Uncategorized — art history

Art is important, for so many reasons.   Are you looking for more art in your life, or in are schools??  Read more to learn about the variety of residencies I provide. The arts help to expand cognitive abilities and develop creative thinking skills at a young age that will carry over through the process of education and into adulthood.  Creative problem solvers will be the next engineers, entrepreneurs, and innovative individuals.  We must train our students to succeed in education.  This means teaching to all of the various intelligences and allowing the most authentic voice of each individual to...

"We were all born artists, the trick, is to continue to be one when we grow up."  Pablo Picasso Beware of history and word origins, you might learn something! Our current definition of art is based on a Eurocentric view. “The modern use of art is derived from the 18th century philosophy of fine art and its focus on artworks that were largely created for wealthy elite, mainly the church and court (Brown and Dissanayaka).” Thus, “fine art” came to be known as an elite process whose product could only be obtained by a small percentage of the population. This is...