what do you think is the best learing enviroment for art and design?

Answer 1

Find some railings and sit behind them on a stool. That way, you can leer at anything you like without being interrupted.

Answer 2

The surrounding should have enough artifacts that you do not get bored of sketching / drawing / grasping / or just understanding the feel of anything.
There should be it should have an ample mixture of natural and artificial materials and objects, right from tables, chairs, glass, a pair of spectacles, to a row of flower pots with different kinds of plants planted in them, a tree where squirrels roam around. a natural backyard from where you can see far away till you see the horizon as a thin line just separating the green fields and the blue sky.
now this all goes well for ART, but if i talk of design you must have a designing sense within you, designing is never taught but is always developed. As DESIGN is always a SOLUTION TO A PROBLEM. so for this matter any close room which gives you enough time to think over a subject which is the problem for you stands good enough as an environment for learning. After all internet is the best made environment for anything. just type in your problem on google or any other search engine and get the results.
After all it depends on you how well you unleash the hidden capabilities of the environment available.
so enjoy your art and design, and love it.

Answer 3

You need to experience it for yourself. Example:

When I graduated from high school, I was given a trip to Europe. Being a typical teenage girl in the seventies, I was very excited to be going somewhere without my parents and siblings tagging along. Little did I know the impact that the trip would have on my perception of the world.

It was a whirlwind vacation that was totally supervised by nuns and chaperones. Thank goodness for that. We were all green kids with no knowledge of the world outside of our small communities in southern Louisiana.

While there I went to my first opera and ballet. I went to the Louvre and saw the Mona Lisa. In Italy I experienced David and the Pieta, St. Peter's Basilica, and an audience with the Pope.

I was too young to really absorb the meaning of all the art and architecture, but I remember vividly falling in love with the work of Claude Monet. At the time his wall-sized paintings from his garden were on display. The waterlilies too my breath away. To this very day I love impressionist paintings.

So I say that experiencing art in any form is the key to understanding. You can't truly know something till you become a part of it.

Answer 4

Where ever you get inspiration from. For me, I feed off of other peoples creativity so the class environment really gets me going. I can also find inspiration in many other places but I need the classroom environment to get me going first. So the best learning environment is a Art and Design school or institute, not a tech school/community college like I made the mistake of going to or even a university. But then you need to practice on your own too.

Answer 5

It is one where you are challenged, and most FE & HE art colleges will try and pick a mixture of abilities from the students in any one-year. The best method of teaching is to allow peer teaching to take place for students to inspire and teach each other.

As a lecturer of art, I try to avoid classes which will result in the students trying to produce the same result as other students, and as they have done the week before. I do this in several ways -

Life classes are good, the students are forced to sit around the model, and only contact with a couple of individuals each session, so you are able to move them physically, or if they resist your efforts, to position the model to challenge them.

Thus students, who do not attempt the feet or hands, will get those areas of the body in the middle of the composition from their perspective.

I also limit the materials, and force them to warm up with dry media first, which I control, so they try different mark making experiments before each true session.

The other method is to use different learning styles, to teach by example, to show images of similar artists, (but again only have a limited number of books, to force students to diverge - compare and re-experiment).

In session times, I put the students into groups, which are changed for discussions and other work, so they are forced to interact with others, and the studio space is constantly being disturbed, so they have time to go for a walk to see what others are doing.

When learning is fun, and constantly changing, - a challenge - the art student will capture something from the selection being passed under their nose, and start to develop a personal style in their own work.

Answer 6

Art College is only as good as your tutors. The best way to learn is to carry a sketchbook constantly for doodles, notes, sketches etc. and use it anywhere you feel comfortable. The key to great art is about absorbing your environment, using all your senses and self awareness. There is no best place, but alone is often good (as are train stations).

Answer 7

All of the previous answers are good, and I have found them all to be true at some point in my life, but one of the best and not mentioned is in an art class. You will see different styles, new ways of applying standard media, new perspective and new concepts of color. You will also have the added aspect of competition and time constraints, which no artist wants, but most artists need in order to become competitive and marketable.

Answer 8

For me the best environment is a busy one with music or tv in the background to help inspire u

Answer 9

It depends on the person.

For me I like to normally be in a crowd unnoticed in the city, so I can get some of the best ideas.

Answer 10

Somewhere peaceful so you can gather your thoughts, but also a surrounding where you can generate new fresh innovative ideas.... not sure 'where' this is exactly, but thats the best environment that would work for me.