Open AccessNON-VERBAL REASONING IN FIGURATIVE TREATMENT A CORRELATION BETWEEN THE PROCESSES OF RESEARCH AND DRAWING: A CASE STUDY OF SADEQUAIN
Author(s) -
Umaira Hussain Khan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of social sciences and humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2664-4967
pISSN - 0257-4276
DOI - 10.46568/jssh.v57i2.30
Subject(s) - sensibility , premise , subconscious , literal and figurative language , scrutiny , psychology , process (computing) , representation (politics) , epistemology , mental process , hyperbole , nonverbal communication , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , cognition , linguistics , computer science , communication , art , philosophy , alternative medicine , law , literature , theology , pathology , operating system , political science , medicine , politics , neuroscience , metaphor
This paper draws a correlation between processes of research and drawing by analyzing the formation of emotional content and stylistic representation in art. The paper suggests that research process fundamentally involves a systematic development of understanding on a particular issue through a process of rational inquiry. The research outcome or an intellectual understanding is therefore nothing more than a thoroughly investigated form of a hypothesis/ premise/ theory/ idea that has undergone a careful process of scrutiny, comparison and evaluation. On similar grounds, drawing process also involves a systematic development of form in which adjustments are made with the help of nonverbal reasoning till the final form is evolved. The development of form in drawing becomes a systematic rational process but operates at a subconscious plane; reason is substituted by aesthetic sensibility. It is suggested that aesthetic sensibility is a judgment that the human mind tailors through the use of non-verbal criteria of evaluating the beautiful and ugly. The paper develops a theoretical model in the light of above and then applies it to analyze various drawing conventions used by Sadequain in figurative treatment.