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morfe

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Re: you don't have to!

Sep 24, 2003, 19:19

"Geometric doodling must come to mind before drawing people. Does it? Anyone got good info on that? Does it occur to kids to 'draw mummy' until someone asks them to?"

That's not easy to answer without knowing more of the question, I mean, are you specifically asking about cognitive development and skill of interpretation with regard to the learning child, or are looking to find a similarity between a child and ancient rock art?

If it's the former, then you expect scribbling and experimentation, where the child gets to know the medium, and lean about volitional non-interpretive connection between themselves and the medium. Once it becomes established that there is cause and effect, the skill may grow and join with observational and/or recollective efforts, a more conscious attempt at intepretation. This is where tuition becomes the rod that can spoil or save the child. Too-rigorous a methodology can harm the perceptual/instinctive process, too little makes us mix the paint back-down to mud. Drawing as opposed to painting is far more rooted in symbol, it's easier to simplify a concept with line, it becomes easily translated, universally.

If your question was the latter I believe it to be non-valid, but that's another thread!

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