By Pavel Machotka
That portray is not less than partly an expression of the painter's character is apparent from the diversities among very impulsive and extremely managed painters - among the work of a Picasso, for instance, and a Piet Mondriaan. yet those adjustments haven't been checked out in a managed surroundings. during this ebook, Machotka units out to appreciate the photographs produced by way of a wide pattern of scholars and to attach them to the scholars' internal lives - to their interpersonal family, their needs and fears, their impulses and inhibitions. Their picture making used to be intimately and their character was once studied in a protracted medical interview, generating a wealthy, person photograph of the fashion and substance of the interior lifetime of every one. Then the photographs have been grouped into seven kinds through cluster research. the private facts have been discovered to slot the picture clusters heavily: for instance, photos with little shape and masses narration have been produced through individuals with powerful compensatory longings, whereas dense, collaged pictures have been made via individuals who exercised relentless regulate over one significant factor of their existence. different participants had a robust have to combine their lives and produced well-formed, well-composed photographs. As anticipated, no unmarried reason defined all creative job - however the variety of the pictures, resembling their inhibited formality, abstractness, or fluid boldness, mirrored what should be referred to as the map of every participant's interpersonal world.
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Painting and Our Inner World: The Psychology of Image Making
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He's not an artist or anything, but he's got a creative mind, like for poetry. He's a good listener. He's stubborn, I'm stubborn. " She adds that they both like to push people's buttons, but that he does it a lot more. "He can be pretty stimulating; it can be very uncomfortable sometimes .... He wants to get people excited. He likes to see the excitement. He likes to see people in touch with their inner emotions .... " To this picture of an intrusive father, whom she now understands and accepts, one must add the intense and controlling mother.
He also told us something about his father, with whom he attempted to build a relationship, but who refused. We should emphasize that he said all of this without any specific questions or prods; the focus of this brief interview was on the image making itself. He then told us something about the waterfall. " In his frank way he put his attachment to his mother and his feminine identification forward, and helped explain the content of both parts of the image immediately. Later, in the psychodynamic interview, we asked him about some of these themes more systematically.
There were, of course, many areas of the participants' functioning that could not be revealed to us in the brief time we had together1 or would slip through our net through mistakes, but enough was available, as objective fact or psychological datum, for us to feel felt we had a convincing psychodynamic interpretation, however limited, on each person. EXPERIMENTERS AND IMAGE MAKERS Given the requirements of the undergraduate psychology program, we were able to use senior psychology students as experimenters for a year in return for independent study academic credit.