DELIBERATE CREATIVITY: CREATIVITY ON DEMAND IN THE CLASSROOM & IN THE STUDIO, TOO.

By Trina Wilko

This primer for the untrained classroom art teacher or amateur artist who have little or no background in art. You will find the necessary tools for discussing and teaching art with kids. The reluctance of contemporary art education theorists to accept skill as a part of creativity is traced to the Platonic ideal of creativity as mysterious, inexplicable, and an unanticipated fundamentally free activity . The Platonic approach leads to a pedagogical practice that places emphasis on encouraging flexibility and spontaneity rather than skill and technique. Thus, the value of skill and technique is overlooked by the untrained art teacher who strives for the Platonic ideal. Yet, skill and technique are the stepping stones for creative self-expression; by teaching skill and technique an untrained art teacher can confidently teach the basics of art to the benefit of their students who will be able to make their creative ideas come alive in form. HIGHLIGHTS: identifies key research that defines and describes the connection between skill and creative production teaches how to apply well-known creativity stimulus models in the classroom explains essential art objectives for the untrained art instructor values COOKIE-CUTTER, step-by-step, art activities as stimulants to creativity uses the SCAMPER teaching model for stimulating creative thinking FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK The primary misunderstanding about the nature of creativity is the commonly accepted belief that one must have an innate gift or talent to be creative. There is a long-standing debate concerning the issue of creativity as an essentially free activity and a belief that concentration on the development of skills is inhibiting to creative output. This is not a new dilemma in the art domain and continues to prevail. It is a controversy that goes back to the Greeks. One view is that the basis of art is inspiration and that artists do not really understand what they are doing or how they do it; the other position sees art in terms of perfection of skills and the fundamental nature of art as technique. The dominant values in our culture are reflected in the quest for wealth, success, and upward mobility. With this attitude, it seems fitting that art is treated as a leisure-time pursuit. This familiar societal attitude towards art as an educational frill continues to be reflected in pedagogy today. Artistic creative ability seems to be taken seriously only when an individual demonstrates a gift, or genius talent. Literacy must extend beyond the skills of reading, writing, speaking, and listening to include multiple literacies such as visual and information literacy. The application of critical thinking skills combined with the tools of language or art provide fertile ground for creative problem-solving solutions in the classroom. Trina Wilko questions the significance of a connection between ski/I-mastery and creative output in all domains: visual art in particular. The step-by-step cookie-cutter art process benefits the untrained 'new to art' classroom teacher by promoting the development of a repertoire of drawing techniques and learning experiences to be applied on a climb to Deliberate Creativity: freedom of expression.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09YNBMSM9
• ISBN13: 9798809135382
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 100 Pages
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.2" x 5.0"