The artistic development of children is amazing, even if only due to the difference between every child. Learning to walk is an amazing accomplishment, but once you've learned to walk, run, skip, and hop it stops, and its the same thing that most everyone else does. As long as there is effort put into it artistic ability never stops, it only slows down. To most children art is just a fun activity, its not homework or a useful skill, it is done so willingly and often causing their ability to grow and change with every picture. Golomb talks about the symbolism in early child art explaining a drawing of an object may look nothing like the object. The imagination that is necessary to create a symbol, such as a circle with three dots representing a face, is incredible and seems like something that is lost somewhere between childhood and adulthood.
through teaching, babysitting, and just general interaction with children I have noticed a large amount of overlapping and moving objects which I never thought much of until reading this chapter. Golomb explains the need that children have to show the full object which I am now recognizing now in adults as well. I know I personally still move objects both physically and only in the image to draw the entire thing or just a part that I find the most attractive.
I found this chapter to be very insightful and enjoyable to read and am very excited for Saturday art school to begin.
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ReplyDeleteAdrian,
ReplyDeleteI liked how you compared children's artistic development to their physical development. I'm currently taking a developmental psychology class and we are learning about the stages of development that a child goes through. I thought it was interesting to compare the developmental stages to the artistic stages Golomb discusses. I think it's really cool to see what art skills they have developed and then compare that to what is happening in their brains that allow them to create new things like symbols or patterns.