Review the brain processes presented in this section and ask yourself:
"What type of strategies must a teacher use to help students learn to think like a disciplined artist?"
"If you wish to get the right hemisphere to contribute you must give the brain a task which the left hemisphere will refuse to handle." Dr. Betty Edwards
Being an artist involves both the processes of the left and right hemispheres. Art is a whole brained activity.
"The subconscious may greatly shape ane's art; undoubtedly it does so. But the subconscious cannot create art. The very act of making a painting is an intending one; thus to intend and at the same time to relinquish intention is a hopeless contradiction albeit one that is exhibited on every hand." Ben Shahn
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