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Re: childhood art experiences

From: Anna N. (anna)
Date: Tue Jun 13 2000 - 18:29:27 PDT

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    Howdy,

    I had a wonderful elementary school art teacher, though we only saw her for
    a half an hour once a week...then once every two weeks, and when I was in
    third grade we ahd none, then fourth grade she was back again. We did
    observation drawing where she explained to us how to SEE, and then draw.
    We did geometric designs, cartoons all sorts of things. I think we did one
    clay project.

    Middle school was also once a week, a nutty Gal was my teacher, who had
    little control of the classroom, but was a sweet woman. We didn't do clay,
    but did do lots of drawing, some painting and I vaguely remeber some
    pastels.

    High school, well, wasn't really an art program. It was "Come in and find
    something to do, if you have nay questions I'm here". I f you did ask a
    question, she often would come over and try to draw on your artwork-which I
    hated, so I rarely asked her things, and if I did I asked her to put her
    arms behind her back...really. She was a wonderful person, not a good
    teacher. No class control here either, kids would lock each other in the
    closet, throw anything that wasn't nailed down. etc... I usually went in
    during lunchtime to work on things...it was a lot quieter then.

    So by the time I reachesd college I had little instruction in how to see,
    to draw what I see, to put things together, and knew few terms
    (elements/principles) and near zero artists (except for those I looked into
    on my own which were quite a few....but no teacher ever showed us works)

    I think while schools are getting better about improving these areas,
    colleges often lack the teaching component of HOW to draw. Then comes the
    Artphobia from many. Its quite sad really. They often just tell you what
    to draw, and let you work in the studio, but few I ever had did I see
    actually instruct how to look at things so they make sense from the 3rd D
    to the 2nd.

    hope this helps
    good luck !

    Anna 

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