the figures are drawn not in order to as closely as possible imitate a photograph of the scene, but instead to show the elements of the scene. The relationship is similar to that between a satellite photograph and a map. The map is not an attempt to show what the scene looks like. I think that to paint realistically, one of the things you have to do is to overcome this natural tendency of the brain. You have to look through your eyes as if you did not know the character of what it is that you are looking at. For example, instead of seeing a flower, you have to see a collection of red colors, with shading. You have to ignore the hidden or implied attributes of the world and instead focus only on their visible and explicit form. -- Carl