ART DEVELOPMENT

1. Artistic Development In Children

2. Physical explanation
 Limited physical development and lack of
coordination determines what child produces

3. Emotional explanation
 Content and style of children’s art is indicative of
their emotional make-up, personality,
temperament and affective state.
 Child draws significant events and people

4. Perceptual explanation
 Child draws what he perceives rather than what
he sees.

5. Cognitive explanation
 Child’s art & style indicative of general
intelligence
 Concept formation and perceptual analysis are
reciprocal processes- knowledge of object
improves ability to observe details- while
observation increases knowledge

6. General Development
explanation
 Incorporates social, cultural, personality,
environment and physical, emotional, cognitive
and perceptual explanations

7. Stage Sequence Approach
(holistic)
 Important to know stages in order to:
 Understand where child is developmentally
 Set appropriate expectations
 Use as a framework for evaluation
 Appreciate both the process and products of
children’s artwork

8. Stages of Artistic Development
 Scribbling and mark making (one to two
years)
 Pictorial/Pre-schematic (two to four years)
 Realistic/Schematic (four to six years)
 Realism (five to eight years +)
(ages are approximate and overlapping)

9. Scribbling and Mark Making
 Disordered and random (exploration)

11. Scribbling (cont’d)
 Controlled, Named, Shapes

16. Pictorial/Pre-Schematic

17. Children become concerned with
creating art that looks like something

20. Things floating in space

22. baseline

23. Realistic/Schematic

24. Children want things to look right, i.e.. The way they
look in reality

28. Realism
 More attention to detail
 More ability to draw according to plane than with
baseline
 Objects drawn more accurately

29. proportion, depth, shading and
details