EXCERCISING TOWARD CREATIVITY.High School The ability to see things differently is certainly one of the keys to creativity. But what is creative thinking and how can it be visualized? A good deal of creative thinking appears to be related to the power of seeing in terms of transformation. Creative visualization Creative Visualization refers to the practice of seeking to affect the outer world via changing one's thoughts. Although various spiritual traditions claim that our thoughts affect the outer world, the phrase "Creative Visualization" came from the New Age Movement. , however, is an even greater challenge than creative thinking because it is generally assumped that we all see pretty much the same way. This is manifestly evident when a group of students is asked to draw a bottle set up in front of the class. Students diligently dil·i·gent adj. Marked by persevering, painstaking effort. See Synonyms at busy. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin d record their perceptions and draw the bottle the way they think the teacher wants it to look. The results are pretty predictable. If the teacher asks the same students to draw a hundred bottles, their reaction is incredulous in·cred·u·lous adj. 1. Skeptical; disbelieving: incredulous of stories about flying saucers. 2. Expressive of disbelief: an incredulous stare. . Comfort zones are challenged and you see them begin to wake up. If they are asked to draw the bottles a hundred different ways, you can almost see minds beginning to work, or possibly panic. If you further stipulate stip·u·late 1 v. stip·u·lat·ed, stip·u·lat·ing, stip·u·lates v.tr. 1. a. To lay down as a condition of an agreement; require by contract. b. that the shape of the bottle must be maintained, but the graphic presentation of its form must be varied, you can see the creative machinery of the students' minds begin to churn as pencil is applied to paper. Visual thinking takes over and the concept of drawing begins to take form. While this concept is difficult to convey to students through language, it is made evident as soon as they begin to visualize how many ways there are to draw something as simple as the shape of a bottle. In this exercise in creative visualization, the students are asked to examine their many drawings of the bottle, and select the most significant visual image they developed. The process now shifts to the formal symmetry of the bottle, which is best expressed by dropping a plumb line through the middle of the bottle, demonstrating its bilateral symmetry bilateral symmetry n. Symmetrical arrangement, as of an organism or a body part, along a central axis, so that the body is divided into equivalent right and left halves by only one plane. . Combining this with the graphic image the student has created produces a strong gestalt Gestalt (gəshtält`) [Ger.,=form], school of psychology that interprets phenomena as organized wholes rather than as aggregates of distinct parts, maintaining that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. , demonstrating to the student how subject matter and form come together, producing content. ClipCard submitted by Richard K. Hillis, an art teacher in Scottsdale, Arizona Scottsdale (O'odham Vaṣai S-vaṣonĭ) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, adjacent to Phoenix. Scottsdale has become internationally recognized as a premier and posh tourist destination, while maintaining its own identity and culture as " . |
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