Comments on: Follow-Up (and, To Sir Ken With Love) http://blog.art21.org/2011/02/09/follow-up-and-to-sir-ken-with-love/ The Official Blog of Art21, Inc. and the <i>Art in the Twenty-First Century</i> PBS series Fri, 17 May 2013 17:30:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Tweets that mention Follow-Up (and, To Sir Ken With Love) | Art21 Blog -- Topsy.com http://blog.art21.org/2011/02/09/follow-up-and-to-sir-ken-with-love/comment-page-1/#comment-28954 Tweets that mention Follow-Up (and, To Sir Ken With Love) | Art21 Blog -- Topsy.com Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:38:31 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=35783#comment-28954 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by atsu chukwu, Burning Eagle Art. Burning Eagle Art said: Follow-Up (and, To Sir Ken With Love) http://bit.ly/i8jLEn #art #edu [...]

]]> By: b, while doing something else http://blog.art21.org/2011/02/09/follow-up-and-to-sir-ken-with-love/comment-page-1/#comment-28950 b, while doing something else Thu, 10 Feb 2011 07:06:57 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=35783#comment-28950 Well, it brings me to finally comment. First : a discussion, would it be with a 12 or a 22 years old student, has more or less the same purpose : it is meant to create a movement. Neither the school pupil, nor the art student, and, even, the grown-up art-maker, can have some distance with its work. Discussing is bringing him to change his point of view, to look his work with a new eye. And by becoming a stranger to what he’s done, he can discuss what he sees.
For example, confronting the works of a classroom on the same theme is always interesting, everyone makes a jump to a higher level while seeing the others’ works.

Second, on the loss of creativity, I observed some differences between children : most of them stop more or less drawing when writing is learned, as if all the children’s scribbling were intended to that purpose. The more creative of them still draw, paint or whatever, with differences coming from the parents’ reception of it ; it’s the time to give it some importance. If parents don’t care, children drop it, and after that, what can a teacher do ?
Not much, but the teacher can bring back some of the joy of creating, the pleasure to discover new things, the happiness of doing.

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