| Description: | At a time when concepts of education were being redefined in the late 1400s, Leonardo da Vinci recommended that in addition to reading, writing and arithmetic, all students be taught to draw. He was ignored, to the misfortune of later students. This course is an introduction to the vast area of the therapeutic possibilities of art and specifically of drawing. The course intends to transmit the experience of an artist to all students. Students learn that drawing is a perceptive attitude using all the senses, and dependent upon intuition and intellect. Indeed, we can learn this from those with sense deprivations: the blind draw unexpected and original drawings; the deaf have a special rapport with space, images and the act of drawing. Whether they are lifelong practitioners or have never drawn before, all students in the course will "start all over again", and under the instructor's guidance they will watch their personal art evolve. The course will enable students to translate their emotions into an expressive capacity. |