. During the observation for this stage, I worked with a child I will call Joe, he is 12 years old. What I could relate to the Lowenfeld artistic stage is that the child is nonvisual because his work is based on subjective experiences. The child was very involved with his picture because he said he was drawing what he loved the most. This is also accurate with what Lowenfeld said about a nonvisual artist being involved with their work because it has a personal meaning to them. One thing that does not relate to this picture was that the child did not use any color to represent his emotion. I think this happen due to him not having time left.
Overall I think that the Lowenfeld stages were pretty accurate to what I observed during my observations
with each child. I think it is important to have an understanding of this stages so that we as teachers know what the child is trying to represent in their work. Teachers should plan developmentally appropriate activities with these stages in mind because all kids go through this stages as a child. These observations enhance my understanding of developmentally appropriate art activities by letting me see what is behind all the drawing kids do at school. I am used to seeing my niece draw and I think to myself “how does she feel about this drawing she is making?”. But now thanks to this observation I understand what each child is trying to demonstrate through their artwork.
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As the German painter and sculptor, Kathe Kollwitz conveyed in her statement that the art she created held the burden of transfiguration. The fixation of sorrow and hardship that occurred while she sat huddled with the children was the driving force of her drawings. Her realization that art could not only be an escape from the horror happenings in Germany such as the rationing of food and the starving-to-death children at that time was also a way to voice her opinion of change and revolution. It was the quest, in which she enamored in her drawings and it is this feeling that I value from it. I choose this artist because she delineated the various circumstances surrounding the human individual, she took into account perspectives that involved life with its tragedies, and the lives of little angel children. Her drawings and sculptures were prepared to emulate and capture what her eyes had seen while she was in Germany and this is why I had taken a likening to her drawings. The two artworks that I am specifying in this research paper is the drawing labeled “Germany's children starve!” and”Self-Portrait, Hand at the Forehead (Selbstbildnis mit der Hand an der Stirn)”.
The last stage is the beginning of the symbolic presentation. Children's imagination roams free, and they begin to understand the world through mental imagery and free play rather than the pure action of
She falls in Piaget’s Formal Operational Stage. In Erikson’s Stages of Psychological Development, DJ is experiencing Identity vs. Role Confusion. This is evident with her preferred trust of her peers rather than that of her own family. She is striving very hard to find herself by expressing self-independence. However, she is not quite ready to undergo such major life changing plans without the assistance of her adult family members. As far as Kohlberg’s Stages, DJ falls into the Social Contract Stage. She has the morals to do what is right and what is socially and legally
His theory is important because through the learning procedure, kids change their plans by adjusting to the world around them. Through watching kids, he developed his four stages that he believed children go through, which these stages are based on ages and the individual kid’s ability. The first stage is Sensorimotor stage which is from 0-2 at this stage movement and presentation is important. Along with what is stated before mental pictures start to shape while pictures of items remain engrained
In the second stage, preoperational, the child begins to exemplify the world with words and images that show increased representative thinking. They improve at symbolic thought, though they can’t yet reason.
...h these stages. They use this theory by applying what a child can or can't see, learn, hear and experience and it all depends on whether that child is at the stage where they can take in the knowledge that is being shown to them in a correct and positive manner.
The second stage was titled the preoperational stage. From the age of 2 through the age of 7, the mind of the child increases substantially toward developing the mental construction of familiar and regular objects which the child interacts with frequently. The concepts of such objects are only at surface level, meaning how the child has yet to comprehend the complexity of these objects. Furthermore, the child may automatically assume how their environment (namely, those around the child) shares their likes and dislikes. (DeWolfe,
He believed that children think in different ways from adults (Gordon & Browne, 2014). He developed four stages of cognitive development (Gordon & Browne, 2014). Each stage has a key concept associated with the stage (Gordon & Browne, 2014). All but the last stage are during the early childhood years (Gordon & Browne, 2014). The first stage is sensorimotor which is based on object permanence (Gordon & Browne, 2014). This stage occurs from birth to 2 years of age (Gordon & Browne, 2014). During this stage the child learns about the physical world and gains an understanding that when an object disappears, it still exists (Gordon & Browne, 2014). The second stage is preoperational and based on symbolic play and language (Gordon & Browne, 2014). Ages 2 to 6 or 7 years of age are at this stage of development (Gordon & Browne, 2014). During this stage children develop the ability and capacity to think (Gordon & Browne, 2014). This is when imaginative play develops (Gordon & Browne, 2014). The third stage during early childhood is concrete operational, occurring between ages 6 to 12 (Gordon & Browne, 2014). The basic concept during this stage is reasoning during which children develop the ability to think logically (Gordon & Browne, 2014). This stage helps children carry out actions mentally (Gordon & Browne,
Children from 2 years to 7 are most likely in this stage. In this stage children begin to start thinking more symbolical and learn how to use pictures to identify words. Children in this stage often struggle to see things from others point of view. And while they are much better at using language they still think about things in a concrete terms.
Starting with visual elements I saw lines, implied depth, and texture. I see lines by him using lines created by an edge. Each line is curved not straight but it works with the piece. By using this he creates the piece to make it whole. He uses many curved lines within the painting I don’t know if there is a straight line in the whole thing. The next element I saw was implied depth. Using linear perspective you can see the mountains but they look smaller than the rest of the piece. They are the vanishing point in the back making it look as if you can walk down and they will get closer and closer to you. The last element that I saw was texture. They talk about Van Gogh’s painting, The Starry Night having texture through a two- dimensional surface, in which this painting has that similar feel. Van Gogh uses thick brush stokes on his paintings to show his feelings. There is actually a name for this called, Impasto,
Children’s from this stage remain egocentric for the most part but to begin to internalize representations. (Piaget, 1999). Concrete operational stage is children to age seven to eleven. They develop the ability to categorize objects and how they relate to one another. A child’s become more mastered in math by adding and subtracting. If a child eat one brownie out of a jar containing six. By doing the math there would be 5 brownies left by counting the remaining brownies left in the jar because they are able to model the jar in their
A child’s drawing can tell so much about what they are thinking and feeling about their surroundings. They see things differently from adults and teens because when they are drawing or doing some sort of art they are not told that it is a “bad picture” or what ever they are doing is “not right.” They don’t have a limit upon their thoughts and ideas, but when they grow up, they do. Starting from the first day of school, they are taught about the wrong things and the right things. As we grow older there are more classes that have right and wrong answers to a question like, for example, math.
These two seemingly innocent statements (that can be found on page 27 and which I have taken out of context) undermine everything that I hold dear. There is a huge assumption in the first sentence that drawing, as a "skill", is innately obtained, especially when "no one has imparted or transmitted to the child".
During this stage, children begin to use language as a way of communication and their memory and imagination develop. They also engage in role play and in symbols which allows flexibility and planning in their problem solving skills. During this stage, children think that all people view the world as they see. They begin to remember past events and even imagine future events.