Regarding children's art, the most important thing is to stimulate their interest and creativity, through different materials, let children "express" their own thoughts, and stimulate children's desire to express. Or through the painting game, the basic modeling elements and colors stimulate children's visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile and other senses, stimulate children's interest in art, and form a preliminary perception of "beauty". The signal of the sensitive period of children's graffiti Many parents see that their children fall in love with the paintbrush, they feel that their children must have a talent for painting, must not be wasted, hurry up to apply for a class, it is best to take a level, for the future to increase the "weight" of the school. Your child falls in love with the brush, maybe it's a talent, but it's more likely that his "painting sensitivity period" is coming. Authoritative data show that 3-12 years old is the "painting sensitive period" for the vast majority of children. When children arrive in the "sensitive period of painting", they often express their feelings by graffiti and painting various paintings. This is a supplement to the child's imperfect expression ability, and it is also a way for the child to give full play to his imagination and the child's unique creativity. At this stage, what parents should do is to accompany their children to "play" and draw.
"The greatest value of children's art lies in creation. Not skill. Xue Wenbiao, director of the Shanghai Museum of Modern Children's Art, has been engaged in creative art education for many years. In his view, children should only start to learn the basic skills of traditional art such as drawing, sketching, modeling, and chiaroscuro after the age of 12, and there is no point in learning too early. "Children are different from adults, and the basis of childhood should be: color, composition, cognition, bold expression, and mastery of various painting tools and materials, including watercolor, gouache, oil painting, charcoal, ink and so on." In the West, Creative Fine Arts = Free Painting Professor Paul Devotu from the École Supérieure des Arts in France believes that "free painting is to advocate not to teach children what to draw specifically, so that they can play freely." "When free painting first came out, many parents didn't understand it and thought it wasn't serious. But in France, the children of that year are now parents and are fully receptive to this method of education. Free painting can be said to have been rooted in their minds, because it can 'awaken' people's creativity.
The "basic skill" of painting is not sketching, not watercolor, but creativity.
"If a child wants to draw a truck, he will always find his own way, which may not be the traditional practice, but it is likely that because he can't do it in a traditional way, he will have an unexpected idea." The advantage of creative art is that it is a very narrow road to learn painting skills alone, and creative art is to bring children a kind of understanding and perception of life, a solution to problems, which can be applied to any field of future work and be used for a lifetime. Maybe not every child can become a very creative person, but at least it can become a person with a lot of feelings – knowing how to appreciate various works of art and have their own unique vision, which is to improve the quality of life, not to make a living.
Accompanying children to "play" and draw young children, parents can use the game to import, the bag, chair and other objects in the form of rubbing on the paper "draw" down, let the children add several strokes on the irregular "surface", and eventually become different animals, characters, things, this imagination is orderly, there is a goal, there is a story scene. Slightly older children can play "three-dimensional borrowing". For example, a shoe that doesn't look like a big mouth? Plus two eyes, like what? Any kind of object can make children think of ways to "transform". The tools of creative art can be limited to any kind of brush. Paint with the back of various leaves, knead the paper into a ball as a brush, slowly print various patterns on the paper, you can also use the cut surface of various fruits or vegetables as a brush; you can also print the pattern with your finger, and then draw various "accessories" on the finger print.
To cultivate children's creativity, what should parents do most? Home often have white paper and a variety of tools, so that children can start to create immediately when they have ideas, when the child takes the work to show you, do not ask what it is, what it is, this is not like that, always positive energy to encourage him. For children's painting, it must be clear that creativity is much more important than "drawing like"! Do you remember? Our original intention of letting children learn to draw is not only to cultivate children's inner imagination, creativity, appreciation and beauty perception ability, but more importantly, to let children become a person who knows how to think independently and understands beauty.
2022.3.26