for Adolescents and Adults
Volume I - Years 1 and 2
Paul Gierlach
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Description
Dynamic Drawing for Adolescents and Adults is a four-year program of creative interaction with forms that are drawn in the air. Every Waldorf high school teacher is capable of creating a Dynamic Drawing sequence of 12-14 classes for a block. In fact, these forms make artists of us all! In the first year we concentrate on seeing and changing forms; by the last year, we feel the impulse for the form. That is to say, we live for a moment or two in the flexing etheric world.
In Dynamic Drawing the teacher draws a form in the air -- perhaps this one . . .
that the students see . . .
and visualize . . .
and replicate on a piece of paper.
In Year 1 and Year 2 that form, and many others, will be mentally enlarged before it is drawn; it will be diminished, will be rotated, will be mirrored, and, finally, it will be the impetus for a significant social-physiological awakening. All forms are rendered as two-dimensional in these first two years.
Dynamic Drawing for Adolescents and Adults includes guidelines for use by teachers and homeschooling parents of adolescents. It is equally helpful for adults who want to see more clearly and confidently what they see.
“You will see that Dynamic Drawing can lead to the self-initiating creating of healthy forms, that is, forms that can lead one from the cognitive-perceptual of the sensory realm to the individual-communal aspect of the etheric. The students are led to the moment when, out of their own awareness of line and self, they can create healthy forms. And healthy forms can be healing forms.
Yet, above all, realize that if you are not having a good time playing with the adolescents, you cannot succeed with Dynamic Drawing. Be prepared to enjoy it all, for Dynamic Drawing is an artistic activity and good for the soul.”
Format: PDF, 94 pages.
Dynamic Drawing for Adolescents and Adults is offered free of charge to any and all who find a need for it in their classrooms or lives.
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“From the ideas presented by Rudolf Steiner . . . it is evident that form drawing has a stimulating and strengthening effect upon our human life forces, radiating thereby a harmonizing and animating influence into the physical organism itself. In this time of ever-increasing intellectualism in our culture and technology, even in our human relationships, we find in form drawing, as in eurythmy, a quite special therapeutic aid for strongly counteracting the chaotic, prematurely hardening, even deadening influence to which our growing children are now exposed.”
Margaret Frohlich and Hans R. Niederhauser, Form Drawing (Spring Valley: Mercury Press, 1984).
Example showing the beginning of Year 1, Day 1
Paul Gierlach
Paul has been a Waldorf teacher since 1979. He initially worked in the grade school before migrating to the high school as a humanities teacher. For the last ten years of his full-time teaching, he developed protocols for teaching students with different learning styles.
Paul also created this four-year curriculum called Dynamic Drawing for Adolescents and Adults. Volume I: Years 1 and 2 is now available, while Volume II: Years 3 and 4 is currently being prepared for publication.
