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What are 4 things that inspire artists?

Four Sources of Inspiration for Creating Art Ordinary Experience. Most of children's spontaneous drawing fall in this category, often including some aspects of #3 below. Natural and Constructed Environment. Observational work fall's in this category. Inner Feelings and Imagination. ... Quest for Order.

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This "design" illustrates the qualities of repetition, of pattern, and variation on a theme . Subtle color changes fin the reds and blues add variety and interest to the composition while maintaining order and structure. It is strongly unified by similarities of different parts. The viewer's eye is led through the design by variations in color in each row. The dominate structural line points back and forth creating vectors leading the eye right, then left, then right. Finally, the upper left corner with its pre-literal graphic elements insist on being seen because they juxtapose a contrasting style. The child sent this postcard to her grandparents. It has a note on the other side (dictated to her mother who wrote it for her, and may have prompted her a bit). It reads, "I hope you're doing well. I would like to go to your house some week. Thank you for the Barbie and clothes." The artwork gives the child a means to express her feelings and give emphasis to her wishes. She is learning the values of her family and her culture. Furthermore, the child is learning the importance of her own status and how she has some control over her own life. Postscript: The child who painted the tempera painting at the top of this page has grown up to earn a Harvard Ph.D. and has become a published and award winning research scientist who has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Their children also loved to paint, model clay, and draw. While none of this proves the value of painting, drawing, and clay modeling as a developmental activity for young children, these kind of art activities combined with other favorable nurturing experiences certainly seem to be very beneficial. When children draw, paint, do clay modeling, and other original artwork; they are thinking about all kinds of options. They are learning to make choices, They are imagining how others will respond to their work (nurturing empathy). It can be very rewarding and motivating for toddlers to work with art materials. It provides the young brain many appropriate and engaging challenges dealing with more abstract mathematical and verbal constructs. It is extremely helpful for the child to get positive reinforcement for self initiated learning activities. Self-designed art projects provide positive self-image and the chance for affirmative feedback that results in continued self-challenging problem-making and problem solving. Parents who express an interest by asking children to tell them about their artwork are helping their children learn to think, to imagine, and to make their own discoveries. On the other hand, parents and teachers who prescribe too much , give too many directions, show children how to do too many things may find that the child becomes too dependent on others and is less self-sufficient. - END - also see: Essay on Art Classroom Rituals by Marvin Bartel Approaches to Art in Education, 1978. © Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, NY. pp 46-52. More Art Education Essays and Art Lesson by Marvin Bartel

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