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The author provides the ways in which children's knowledge of visual elements of art can be developed through simple but creative activities.
Art as Exploration
Art as Exploration
Investigating, Making and Responding to Art
Any attempt to understand art, and to help children learn through doing artwork for themselves, is greatly helped by realizing at the outset that there are no neat and tidy definitions to tell us exactly what art is. Even within our own society, the word ‘art’ means too many different things to too many different people to be summed up adequately in a few words, and people of other times and cultures thought, and still do think, of art in ways quite different from our own.
Three Aspects of Art
Many people, perhaps most, in Europe and America today think of art mainly or wholly in terms of product. To them, art means the contents of art ...
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