THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY WERE (1) TO TAKE BIBLIOGRAPHIC INVENTORY OF RESEARCH CONCEPTS AND METHODS IN CREATIVITY AND THE ARTS, (2) TO TEST A NUMBER OF THE CONCEPTS AND METHODS IN AN EXPLORATORY EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE THOUGHT PROCESSES AND PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF ART STUDENTS, AND (3) TO FORMULATE A NUMBER OF ISSUES, CONCEPTS,…

This article briefly describes the Aesthetic Eye Project, a federally funded inservice program of the Los Angeles County Schools. It also explains the concept of aesthetic perception developed by the project and discusses how this concept can be applied to unified arts teaching and the teaching of basic skills. (SJL)

Outlines four exercises for high school students to demonstrate how people perceive color differently because of changing light conditions, varying viewpoints, and the viewer's preconceived notions of color. Maintains that an artist can use color perception to control a viewer's mood. (KM)

Through the use of black and white photographs and drawings interspersed with narrative, this text attempts to foster awareness and appreciation of art in the life of the Lakota Indians. The concepts of space and mass are illustrated. The result of combining masses and spaces into various forms of sculpture (bas relief, monolithic, mobile,…

Argues that arts education should be a basic subject in the school curriculum because perception which is a key characteristic of art education is basic to intelligence. Outlines three phases of research concerning spatial ability and theories of perception. Highlights higher education's role in the relationship between arts education and general…