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Once in class, I let my children draw a picture freely. The final result is shocking. All the pictures are surprisingly consistent. All eight paintings have the sun. The sun comes out from the upper right corner or the upper left corner of the painting and emits a series of lights, even the angle, size, shape and color of the painting are the same.
It is really worrying when a fixed pattern and concept become a matter of course for children to draw!
There are many similar patterns, such as: every painting is a blue sky and white clouds grassland. I asked at that time: Isn't there no grass in your school? Why do you want to draw blue sky, white clouds and grassland? The child replied: everyone paints like this, and I paint like this. I suddenly realized that there was a question: where did this fixed thinking come from?
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As I said before, I don't approve of Eva going to institutions to learn painting early in the morning. Because in painting, little dolls are all geniuses, and any guidance is killing children's aura.
Achievement of children's impromptu activities by Du Lai, a master of picture books.
Son, every painting is super brilliant.
Some people will say: it is clear that art teachers draw well, and art teachers are qualified to guide children.
Really? Let me try to say what "well painted" means.
The public thinks that a good painting is nothing more than "skillful technique" or "high authenticity" and "painting like everyone's work". Composition is more in line with the aesthetic law, and the image is closer to the imitation object. In a word, it looks "practiced".
PS: "Practiced" is translated into network language, which means "full routine".
The child's work is very skillful and complicated.
But really excellent children's works should not be like this.
Please look at the following excellent cases of creative wantonness.
What is painting? It is a generalization and imitation of reality. On top of this, if there is expression, it is a masterpiece; If there are emotional gifts, it is a boutique; If it goes beyond its present form and is unique, it is a master.
Generalization and imitation are stages of skill. For example, let you paint a portrait of the baby. You may find it a little difficult and don't know how to write. But don't you think it's easier for you to draw in front of the photo?
If a stick figure painter drew a cartoon portrait for Wa, would it be easier for you to follow the picture? After painting, I looked at it: Oh, I didn't expect my painting to be good.
From photos to stick figures, this is the process of continuous generalization. You see, some cartoonists paint like children's paintings, such as Naoko Takagi:
But it will be difficult for you to make your home so simple without learning her brushwork. Because people can't draw complicated pictures, they have been refined and transformed. For example, the perspective of her relationship looks different from that of the photo, because she needs to be properly deformed when representing this room.
You can copy Naoko Takagi's cartoons very well, and many people will think that a cartoonist like Naoko Takagi is "mediocre". In fact, if you draw one completely by yourself, you will find that you can't draw it at all. People just have a simple form of expression, but it is not simple at all.
Don't think that Naoko Takagi's sketch cartoons are easy. The title of "Queen of Picture Books" is not given casually.
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Students in the Academy of Fine Arts should be proficient in their own skills. How to achieve proficiency? Just a lot of practice. Students who used to enter the Academy of Fine Arts often went to places like railway stations, and a painting was a whole day.
Draw what? Draw people. All kinds of roles are skillfully practiced dynamically, refined and summarized just right, no more, no less. This exercise is to cope with an exam called sketch, and the rest is sketch and color. In short, it takes a lot of practice to achieve proficiency, so I won't go into details here.
In the process of practice, candidates will inevitably meet the standards of the Academy of Fine Arts. Under this pressure, of course, few people can remain free to express their feelings.
This is why Chen Danqing said that students in the Academy of Fine Arts were "painted to death" as soon as they entered the school gate.
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Let's talk about the baby next.
I wonder if you have ever observed children drawing. You will find that children never worry about their "poor painting" or how to draw without being disturbed.
Moreover, children have the ability to refine, generalize and even deform. The younger the child, the stronger the ability in this respect. You will find that when children start drawing pictures, they will naturally summarize their mouths as a line and their heads as a circle.
Although children's paintings are not similar in concrete images, they are free to express their understanding of the world with pens.
So children's paintings are very interesting and touching. This is the aura.
For example, this award-winning work deliberately narrowed the audience significantly in advance.
The principle of perspective is not emphasized.
Children draw more than adults, but their proficiency is different.
The ability of imitation, generalization and expression is higher than that of adults. Therefore, as far as painting attitude is concerned, every child is a genius-Picasso said so. He has a famous saying, "I can draw as well as Raphael at the age of fourteen, and I have been trying to return to my childhood painting state all my life."
Show you Raphael's paintings and understand Picasso's sentence.
Madonna on the chair, Florence Pitty Art Collection.
Vatican Museum Athens Academy
About Picasso, Picasso's paintings were exhibited at the China Millennium Monument many years ago. Of course, there are a sea of people, and many children who learn to draw go to copy.
There is a middle-aged woman with a ten-year-old boy copying a painting by Picasso. I heard a middle-aged woman say angrily, "What are these paintings? Smelly rascal! " (Many of Picasso's paintings are nude), she bowed her head and scolded her son: "Draw well! Look, you don't even look like a painting! "
I often think of this middle-aged woman, and I really wonder why she wants her son to learn painting-after all, painters are probably poor, and if they are artists, they might as well learn a foreign language to make a living.
Picasso said he could be as good as Raphael, but he didn't mean to brag. He was very skilled when he was a teenager. Picasso's early works showed his realistic ability.
Picasso/kloc-works of 0/3 years old
From Picasso's evaluation of children's painting, we can see that he really saw the highest realm of painting.
Picasso's famous "The Crying Woman" in his later period, you feel that you have returned to the realm of children. ...
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Some people may say that we ordinary people don't want to be artists. I just want my baby to learn to draw better, so I've been practicing since I was a child, okay?
The answer is terrible. Personal feeling: Preschool children should not accept any adult's painting guidance. Because painting skills are very easy to practice. It's not like sports or playing the piano, it needs the work of a physical child.
Writers and painters are professions that never start too late at any age.
Learning to paint in children's art classes will only destroy children's precious aura. This is not to say that all art teachers who teach children are not good, but that many things should be viewed in light of the current social situation:
Parents send training and spend money to see the effect. In order to meet the requirements of the market, training institutions can only focus on what can produce results (and the taboo of early education is to produce results quickly)-that is, draw what is "decent" in the eyes of adults.
Therefore, the organization will never (and has no time) teach the baby what aesthetics and art are, but will only wear away the baby's unique understanding and aesthetics and instill a national unified painting method: the bright part should be warm, the dark part should be cool, the near part should be solid, the far part should be empty, the pen should be loose and the shape should be solid. Anyway, draw something that parents think is "decent".
To put it bluntly, the baby just learned the craft, and the institution only trained craftsmen with good craftsmanship.