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Amie’s painting of 15 May 2007

I wrote a review of some of the interesting theory about children’s drawings. It briefly considers pre-representational drawing, but the meat of it deals with representation:

• realistic representation versus symbolism representation
• the tadpole formula for human figures
• children’s body-images: do we look like tadpoles to them?
• the possible sources of such distortions
• how a child proceeds to draw, e.g., top to bottom, left to right, head first, arms last
• constraints in children’s cognitive and technical skills, “tool boxes”, and experience
• some remaks on the role of education

 Enjoy!