Shape art activities have been found useful for small kids, pre-schoolers and differently abled children for coordination skills and fine-motor training of hands and fingers.
For adults to rehabilitate their fine motor movement of hands after injury and persons with psychic disorder, shape art with scribbling and doodling filling and decoration can work as art therapy under the guidance.
I, at an age of post-seventies, have been creating shape-artwork for improving my visual intelligence and keep my brain active. Not only it has proved fruitful leisure time activity as an elderly person but also brought me some recognition in the 'non-art use of art' as well in the area of visual art (see inset visuals)
"Many special educators are of the view that artwork with paints, water colours and crayons etc. should not be taken on the pretext that 'no art is wrong'. It is held that for special children, it tend to reinforce their current unconscious behaviour from which they are needed to be weaned away. Rather, non-art use of art should be done encouraged for their cognitive development as well as correct writing utensil grasps and visual motor coordination," says Dr Kishore whose work in shape art has been recognized by ART HOUSE - an international group of visual artists.
Dr Kishore's research paper on 'non-art use of ar' was selected for an international conference on education held in Hawaii, US, in 1017 (see inset document page)
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