As I read though the readings this week I couldn't stop thinking about what Ken Robinson said in a 2006 TED talk about how schools kill creativity. Robinson's point was mainly that schools tend to focus only on developing the left side of the brain (the mathematica, analytical side) and fail to engage the right side of the brain (the creative, visual side) and some students learned best by engaging the right side of their brain more.
While I enjoy my fair share of philosophical banter now and again, I found these heavy German writings hard to digest in context to how I relate to art as an artist. I enjoy engaging with the world intuitively, mainly from my right hemisphere, and to reverse my natural instincts and try to process what these writers were presenting felt uncomfortable and confusing. I did grasp what Vischer was suggesting when he described connecting with an art piece from a universal human perspective; but on a whole, dissecting art in this way as an intellectual takes away almost all of what I enjoy about art making and art appreciation.
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