Mental development and education . tions not impress one as being very unreal or unnatural. revealed in .... , childrens With somedrawings? children, it seems that as manyobjects as are remem-bered are put in theirdrawings wherever itis convenient to placethem, and only veryfew of the actual rela-tions existing in natureare indicated. It isalways true, however,that the sky is the top-most thing in a picture,and the sun, moon,stars and clouds areabove everythingearthly. The ground isalways under a always risesfrom the chimneys; and a few other similar Fig. is a. — One childs illustr
Mental development and education . tions not impress one as being very unreal or unnatural. revealed in .... , childrens With somedrawings? children, it seems that as manyobjects as are remem-bered are put in theirdrawings wherever itis convenient to placethem, and only veryfew of the actual rela-tions existing in natureare indicated. It isalways true, however,that the sky is the top-most thing in a picture,and the sun, moon,stars and clouds areabove everythingearthly. The ground isalways under a always risesfrom the chimneys; and a few other similar Fig. is a. — One childs illustration of Johnny-Look-relations llwlVS seem in-the-Air. She made six scenes to tell the story. (Sec?^ exercise s, page 328.) to be shown correctly even by the youngest children. But if a boy is walkingalong the road and eventually falls into a river, the rivermay be placed off in the corner of the ]Mcture entirely dis-connected from the road. How the boy could fall into itis apparently never thought out by the artist. People go. EXPRESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: GRAPfllC, PICTORIAL 121 into houses that luivc no doors or windows and sloi)s run upto the rear of a house where there is no door. Fishes are shownliving out of water; the sun appears lower than the clouds;and hundreds of other impossible relations are frequently seen. Something of the samelack of considerationof relations can be ob-served in the propor-tions shown betweenthe objects in a pic-ture. Bears are madeas large as the housethey live in, and adozen times largerthan the doors they gothrough. Some children tell awhole story in one pic-ture, while others makea number of picturesto tell the same has been found,however, that artistsbelow eight or nineyears of age find nodifficulty in puttingeverything they thinkof into one work out a portion of a story logically and thenfill in the rest of it as best they can, all in one The Three Bears there is a possibility of twenty dif-ferent scenes show
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