The Draughtsperson

The research project The Draughtsperson studies the neurocognitive drives

involved in the activity of drawing. Between observation, representationand

creativity,thetechnical and artisticbrain organizesitselfinanoverlappingof

neuronalcircuitsandmentalproducts,which,byrecruitingdifferentfunctions

anddecisions,determinethequalityofthedraughtsperson.

The draughtsperson's thinking and identity are thus developed through

functions of sensory perception, visual attention, spatial construction,

proceduralmemory,operationalintelligence,culturalinterpretation,associated

motricity and gesture composition. The artistic modelling of the visuomotor

system is activated within these functions, feedback by intersections that

reconcile precision and transfer skills with the draughtsperson's practice of

deviationsandgraphicexpressions.

The organizationof functions also acquires particularities within the different

artisticmodalitiesandprofessions,inaspectrumfromobservationaldrawings

to project drawings, which serve as case studies. For example, in Portugal,

among other uses, the term Draughtsperson was used in architecture to

designatewho executedthe delivery drawingsand presentationofa project.

Withtheadventofthedigitalsocietyandthemigrationtovectorialdrawing,

despitethechangeinmediumcontinuingtomaintainthefunction,theuseof

the term returned to designate the conceptual and intellectual dimension of

thedraughtsperson.

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