Reading assignment

YOUNG IN ART A DEVELOPMENT LOOK AT CHILD ART - CRAIG ROLAND 190, 2006
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The Crisis of Realism

Age : 9-10 years

Methods:
- exhibit greater visual awareness of the things around them
- conscious of details
- proportional
- includes body part--> lips, fingernails, hairstyles, joints and etc
- people in action, poses, costumes and etc
- looking for the rightness of the drawing, whether propotional or not which end in crisis
- their efforts in expectation by themselves or by others and they often became disappointed
- some even gone into following or mimicking the adults in doing drawing or by copying from illustrations in books or magazines
- some also questions their own ability and not to their liking will be reluctantly engage in the drawing activities as they grow
- therefore in order to increase their emphasis on realism, it is much more beneficial if during their pre-adolescent years to give clear art instructions/focuseds on visual description and observational techiniques
- once attaining this realistic quality then they will be able to develop the competencies required

Three Dimensional Space
At this age the children is more concerned whether their picture resemble what they want to draw. This visual description or culture convention representing a three dimensional scene on a two dimensional surface.

There will be no:
- side by side on a baseline
- floating
- x-ray (transparent)

There will be:
- arrangement things drawn in relation to one another ground plane
- position of a viewer influences the image
- drawing of object overlap one another
- image diminish in size
- use diagonals to show perespective
- recession of planes in space
- organizing space

Visual metaphor and Expresive Imagery

Older children continuation into drawing symbolically despite the increasing concern for realism. The emerging capacity for abstract though enables them to conceiving of images as visual metaphors. To them using of metaphor = images to suggest their idea or emotion. Also taking into consideration --> colour, lines, shapes the best to represent the metaphor object.
Such as:
- isolated tree = lonelines/despair
- lion = superiority
- stag overlooking a range of mountains = nobility

They also began to understand that using visual metaphor --> can convey meanings.
In order not to dampen their creative spirit because of the awareness or concern of realism - they should be introduce themes such as expression of certain emotions or concepts. Example : imagine yourself as an animal/inanimate object which can represent themselves in their drawing.

In summary:

1st group --> 1-2 years
Scribble

2nd group --> 3-4 years
Shapes and figures emaerging

3rd group --> 4-5 years
graphic symbol to represent things encountered in their space/environment

4th group --> 9-10 years
Realism drawing

All the above changes did not come abruptly, rather, they are often marked by small sub-stages or points, sometimes you can have 2 stages in one drawing.