A child between
4 and 7 years who is not pressed into anything and is ego-centered will express
its feelings through the charm and the spontaneity of very expressive drawings.
It is their way
of letting us know about the impression they get from the external appearance
of an object. But precisely what attracts us emotionally is their lack of
drawing skill, their esthetic sensitivity or their infantile sculpting manner,
their carelessness about details and their freedom to express relationships in
space.
A lively
drawing that can be sad, hateful or powerful within its simplicity can be the
sign of a work of art. Artistic sensitivity and esthetic perception increase
with age, and go hand in hand with becoming less egocentric and losing
originality
With privileged dynamism a child sings and
dances while painting this is called synesthesia handling easy translations
between the different sensorial systems in which colors evoke sounds and sounds
evoke colors.
This explosion
of artistic activity constitutes the central enigma of artistic development. ,
within this time of their lives occurs an easy and natural transaction between
mediums.
To express
ideas and new concepts make feelings alive, with excited traces, children are
able to produce personal big important abstractions through original
caricatures. Success and fame can be
developed at this time
An adult who
invents preschool metaphors lets go with unconscious processes, and tries
hiding the skill and dexterity of knowledge, must get rid of stereotyped
representations and conventions which he sometimes uses in order to attract the
attention of others, and which inhibit this precious freedom of a creative
child, who knows no such preoccupations.
Miró, Klee or
Picasso can be ingenious without copying children but must reduce forms to
simpler work, spontaneous and original. And always look for different
expressions.
On the other
hand, children who try to achieve realism can produce fabulous deviations.
An adult, in
his much desired and lost maturity must search for innocence and simplicity in
order to create new pre-schoolers’ strokes of genius.
A child between 4 and
7 years who is not pressed into anything and is ego-centered 
