What the dictionary says: Thinking characterized by the ability to use concepts and to make and understand generalizations, such as of the properties or pattern shared by a variety of specific items or events. Hmm ...what does this mean to an artist? Art is a purely visual medium in that you have to see it to understand it, maybe understand is too open, you have to see it and react to or form your own opinion about it. Whether you love it or you hate it or whether it simply d