AED 201 Developmental Levels of Artistic Ability in Children

Flashcards covering developmental factors, stages, and sub-stages of artistic ability in children based on AED 201 lecture notes.

How is Physical Development defined in relation to a child's artistic growth?

Manual Dexterity, such as using scissors or squeezing bottles of materials.

How is Emotional Development defined in a child's artistic growth?

Self-Expression, which refers to how and why we express it.

What age/grade range is associated with the Abrams Scribbling stage?

Toddler to pre-K.

What characterizes the Uncontrolled sub-stage of scribbling (Abrams)?

The making of accidental and kinesthetic marks with no shape development, where movements are performed more for physical pleasure and visual stimulus while progressing toward visual symbols.

What characterizes the Controlled sub-stage of scribbling (Abrams)?

A conscious effort to control marks, which largely stay on the page; tighter groups of lines show the first developments of form and shape, and efforts are made at straight lines.

What occurs during the Named sub-stage of scribbling (Abrams)?

The child represents marks on the page as having meaning and begins to name scribbles prior to or after drawing, acknowledging that the image has meaning to others even though recognizable symbols are not yet evident.

What occurs during the Mandala sub-stage of scribbling (Abrams)

Purposeful stacking and overlapping shapes occur, where outline marks define separate spaces in the image, often creating a loop or outline crossed over or filled with scribbled lines.

What grade range corresponds to the Symbol-making stage?

K-4th grade.

What defines the Preschematic (Undifferentiated) sub-stage of symbol-making?

Simple, symbolic shapes are used to represent multiple similar objects through concrete cognitive thinking; students draw what they know, not what they see, objects float, and size is used to express emotions.

What defines the Schematic (differentiated) sub-stage of symbol-making?

More specific and object-specific symbols represent forms; children draw what they know, pay attention to clothing and background details, use a baseline for gravity, and combine multiple points of view (frontal, eye level, bird's-eye, X-ray).

What sign indicates that a child in the Schematic stage is ready for the Naturalistic stage?

Simple baseline drawings give way to multiple baselines that may even include skies.

What grade range corresponds to the Naturalistic stage of artistic development?

5th-9th grade.

What characterizes the Realistic awareness sub-stage of the Naturalistic stage?

Attempts to modify symbols with observed accurate proportions, details, and color variations based on observations; horizon lines replace baselines, though feelings still affect proportions and subjects.

What characterizes Analytical Realism in the Naturalistic stage?

Simple uses of perspective based on size and detail, where observation largely replaces drawing what they know, and cartoon or stylized images are often used to make up for a lack of control or skill.

What characterizes Perceptual Realism in the Naturalistic stage?

Focused drawing from observation with greater attention to proportion, detail, point of view, and color; students draw what they see, show increased expression, move between personal and social awareness subjects, and often fixate on a favorite subject.

Why and when do students often stop and splinter off during the Perceptual Realism stage?

At 5th and 6th grade, because they do not think they are good at it.

What age range corresponds to the Mature stage of artistic development?

14-17.

What characterizes the Mature stage of artistic development?

Technical skills have no physical or mental limits, with a focus on refining skill with media to achieve desired objective or subjective effects, viewing the process from the perspective of a nearly mature artist with a high degree of visual accuracy in subjects, detail, proportion, perspective, and colors.