Art makes people aware of "seeing." "Seeing begins with to see what is reflected in the eyes, and further, we are able to see the essence of it. Thus art leads us to the real figures of things and people.
With the sudden changes of the Western art in...
Art makes people aware of "seeing." "Seeing begins with to see what is reflected in the eyes, and further, we are able to see the essence of it. Thus art leads us to the real figures of things and people.
With the sudden changes of the Western art in the early 20th century, view on the children also changed. As juvenile paintings were attributed to some artistry, we came to admit mental and psychological sides of juvenile paintings to a large extent, It is not that their paintings are mean and of no value, but their innocent feelings and lives are expressed in them. To develop these is the aim of art education. The soul of Juvenile paintings is the free expression of children's own feelings and thought. They can develop the self-expression, emotions and originality of their own.
Various trends of art in the early 20th century, Klee (Paul, 1879-1940), absorbing these trends but not indulging in one of them, at last constructed most original style of work. He was called for by the surrealism, but didn't inspired. He shows multiple aspects of geometrical abstractionism, dreamlike symbolism, and cubism, In this regard, he can be said to have shown the diversity of contemporary art. There appears the childlike factors in Klee's paintings. This is the evidence of his efforts to approach the essence of subject or form in relation to the juvenile paintings.
This article begins with Klee's sympathy with juvenile paintings as away to approach the essence of art. It aims at studying and applying it to the art education : what juvenile inclinations do his works have, what similarity is between his works and juvenile paintings, and how did they influenced him in the formative aspects? Especially, I focused on the line drawings, the first motive of creation, and on the children's drawings in their pre-symbolic and symbolic period among their developing stages, in which the characteristics of line drawings appear fully.
It gives an cutline of juvenile paintings and contemporary art at first, then compares and analyses the characteristics of juvenile paintings and works of Paul Klee, who stands for the contemporary art. At