Vigostky, emotions and art. Contributions to artistic education

Abstract

This article acknowledges Vytgostki’s visionary thinking as a contribution to the comprehension and strengthening of the artistic education. It highlights Vytgostki’s considerations on how art can be viewed as an emotional educator from a holistic approach as well as his observations on the development of imagination, his influence on creativity and on artistic expression as activities that integrate emotion and thinking. Due to his early death and other political issues at the time, the brilliance of this man was poorly recognized. Many of his considerations support the formational role of art as a means for the construction of symbols, and therefore as a means of interpretative knowledge where intuition and reason work together. When contrasting these considerations to the contemporary understandings of Cognitive Psychology, the work of this man is more contemporary than ever.