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Theories of Art Development Paula Juliana I. Navarro III-2 BECEd Art by Carl D. Dalumpines

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Theories of Art Development

Paula Juliana I. NavarroIII-2 BECEd

Art by Carl D. Dalumpines

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ArtIn the context of early childhood education, art usually refers to the creative process as applied to two-dimensional graphic arts – painting, drawing, print making – and to three-dimensional modeling arts – using clay or play dough, creating sculptures.

-ability or power to create-characterized by originality and expressiveness

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History of Art PsychologyHeinrich Wölfflin

A Swiss art critic and historian. The earliest to integrate psychology with art history.

His dissertation Prolegomena zu einer Psychologie der Architektur (1886) attempted to show that architecture could be understood from a purely psychological (as opposed to a historical-progressivist) point of view.

Wilhelm Worringer

•Provided some of the earliest theoretical justification for expressionist art.

•Concept of empathy – our own sense of beauty comes from being able to relate to the specific work of art (from Lipps). Mimesis is not an inherent urge in artistic production: that stylized art is not because of a culture's incompetence to create realistic representations, but rather reveals a psychological need to represent objects in a more spiritual manner

imitation of the real world, as by re-creating instances of human action and events or portraying objects found in nature.

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John Dewey

His Art as Experience was published in 1934, and was the basis for significant revisions in teaching practices whether in the kindergarten or in the university.

***Manuel Barkan, head of the Arts Education School of Fine and Applied Arts at Ohio State University, was influenced by the writings of Dewey and explains in his book, The Foundations of Art Education (1955), that the aesthetic education of children prepares the child for a life in a complex democracy.

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 Theories of

Art Development

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Psychoanalytic Theory

Proposes that children’s art emerges from emotion and reflects what they feel.

“Children draw what they feel and that their art is a reflection of deep inner emotions.” (Cole, 1960).

Art is an expression of the unconscious and can be interpreted to give insight into a child’s personality or emotional state.

The use of color, size, line, shape and space as well as the complexity of art, convey meaning that a psychoanalyst might read.

Use of finger paints and clay are examples of common early childhood activities that stem from the psychoanalytic theory. These activities allow children to release emotion and express themselves freely.

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The reason children draw daddy so tall is not because this is what they know, but because they feel daddy is so powerful and looms so large in their emotions.

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Sigmund Freud (Psychoanalysis) wrote a book on the artist Leonardo da Vinci, in which Freud used Leonardo's paintings to interrogate the artist's psyche and sexual orientation. Freud inferred from his analysis that Leonardo da Vinci was probably homosexual. However, the use of posthumous material to perform psychoanalysis is controversial and furthermore, the sexual background of Leonardo's time and Freud's are different.

Carl Jung (Analytical Psychology) collective unconscious and archetypal imagery – The surrealist concept of drawing imagery from dreams, and the unconscious, stream of consciousness in writing and painting.

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Perceptual Theory

Suggests that children draw what they see.

Part of the perceptual process involves translating a three dimensional object into a two-dimensional drawing.

A drawing will focus on what the child perceives as the most important features of the object because our eyes see more than we consciously perceive.

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Arnheim believes that children do not see objects as the sum of observed parts, but that they see wholes or total images structured by the brain. Perception is learned, or at least can be improved, through training in visual discrimination. Thus, teachers should try to strengthen and improve children’s visual perceptions by asking them to look at and observe their environment more closely.

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The International Criminal Court is accepting supporting

evidence of children's drawings of the alleged

crimes committed in Darfur.

One young artist named Aisha said: "It is very kind to send us food, but

this is Africa and we are used to being hungry. What I ask is that you please take the guns away from the

people who are killing us."

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Children draw as they do, not because of any one factor, but because of several.

One such factor is the child’s readiness including physical development, intelligence, perceptual development, and cultural dispositions. A second factor is the psychological environment, in which the child works, including the degree of threat or support, as well as the number and intensity of rewards and punishments present.

Perceptual D elineation Theory

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A third factor relates to how children handle information the ability to handle details and to organize and categorize information coming from the environment. A final factor deals with how children’s drawings are influenced by their ability to manipulate the art materials, as well as their creative and inventive ability.

Advanced by June McFee.

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In a nutshell...Kids draw what they see, what they know, and what they are feeling.

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Never give up on your art!

Love, PJ

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