It was not until I saw "Cultivating Children from Painting" that I had a new understanding of children's painting and the behavior of children's painting. For children, painting is not only an artistic act, but also an expression of beauty, which is the organic connection and combination of "hand, eye and language". Especially for older children, the position of language in painting is particularly obvious. The life, situation and story of children's painting far exceed its artistry. Simply put, children mainly express their inner thoughts by drawing lines, figures and colors. And reproduce the stories in life, while the elements of creating beauty and expressing beauty are relatively weak. Beauty is an advanced emotion. Only when children reach a certain age will they pay attention to the beauty shown in works of art, especially paintings. Therefore, in childhood, children's painting, creation and other art education must follow the law of children's physical and mental growth, and can't be eager to achieve success and blindly pursue adult skills training. Only in this way can the value of education last and last, and endless artistic creativity can be produced when it reaches an appropriate age.
How to follow the law of children's physical and mental growth and educate and guide children's painting? Cultivating children from painting tells us some rules and methods.
First, the significance of "speaking" and "listening" in children's painting
First of all, teachers, parents and other adults who guide their children must change their ideas. Children's paintings are not for appreciation and viewing, but mainly for listening. The book tells us that "seven-year-old children are gradually able to draw' paintings that can be understood at a glance', and they no longer talk about the contents of paintings as before". This shows that after the age of seven, children gradually mature in painting skills, and can truly reflect the true colors of objects through painting, which is what we usually call "painting very much." So, before I was seven? Children's painting is based on their own life experience and observation of things, and expresses their stories in a way that they can understand. Therefore, in the face of children's paintings, we must let children "speak" and "speak" and adults "listen" attentively. Diary painting is a good way to understand children's painting.
Second, the stages and laws of children's painting development
In the process of children's development, children's painting will go through three stages: random graffiti period, mainly hand movements; The meaningful graffiti period of hand-eye combination; A purposeful painting period that combines hands, eyes and language.
(1) Graffiti period (before the age of two)
During this period, children's hand muscles are weak, usually centering on shoulders and elbows, and then centering on wrists, and constantly doing reciprocating movements. Their graffiti usually begins with drawing dots, followed by spiral graffiti and vertical graffiti in continuous circles. It embodies the development process of children's motor function from big movements to small movements, from shoulders to the end of the body, from elbows to wrists. In the meantime, we can provide a place for children to paint freely and independently, so that children can express themselves and fully develop their hand movements and control ability.
(2) the meaningful graffiti period of hand-eye combination (two-three years old)
When a child is two years old, he can draw a line while visually measuring the length of the line and stop writing at an appropriate position. There are wires in graffiti, wires and closed circles. Unlike one-year-old graffiti who doesn't know where to start and where to end, children begin to draw clear lines from beginning to end. Then, the children began to "explain" their works. These are the characteristics of children's paintings at this stage.
During this period, children rarely use language actively, mainly by combining hands and eyes. On the basis of providing children with sufficient free painting environment, adults can consciously guide children to say what they are painting, or guess what they are painting, which can enrich children's imagination and further combine language.
(3) the period of purposeful painting combining hand, eye and language (after three years old)
Children around the age of three don't explain their paintings after doodling, but consider the meaning of each line while drawing. This is a feature of three-year-old children's graffiti, which can be called "planning activities". After three and a half years old, children do meaningful graffiti activities, and at this time, they finally ushered in the stage of creating meaningful graffiti works.
At this stage, the characteristics of children's painting are: line representation, head-foot portrait, anthropomorphic expression (animism), coexistence expression and perspective painting. In short, children of this age have begun to paint with a purpose. Although the painting is not very mature, they can see what they are painting on the basis. Before painting, children will think and make clear the content of the painting. According to the characteristics of this age group, on the one hand, adults should enrich their children's life experience, take more children to observe nature, discover the characteristics of things, and take more children to play with friends; On the other hand, it is necessary to enhance children's language expression ability, accompany children to read more, and try to choose books related to life experience to enrich children's language. On this basis, let the children reproduce the game scene through painting and tell it in language. On the basis of children's "speaking" and adults' "listening", we can further understand the content and inner world of children's painting, further stimulate children's desire to paint and express, and promote the healthy growth of children's body and mind.
Third, think.
I am glad to meet this book when my child was young, which gave me a new understanding of my child's painting behavior. In the future, there will be more specific methods and specific methods to guide children to draw. At the same time, it's a pity that I didn't meet this book earlier, so that I didn't provide good guidance and support in the stage of children's unconscious graffiti. On the contrary, I adopted the wrong method, which led to my four-year-old son's lack of initiative and boldness in painting methods.
I remember when my son just consciously doodled, I saw him doodle and always wanted to give him a correct demonstration. For example, when he paints, I will draw concrete things on his drawing paper, such as the sun and small flowers, and tell him that the sun is round and small flowers have five petals. Slowly, after two years old, my son began to lose interest in graffiti while practicing hand-eye combination. Every time he took out a pen and paper and asked him to draw, he said, "Mom, I can't, you draw!" " Or "Mom, draw me a train!" Thinking began to be limited by specific things, and I lost interest in painting at will. This is a serious mistake my son made when he was growing up. I taught him to draw concrete things.
The second mistake is that the painting environment provided for my son is too standardized and single. For example, every time I draw, I first take out a piece of A4-sized paper, an oil pastel, a watercolor pen and so on. The size of a child's painting is limited, so I formed that he can only study on a small piece of paper. After reading this book and listening to the advice of Merrill Lynch's studio teacher, I posted a piece of paper on the wall, hoping that he could draw at will. As a result, on the wall, he was still confined to an A4 and couldn't let it go.
Although I came across this book a little late, fortunately, the children are not old enough, and it is not too late to change my mind in time. At present, my son is four years old, and his language expression is clear and coherent, and he can say one thing clearly and coherently. I think diary painting may be a direction for me to guide him. Try to listen to his story carefully after he finishes painting, and then help him record it to make his life more experienced and expressive.
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