<\/p>\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve taught a couple of classes of the kind that fall under the category of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153drawing for idiots and the genetically uncoordinated.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d They were for those who had convinced themselves, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t draw myself out of a wet paper bag to save my life,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or who misguidedly lamented, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t draw a straight line.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Anyone can draw a straight line, the question is, why would you want to? And the fact is that just about anyone can draw, and they can do it better with a little training. <\/p>\n
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Natalie Angier offers an evolutionary rationale for that fact in her article, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Dance of Evolution, or How Art Got Its Start<\/a>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She cites art scholar Ellen Dissanayake who claims that:<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 art did not arise to spotlight the few, but rather to summon the many\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a notion that provides a welcoming perspective, to say the least. Dissanayake explains the roots of the creative process of creating art in the mother-child formative relationship. Although dance as an art form figures prominently as the example in the piece (a challenge for me, given that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t \u00e2\u20ac\u0153get\u00e2\u20ac\u009d dancing. To one insistent white-haired guest at my son\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wedding who repeatedly urged that I should dance with my wife, I asked, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do you <\/em>dance?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d To which she replied, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh, yes! I do!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d To which I said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Then why don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you <\/em>dance with my wife?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) the message is clear: grab a pencil, break out the watercolors, borrow a glop of your kid\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s play-doh, dust off the old high school band instrument, sign up for an art class, or put on some music and dance around the room like an fool. Art is in your genes. <\/p>\n The image “The Blind Man Receives His Sight” is copyright (c) 2007, Israel Galindo. All rights reserved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve taught a couple of classes of the kind that fall under the category of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153drawing for idiots and the genetically uncoordinated.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d They were for those who had convinced themselves, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t draw myself out of a wet paper bag … Continue reading 
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