JD750 wrote:
So one must be female, or be in touch with one's female brain in order to be artistic ????
Michelangelo, Monet, Picasso, DaVinci, Rembrant, Raphael, Cezanne, Van Gogh......
They didn't get that memo.
Methinks you are confusing right-left brain thinking with male and female genders.
For those who want to develop their artistic understanding, start with the above. Study their works. View the works in person if at all possible.
Viewing their works tells you what side of the brain they were using? Did you talk to any of those artists, or their psychologists, about whether they were using the creative female side of their brains while painting?
I'm not sure if you are misinterpreting "female side of the brain" and think I mean they were gay or what. Emotional sensitivity, ability to love and nurture, parental instincts, creativity, musical motor skills whether creative or just playing what has already been written, and much more come from the same side of the brain and females are far superior in these areas than most of us Neanderthal male side of the brain people.
If that offends your machismo studliness for some reason, that's too bad, but I personally put great effort into exercising the female side of my brain in several different fields of creativity. I lack nothing from the logical, mechanically-inclined, visual stimuli based, aggressive, decision-making, methodical male brain side but choose to compliment it with other traits that make me a better well-rounded personality.