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Post by el Gusano on Nov 3, 2007 14:26:15 GMT -5
Just an idle observation, but when I'm at the gatherings at which I'm expected to be as an artist, I'm the lone conservative there. Now, I live in an arts community, and about the only conservative artists that I know besides me are the three ladies who run Morning Star Studio, and the man who taught me. (He doesn't live here, so he doesn't really count.)
Also, right in line with old wives' tales, most of the artists are left-handed.
What are the correlations between handedness and creativity? What are the correlations between creativity and political bent? One artist, who I get along with splendidly in spite of our political differences said that it's because they feel instead of think. (I've often thought that, but it was considered insulting when I stated it.)
But, I've also noticed that most other artists create beauty that stands alone. I (and the ladies) have to create beauty that "fits in" to something specific. IOW, a friend of mine who paints, can simply paint a beautiful picture and someone will come along and buy it. I have to go take measurements and photographs (well, the photos simply help me) and come up with something that will be beautiful there in that spot. I do sell some stuff that is simply created, hangs in a gallery, then someone comes along and buys it, but for the most part it's the other way around.
Any thoughts? This is just idle conversation and not intended as something deep.
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Post by Dreamwebber on Nov 3, 2007 17:39:53 GMT -5
For what it's worth I am left handed and couldn't draw if my life depended on it. I do enjoy sewing and needlework....but, I have patterns for that.
FWIW there have been studies done in the topic you speak of and one theory is that right-handed people are thought to process information using a "linear sequential" lefties process through visual simultaneous. In other words righties have to focus detail by detail and lefties look at the overall picture and process. they actually can process more things at once at the same time whereas righties have a harder time with that.
I personally write and do most things with my left hand....obviously I live in a "right-hand" world so, my mouse is with my right hand, I cut with my right hand (I have never been able to cut well) I drill with my right hand. FWIW......that is one of my big pet peeves power tools seem to be geared towards righties.
My left eye is my dominant eye too which can hurt me sometimes when I use my sewing machine, and I use to have a problem target shooting because they don't seem to make left handed guns ...or I don't have any left handed friends with any anyway. (I don't own a gun)
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Post by Daze on Nov 3, 2007 19:08:09 GMT -5
Although a significant number of artists are left handed (myself included) the idea of left-handedness and creativity is a myth at least in part. Alot more on that here if you're interested. It definitely didn't come naturally to me that's for sure. It was something I had to work at for quite awhile. |
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Post by el Gusano on Nov 3, 2007 19:18:32 GMT -5
Dreamie, there are left-handed guns out there. Ask me how I got the scar over my eye some time...
As to linear thinking, stained glass requires both an overview to develop a pattern, but linear thinking to make it. It's like a giant puzzle that you have to put in the pieces in a particular order. Pieces like the dog that I did, took an "impossible" sequence to assemble, so that was kind of linear and kind of an overview.
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Post by Dreamwebber on Nov 3, 2007 22:46:57 GMT -5
Do you draw out a pattern and then go through piece by piece to put it together. Or do you just put it together? I wonder if you took a lefty and a righty and gave them an identical puzzle to put together which person would become more frustrated first? If while doing the puzzle you were not allowed to go back and see the finished project on the box I would think based on the info of our thought processes the Righty would be more frustrated. If the puzzle had distinct dark and light sections and distinct coloration differences I would think according to the theory that a lefty would be more successful and less frustrated but, if the picture was all one scene with no color differations and no distinct patterns the lefty would be more frustrated. I don't have the patience for puzzles so, maybe there is some merit to the theory lol BTW Daze, I took the left/right mind quiz and I came out 75% right mind. I am not surprised I am not in my right mind 25% of the time  |
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Post by el Gusano on Nov 4, 2007 0:20:21 GMT -5
I draw out an idea in a sketch, enlarge it, make it workable for stained glass (and occasionally end up with an "impossible" cut), number them, cut them out, then put them together from the bottom right to the top left. Most righties go from bottom left to top right, but a lefty taught me, and I had an established habit before I figured that it's easier the other way.
I'm working on about 50 pieces for a Christmas bazaar, and a couple of them are being simply "just put together" partially, but they are 3-D pieces that don't have to fit a specific frame size or outline.
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Post by Daze on Nov 4, 2007 20:11:42 GMT -5
It's funny because as I was taking that quiz I knew the outcome each answer would produce. But answering them honestly mine came out to 55% which is probably about right for me.
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