Jean DubuffetThe Grand Arab (He Only Has Sand), 1947

Children, Art and the Development of Creativity

of rhythm is imageof image is knowingof knowing there isa construct

Charles Olson, ‘ABCs (2)’, in The Collected Poems of Charles Olson

Viktor LowenfeldCreative and Mental Growth

Stages of Artistic Development

The Scribbling Stage (2 – 4)The Preschematic Stage (4 – 7)The Schematic Stage (7 – 9)The Dawning Realist Stage (9 – 12)The Pseudo-Naturalistic Stage (12 – 14)Adolescent Art (14 – 17)

Cy TwomblyThe First Part of the Return to Parnassus, 1961

Scribbling (2 – 4)

Random or disordered scribble

Controlled scribble

Naming of scribble

Consuelo, age 4, Cicero/Berwyn

Preschematic Drawing (4 – 6)

Joan MiróThe Policeman, 1925

From kinesthetic to imaginative thought

Not all scribbles are created equal

Michael Chesworth, Rainy Day Dream

Anyel, age 4, Cicero/Berwyn

Jesus, age 4, Cicero/Berwyn

Male, age 3Slovenia

Female, age 3, Japan

Schematic (7 – 9)

Henri MatisseApples, 1916

Girl, age 6 ½ I am Standing in my Backyard

Boy, age 4, Brazil The Family Stroll

Roger BrownMuseum without Ceiling, 1976

“The art museum is one of the places that give us the highest idea of man.”André Malraux

Paul Klee, age 10The Stork’s Nest on the House, 1889

Dawning of Realism

Female, age 11Standing in the Rain

Male, age 11A Visit to the DIA

Male, age 12

Mapping with preschoolers, Cicero/Berwyn