Nadya Goest
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I think and write about art and creativity and psychological matters. I am also a visual artist and graphic designer. Life is so complicated, bizarre and amazing and I’m glad to be here to report on it.
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On the Intellect of Visual People
I think that there is a general assumption that visual artists are not that smart. Like perhaps they weren’t that good at things like reading, writing or math and that’s why they were left to mess around with their crayons instead of graduating past that like most people. In my career in design I’ve experienced some of the fallout from this mindset—being overly praised for writing a good email or the weird surprise from people if I have anything of value to say as if I only thought in color, shape and fonts. As a caveat to this, I will say that in my observations, there are differences in communication styles among “word people” and “visuals people” and that I’ve had to figure out how to bridge this divide so that I could survive and have any influence in a “word people” dominant environment and lucky for me I have been able to do it because I think I happen to exist in between these worlds.
By Nadya Goest4 years ago in Psyche
Why is Art Education So Boring?
I was talking to a musician friend the other day about our respective childhood art educations. It really struck me how the things we learned as young students have turned out to be pretty much at odds with the overall nature of art as we practice it now. As a kid, I remember spending a lot of time learning technical skills and principles like reading music, arpeggios, cross-hatching, color wheels; and then perfecting music pieces* and diligently completing art assignments. No class time or guidance was granted to the process of originating pieces that were personally meaningful to us and sprung from our own minds. That was a shadowy activity that wasn’t really acknowledged and sometimes even ridiculed by teachers.
By Nadya Goest4 years ago in Education
