The Pleasure of Complexity in Pictorical Language: Examples in a Painting Class

Abstract

From an academic approach the complexity of visual thinking is studied from the summary description of five types of content that have been associated with artistic production. They have been analyzed separately in the headings entitled: Narrate something interesting; Generate beauty; Develop creative capacity; Transmit a sensitive, emotional or sentimental content; Play with the language. In each of these sections a high degree of qualification can be achieved, but it is the confluence of several of them in the same image that attests to the complexity of visual thinking that can be exercised and developed through the practice of painting. To exemplify some aspects in this article, images made by students of fine arts have been incorporated. They usually come from unpublished reports that are made in painting subjects. It is, in summary, a reflection on the complexity associated with visual thinking that can be found in painted images, and the limits of rational analysis are also evident to cover it completely.