The Right & Left Brain In Art - Ian Roberts

By looking at various paintings and sculptures, I explore the history of the Left Brain/Right Brain concept of creativity, and how that concept has manifested itself in our art and culture for thousands of years.
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[@juliapace2845]

I have never heard this topic spoken of in such an articulate manner. Many are called, few are chosen. I am grateful for your posts.

[@24cts]

Thanks for this articulation. I have often times fallen in the middle of rational linear ways .. and more expressive and poetic. This is helpful to understand it this way though - both for my painting and my writing. I love the way you teach - offering us the language THAN an example for us to see exactly the dynamic you just described.

[@holly_kay5570]

This makes so much sense to the way I am...the way I think and the way I create. Thank you Ian!

[@leticiachavarria9965]

I loved this!! Thank you very much!!!

[@gol622]

This was a beautiful description of the inner world of the painter 🙏💜💛

[@yuliakatkova84]

Wow... This is so clearly put. I never thought of that way about painting before you showcased it in this video.

[@chantelmcskimming6633]

Really nice!! Looks like fun 😊

[@Theodore042]

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for.

[@beadas1108]

Thank you for clearly taking me through this difference.. makes it easier to break it down in my mind
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[@apronhugsingreeenbay]

Very interesting. Thank you for this educational commentary.

[@yvonmelchior2189]

Sends me back to the comment I've just posted about planning and spontaneity...
Thanks a lot indeed.

[@lindajenkins4515]

I really enjoyed the video. Thought provoking. I often try to analyse "my style" but now I'm just gonna do what I feel and see what comes out on the paper. Liberating or what. Thanks.

[@gracie30ish]

Very insightful..your videos gives encouragement and inspiration thank you so much for sharing. It means so much for a beginner like me.

[@africancultureghettoking1019]

Very good

[@forgu1bl]

Thank you. Very interesting.

[@lisengel2498]

Yes truly inspiring and no doubt that these are important dimensions of every process of experience and expression - and its also a Scientific discussion about what is Consciousness and human experience and the intertwining of body-heart-mind-World - very well expressed e.g. by the French philosophers Maice Merleau Ponty and Gaston Bachelard who was very aware of the felt sense of language and of images and metaphors - and it is a very important subject in contemporary dance and somaesthetic understanding of the role of the Living body in the ways we are present in the experience of the now

[@lizettevelazquezgiraldes8091]

Thank you so much for sharing!!!!! Wonderful way to understand the relevance of Left-Right brain. I am myself a computer scientist that works on pyrography, prose, and most recently has started to venture into painting... Wonder how do you see this topic reflected in artists/paintings from other cultures (e.g. Africa, India...). Do you see the same extremes or, a different progression across the spectrum?

[@waylonwraith5266]

I love the idea that Walter de Maria “draws” with lightning, so that lightning becomes art [only?] in his field, just as wind becomes music [only?] when it trickles through a chime...

[@frankt722]

Thank you for your rational explanations. Everyone should hear this. The idea of rationality and irrationality as different parts of a whole is quite interesting.

[@petergamble6318]

You lost me at "Right & Left Brain". It's proven to be nothing more than pop-psych pseudo-science and you do a disservice to suggest otherwise.

[@mikesamovarov4054]

Yes, people use both sides. Almost never just one side of the brain. Sciences and arts are not separate at all, they are the same. Study science enough and you get to artistically created research and applications. But art also requires science, developing pigments, papers and canvases, colour combos which are waves, psychology to create certain perception and so on. ALL aspects of life and space-time continuum are connected. Nothing is separate in THIS specific universe! Only immature idiоts view left and right "brain" as separate, obviously.