Mental development and education . Fig. i6. — Illustration for Johnny-Look-in-the-Air- (Sec exercise s, p. 328). Fig. 17. — Illustration for Johnny-Look from a child artist. (Seeexercise s. page 328.) EXPRESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: GRAPHIC, PICTORIAL 125 Young clnldrcn and often older ones experience difficulty in portraying a special kind of relation, as for instance a man riding a horse. They can show people and articles Difficulty of furniture in a house readily enough; one can » rep-resentingsimply look through the walls of the house and see special them. The child knows they are ther


Mental development and education . Fig. i6. — Illustration for Johnny-Look-in-the-Air- (Sec exercise s, p. 328). Fig. 17. — Illustration for Johnny-Look from a child artist. (Seeexercise s. page 328.) EXPRESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: GRAPHIC, PICTORIAL 125 Young clnldrcn and often older ones experience difficulty in portraying a special kind of relation, as for instance a man riding a horse. They can show people and articles Difficulty of furniture in a house readily enough; one can » rep-resentingsimply look through the walls of the house and see special them. The child knows they are there, and he does ?®****°°^not reflect that there is any obstruction which would preventan observer on the outside from seeing them. Again, he doesnot hesitate in showing the seeds in the middle of an apple orthe buttons on the back of a girls dress when she is being viewedfrom the front. When he draws a human being in profile heshows the arm on the opposite side of the body without anyhesitation. But when he tries to place a man on a horse therelation troubles him. The usual method is to draw the hors


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