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CHAPTER VII
Art Education
EDWIN ZIEGFELDI
THIS is the first postwar review of research in art education which cover
work conducted in a time of peace. Tho the summary by Munro and
others was prepared shortly after the end of the war it covered research
done primarily during the war period. Even tho the arts remained active
and vital during the war years, the return to peace brought with it
upsurge of interest and, as might be expected, a shift in emphasis. A
increasing interest in art as it relates to personality development an
to adjustment seems to characterize many of the writings and investiga-
tions, a situation which is doubtless a reflection of the unsettled state of
the world. There has also been much concern with the place of art in the
total educational program and with the role of art in furthering interna-
tional understanding. As reflected by the writings and researches of a
educators and investigators, this period was characterized by a resump
tion of interest in the arts in education and by the discovery and identif
cation of its role in education at all levels.
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the abnormal p
major resource
and achievemen
means of person
is a medium of e
one or more vi
equivalents are
individual then
everyday living
cedures art may
The most extens
was conducted b
work (3). Caref
ages of two and
tion to which tw
school year. Th
and relationshi
children and th
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selection, and m
the study appea
Waehner (93) r
fifty-five colleg
and scored on th
for certain typ
descriptive pers
were then given
of whom knew t
ing judgments f
upper eighties.
taneous drawin
a picture of an
In studying the
between person
study of the in
istered the Rors
male painters of
were brought ou
personality pictu
reliable criteria
of great value in
his work has fo
the presence of
successful paint
The revealing n
the Make-A-Pic
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of the dynamisms at w
were both empiricall
frequency of agreeme
Clark (20) also made
personality in a study
hospitalized mentally-i
illness. She found that
type of mental ailment
do distinguish between
a finger painting is n
diagnosis.
Elste (30) conducted a study in which she observed sibling relationships
during simultaneous finger-painting activities. Naumberg (66) reported
six case studies of the free art expressions of behavior-problem children
and adolescents as a means of diagnosis and therapy. All of these cases
have been separately published, the publishing date of one (67) falling
within the period covered by this review. These cases presented the
importance of art expression in psychiatric diagnosis and therapy. Naum-
berg pointed out that imaginative creative expression is not only a language
of communication but also a source of growth and sustenance in the life
of every individual whether he happens to be mentally disturbed or in-
wardly at peace with himself. Bender (10) also reported a case study of
psychotherapy thru art in which the subject was a Negro child. Bychowski
(16) presented a series of twenty-three paintings done by a woman and
analyzed and interpreted them in light of the medium in which the
woman was working at the time each picture was done. Pappenheim and
Kris (69) discussed the function of drawing and the meaning of the
"creative spell" in a schizophrenic artist and pointed out that the change
in the function of the artistic activity is understandable only in terms
of the delusional system.
Because of its complexity the creative process has not lent itself readily
to research technics. Since it is basic in presentday considerations of
art education it remains, however, a major concern of art teachers. In
addition to this fact the literature abounds in discussions of it. In develop-
ing teaching philosophies art educators have leaned heavily on the find-
ings in child development since it is generally accepted that there is a
close relationship between the stage of development of an individual and
his manner of artistic expression. Lowenfeld (54) indicated that the
child's general growth and his creative development are reciprocally
bound together and that mental and emotional growth can only be under-
stood and appreciated if the general causal interdependence between
growth and artistic creation is understood. He also developed a method
for art instruction which is based upon the psychological relationships
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which exist between the creation and the creator and which notes the
differences in these relationships at the different age levels. He described
the various psychological stages of artistic development and pointed out
their implications for art teaching.
Schaefer-Simmern (80) stressed the primary importance of the creative
process and developed a method of teaching which is designed to encour-
age the natural cultivation of growing mental powers as they operate
simultaneously and interfunctionally within the process of artistic activity.
As an individual grows in "visual conceiving" ability the work which he
can master also grows organically thru various stages from simple to
more complex organizations of form. Underlying the procedure just
described is the principle of natural growth. The posthumously published
book of Moholy-Nagy (59) is a further development of the approach to
the method of art education which was first developed at the Bauhaus.
Rannells (75) maintained that the sequence of preparation, incubation,
illumination, and verification which is said to characterize creative activity
is inadequate and stresses learning thru expression which he terms exter-
nalization. He stated that creative activity for adolescents is entirely differ-
ent than for young children and therefore demands different instructional
approaches. His publication on art education in the junior-high school
(76) was concerned with objectives and procedures which are appropriate
at that level.
In a study of the effects of alcohol on the personality and work habits
of twenty outstanding artists Roe (78) showed that all the artists were
above average in intelligence and had a much stronger tendency toward
abstract thinking than did the general public. In addition, most were sensi-
tive, nonaggressive persons. Born (14) discussed the unconscious processes
in artistic creation and presented a rationalization for artistic standards
and motivations which seemed to apply the terminology and concepts of
psychoanalysis to art.
Two studies were done on tests that involved the recombination of
ideas quickly and according to plan, the assumption underlying the test
being that the ability to manipulate ideas in this manner is one of the
many characteristics essential to artistic ability. Specifically, the tests
involved recombining words into sentences, making letters from lines of
different shapes, making a story from words presented out of order, and
making furniture out of blocks. Welch (95), using professional artists
and college students as subjects, found that two of the tests differentiated
significantly between these groups while the other two did not. Fisichelli
and Welch (32), using groups of college art majors, professional artists,
and unselected college students, found that there was no significant differ-
ence on the tests between the college art majors and the professional
artists, but that a difference did exist between each of these groups and
the unselected group. Except in the field of art no consistent differences
were found among the groups. Dreffin and Wrenn (26) studied the spatial
relations ability and other characteristics of art laboratory students.
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included in the M
A definitely favor
tion between the
(99) reviewed a n
ment on art aptit
a critical evaluati
cized all existing
complex of facto
writing from a gu
be an integral pa
might be include
he discussed the q
ventories and the
that he felt could
tery of four tests
and combining th
small margin of e
at Hunter Colleg
of the professiona
Aesthetics and
As was pointed o
developed in the
a descriptive aesth
trasted descripti
number of metho
profit by Ameri
dures for art pref
personal preferen
be any criteria w
art objects be arr
relevant to these
within a given cl
investigated cons
is possible to dev
relational theory
with evaluative c
classes.
Lee (50) concluded that the cultural lag in aesthetics is due to a mis-
conception of the problem in analyzing beauty. The scientist has never
freed himself from the theocentric view of aesthetics and the idea that
art is an echo of divinity. In discussing a psychological theory of formal
beauty Weiss (94) added a fourth formula to Freud's series, it being
that formal aesthetic pleasure is economy of psychic energy in perception.
Arnheim (7) took a Gestalt point of view in discussing perceptual abstrac-
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