El lado derecho del cerebro y su implicación en el dibujo

Abstract

The work exposed below is about experimenting the called “draw with the right side of the brain” method, for which we realized exercises based on the book “Draw with the right side of the brain” by Doctor Betty Edwards, with school children aged 5, 6, and 7. Within art teaching in schools, we can see the lack of process that lead to a true learning of drawing, painting, etc In part, it is due to the fact that art is given a very minor role in primary education, it is even considered as recreation. To us, art with small children is an anteroom for the learning of writing and the understanding of the world around us, because it is based on images and geometric forms. Thus the work realized with the exercises of the alternative method “draw with the right side of the brain” which main goal is to teach how to get a real vision of the world in which we live, but not to have preconceived ideas of the objects that surround us. For example, when we put a table in front of a child and ask him to draw it, he will know that it is a table and collate the word “table” to what he has learnt about the concept “table”, he will not even look at the object but start to draw a square with four legs which is the plot he has in mind transferred directly to the paper, without even observing the showpiece. We will try, through this work, to teach how to draw in a different way to what is traditionally taught in schools, looking to break away the preconceptions of our brain to the forms we see, thus making a better job of drawing with patterns and/or showpieces.