Generally speaking, children's painting learning can be divided into four stages: graffiti period, symbol period, performance period and realism period. Among them, 1 to 2 years old is graffiti without purpose, and 3 to 4 years old is graffiti with purpose; Children aged 6 to 7 years old in the performance period; The realistic period, also known as the transition period, is a child aged 8 to 10. The following is a detailed explanation of these words.
1 graffiti period (before 4 years old)
The most obvious feature of this period is scribbling at will, and feeling the satisfaction and happiness brought by the traces left on the paper through the movements of hands. Children will enjoy daubing, and the written "works" have no specific image, only various lines on the paper. Some parents think that children are doodling at random, but this is the true embodiment of children's painting at this stage. It is a good phenomenon to start painting!
At this stage, parents should pay special attention not to disturb their children when they are drawing, so as not to distract them. After painting, give them appropriate encouragement, don't deliberately ask them to draw anything, and don't interfere too much with their painting ideas.
Symbolic period (4-6 years old)
Symbolic period is also called expressive symbolic period. During this period, children can further control the movement of their hands, and the drawn images seem to indicate something. Children in this period can create their own graphic symbols and start naming them. When adults ask, "What is this painting?" At this time, he will give his painting a name. For example, this is my mom and dad, and this is my goldfish, lion and so on.
Symbolizes that early children often paint people as "tadpoles", and they only pay attention to the main features when observing things. In this period, children's concept of external things is self-centered and a symbol of intuition. It is quite different from the real image and more original. Picture features, naive, simple, incomplete, some similar symbols, lines are not smooth, like babbling.
At this stage, parents should especially avoid saying that their children's paintings are different, which will stifle their creativity. There is no right or wrong in painting. At this stage, they can't treat their children's paintings with rational thinking. The key is to cultivate children's observation ability and creativity, and to integrate the hands-on abilities such as tearing, pasting, spelling and cutting, so as to stimulate children's imagination and contact different things and painting materials.
3 Performance period (6-7 years old)
The expression period is the golden age for children to learn children's painting, the most active period for children's thinking and the most creative period for children's painting. They can express their ideas, gradually have a clear understanding of modeling, and have a clear realistic tendency. Young people can draw what they think, while old people can draw what they see. The observation was further strengthened and the details were described. After the age of 6, children can also write down what they have seen and heard as a whole, and can summarize and reorganize what they have seen and heard from their memories.
The key to training at this stage is to cultivate children's imagination and image memory through various methods and channels. You can take your children to the art museum to visit the exhibition, feel the artistic atmosphere, guide them to observe the relationship between details and the whole, and emphasize the importance of the whole.
4 realistic period (over 8 years old)
During this period, children began to turn to realism, concerned about the quality of their own works, paid attention to the fidelity of the objects depicted, and loved to appreciate works with strong three-dimensional sense, rich light and shade changes and strong color realism. During this period, children's imagination and image memory gradually slow down, and their ability to observe realism develops rapidly, so it is necessary to cultivate their sketching ability. In addition, children can better understand and accept art professional knowledge and techniques, and theoretical knowledge can also enter systematic learning.
At this stage, children can be trained in watercolor, Chinese painting, animation, sketch and other courses, laying the foundation for learning sketch, color and sketch. Contact with different painting styles, improve aesthetic ability and cultivate comprehensive artistic accomplishment.
The above is the general course of children's art education. Parents can compare it and see which stage their children are in. But this division is not absolute, because there are individual differences in the development process of different children, some earlier, some later, and more specific learning arrangements depend on the specific situation of children. Parents and teachers should grasp different golden periods according to their children's age characteristics and guide their children's painting direction.