Anna-Maria Schirmer understanding creating / ERKENNTNIS-GESTALTEN

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

“The brush saves the things from chaos.“ (Tao Chi)

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Points of characterization of knowledge through the arts:

•  Fluidity and ambiguity

•  Fusion of emotion and cognition

•  Embodied cognition

•  Individualised form

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Pictorial diary (Projekttagebuch)

Structure of the art lessons

2 lessons: art history and reception of art

2 lessons: project work

1 lesson: techniques

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Pages of a pictorial diary, showing different decisions concerning the composition

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

“When I started my first journal I had a very clear idea, just like I was used

to. I have an idea, and I think it through and finish it in my head, without any actual drawing. Only

once everything is done in my head, I realize this final sketch from the idea in my head. So actually I never really changed anything except looking at some details. I was completely fixed

and limited to this one idea.“

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

“This is how it works: She lies in this cloud, with the thoughts surrounding her, like in a bed, almost buried - I also thought it is as if she were diving into this cloud.

It's like breaking the surface of the water from above. And doing this, you dive into a totally different world,

which makes your thoughts weave into each other, so you are away from our normal world, making some sort

of a transition.“ (excerpt from interview)

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

“At the beginning I found it rather difficult... well, first I liked the idea, and I was a bit confused. Because

really it's just, I copied but it's not, it hasn't moved me, in any case. So I said to myself now I've copied it

faithfully but somehow something's missing, somehow the emotions aren't quite present.” (excerpt from interview)

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

The facial expression carries emotions to the outside

world and transforms energy into movement, often failing to communicate the intensity

of these emotions. Every face is linked to a mood.

> making internal feelings visible:

visible waves of mood each face has a colour that

matches the mood, for example rose-tinted glasses.

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

“What I wanted to do was to emphasize the feelings that are in there with colour and the stroke of the brush. The pencil sketches lack vivacity. The photos too. I studied Arnulf Rainer's pictures, for example, who works a lot with the brush strokes and through them reinforces feelings, and that's what I wanted to use in my pictures.” (excerpt from interview)

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

Anna-Maria Schirmer www.die-ideenwerkstatt.de Understanding – Creating: on the gradual generation of understanding through creative processes

widening  of  ways  of  depic/on  

transi/on  to  Seeing  

understanding  of  ambiguity  of  ar/s/c  forms  of  

expression  

ability  to  reflect  and    decide  ar/s/cally  

adequate,  gestalt-­‐oriented  use  of  ar/s/c  means    

readiness  for  procedural  work  

detachment  from  conven/onal  imagery  

understanding  of  shape  as  a  means  of  expression  

detachment  from  verbally-­‐dominated  structure  of  ideas