The following exercise is taken from the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards.
Please draw Picasso’s portrait of Igor Stravinsky upside down.
“This exercise is designed to reduce conflict between brain modes by causing your language mode to drop out of the task. Presumably, the language mode, confused and blocked by the unfamiliar upside-down image, becomes unable to name and symbolize as usual. In effect, it seems to say, I don’t do upside down, and allows the visual mode to take over.”
Please write about your experience on the back of your drawings:
Please draw Picasso’s portrait of Igor Stravinsky upside down.
“This exercise is designed to reduce conflict between brain modes by causing your language mode to drop out of the task. Presumably, the language mode, confused and blocked by the unfamiliar upside-down image, becomes unable to name and symbolize as usual. In effect, it seems to say, I don’t do upside down, and allows the visual mode to take over.”
Please write about your experience on the back of your drawings:
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Portrait of Igor Stravinsky. Paris, 1920.