School Instruction in Art

Munro, Thomas

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“…Published in the middle of the Second World War, at a time when most interest would not have been in predicting drawing accuracy, the study conducted in 1943 describes data collected between 1922 and 1930, a decade or more earlier (and in a footnote, the author “regrets the delay in publication of this report” (p. 41), occasioned in part by a desire to describe further results, of which it is said, “the supplementary studies [will be reported] separately later” (p. 41), although there appears to be no evidence of these later investigations). The article has been cited but five times, once by us (McManus et al, 2010), once in a bibliography, and also by Dörken (1954), Goodenough and Harris (1950), and Munro (1946), none of whom took the study further.…”

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Cain’s house task revisited and revived: Extending theory and methodology for quantifying drawing accuracy.

Chamberlain¹,

McManus²,

Riley³

et al. 2014

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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In 1943 Theron Cain studied art students' ability to draw a series of simple two-dimensional shapes, and found this ability to be correlated with formal drawing assessments at art school. This provided evidence that some aspects of drawing ability could be quantified, and that performance on simple drawing tasks could predict higher level attainment. The current study sought to validate Cain's findings by exploring the validity of shape analysis techniques for measuring drawing accuracy and by measuring reproduction of angles and proportions in a rendering and nonrendering task. Drawing accuracy derived from shape analysis methods was found to be correlated with subjective rating scores of accuracy. Subjective ratings were based upon holistic shape attributes for organic stimuli, and local shape attributes for geometric stimuli. The ability to represent simple angular and proportional relationships also related to higher level drawing ability in both rendering and nonrendering scenarios. These findings provide support for both the methodological approach and the theoretical implications of Cain's early empirical study into observational drawing accuracy.

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