What is Art?

2. and your
BRAIN

3. Did you know???
• The brain is the consistency of soft butter
or Jello!
• Your brain is a muscle and you can actually
burn calories when you think?*
*Just THINK, you can trim up when studying for a test. How cool is that!

4. Did you ever really stop to wonder
what’s going on in your brain?

5. YOUR BRAIN
What can we observe?

6. YOUR BRAIN
LEFT RIGHT
HEMISPHERE H HEMISPHERE
has two halves

7. Left: Right:
Sequential Simultaneous
Brain Functions

8. Left:
Right:
Sequential Simultaneous
Brain Functions
Likes to see things
In order, one thing
At a time
Likes to see everything
all at once

9. Look at these letters:
REDOR
What’s going on in your brain right now?
Does the word make sense?

10. Maybe it’s because the words are out of

11. ORDER
REDOR

12. Look at this face

13. Now try to REMEMBER the face.

14. Now try to REMEMBER the face.
Are you imagining just the nose?
Or ONE of the eyes?
Only the mouth?

15. Or are you remembering ALL of the
features at once??
Which side of the brain do you think you
are using?

16. Or are you remembering ALL of the
features at once??
Which side of the brain do you think you
are using?

17. Left: Right:
Sequential Simultaneous
Abstract Concrete
Brain Functions
Ideas, thoughts,
reflections.
Things that actually
ARE. What we see.

18. What do you actually see?

19. What do you actually see?
What do you know?

20. Left: Right:
Sequential Simultaneous
Abstract Concrete
Logical Emotional
Brain Functions
Based on facts Based on feelings

21. Look at this picture and notice
what your first thoughts were

22. Look at this picture and notice
what your first thoughts were

23. Did the face look sort of ?
Which side of your brain do you think was
REACTING?

24. Brain Functions
Left: Right:
Sequential Simultaneous
Abstract Concrete
Logical Emotional
Hears text Feels context

25. When we say something, our left brain
hears the sounds but our right brain puts
the sounds in context or, puts the words
together with the picture. So the same
words can have different meaning
depending on the picture.
For example…

28. The right hemisphere is the picture;
The left hemisphere is the thousand
words.

29. YOUR BRAIN IS
CONTRALATERAL
LEFT RIGHT
HEMISPHERE H HEMISPHERE

30. YOUR BRAIN IS
CONTRALATERAL
LEFT RIGHT
HEMISPHERE H HEMISPHERE
Both sides work together. Did you know…

31. The left side
controls the right

32. and the right side
controls the left

33. Raise your right hand.

34. Raise your right hand.
Which side of your brain do you
think you were using?

35. Tap your left foot.

36. Tap your left foot.
Right or left brain ??

37. Who do we probably consider to be
the person with the smartest left
brain in history?

38. Albert Einstein

39. Have you ever heard of Einstein’s
famous equation E=mc ?2

40. Have you ever heard of Einstein’s
famous equation E=mc ?
Well, it all started with Einstein
imagining what he would see if….
2

41. he were riding on
a beam of light!

42. Why talk about brains in art??

43. Art is good for your brain

44. Art will help you to use your whole
brain and make you
smarter

45. Think of art as creative

48. where your brain might take you!

49. Some elements in some of the images were
used from Clker.com