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17 April 2018
LBS 405
Chapter 3 is all about the visual arts, visual arts include: design, art production, paper/canvas
work, photography, drawing, illustration, and painting (Jensen, pg. 49). Visual arts have been happening
since the beginning, there has been evidence of artwork in caves over 1.5 million years ago, art is
something built into our minds. It has been said art begun before the spoken language, humans have
always had visual art programed into their brain, before language. Visual art helps to construct meaning,
it represents a world that is not done through the basic curriculum, there is more room for creativity and
growth through art. There is a healthy emotional expression when art is being done, and it can help
develop growth in other subject areas. Higher test scores, critical thinking, problem and solution, stress,
disability, and overall mental health is what visual art can do for students.
Visual art allows the brain to see creatively, the brain is constantly challenged by a series of
problems that visual art can help solve. By drawing, visualization and planning actions come about, which
can help students analyze, build vocabulary, and they can clarify their ideas better, drawing can begin as
early as 3 years old. With visual art, students can represent what they want to see, this helps with
expression and release of stress when students are free to represent their feelings metaphorically and
physically (Jensen, pg. 60). Students can learn skills that are used through a wide variety of occupations
in life such as: dentist, graphic designers, repair persons, and neurosurgeons (Jensen, pg. 54).
Implementing art into the classroom can be done through giving out sketchpads, where students can solve
problems, find resolutions, and create graphic organizers. Teachers can role model the joy of art,
introduce the 3 aspects of art: pleasure, functionality, and study of art (Jensen, pg. 66). As educators, we
must integrate the arts into their curriculum, this giving students the opportunity to actually create art, not