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Series:   Elements in Child Development

The Child as Visual Artist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2022

Ellen Winner  and
Jennifer E. Drake
Ellen Winner
Affiliation:
Boston College Massachusetts, Harvard Project Zero
Jennifer E. Drake
Affiliation:
Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Summary

This Element focuses on the development of drawing (and painting) in childhood. The author begins by examining children's representational drawing, a topic that has received quite wide attention from the nineteenth century on. The author then turns to issues that have received far less attention and discusses the aesthetic property of expression, weighing the claim that young children's highly expressive drawings bear an affinity to twentieth century modernist art. The author then examines the function of drawing for children's emotional development. Next, looking at art prodigies, the author turns to the how of drawing, considering the relation of drawing talent to IQ and to visual-spatial skills. Finally, the author considers the relation between development and education in art and how educators can best nurture children's artistic development.
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Series: Elements in Child Development
Online ISBN: 9781108937207
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Print publication: 12 May 2022

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