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Creative and Mental Growth: Viktor Lowenfeld

Viktor Lowenfeld outlined stages of children's artistic development: 1) The scribbling stage from ages 1-2 where children enjoy scribbling marks that become more organized over time. 2) The preschematic stage at age 3 where children's first representations are simple figures like a circle head with two lines for legs. 3) The schematic stage at age 4-7 where children develop schemas or standardized ways of depicting objects through simple shapes and lines on a baseline.

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Creative and Mental Growth: Viktor Lowenfeld

Viktor Lowenfeld outlined stages of children's artistic development: 1) The scribbling stage from ages 1-2 where children enjoy scribbling marks that become more organized over time. 2) The preschematic stage at age 3 where children's first representations are simple figures like a circle head with two lines for legs. 3) The schematic stage at age 4-7 where children develop schemas or standardized ways of depicting objects through simple shapes and lines on a baseline.

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Viktor Lowenfeld

Creative and Mental Growth


Scribbling stage - 2 years
• Started with enjoyable
kinesthetic activity, not
attempts at portraying the
visual world.

• After six months of scribbling,


marks are more orderly as
children become more
engrossed.

• Soon they begin to name


scribbles, an important
milestone in development.
Scribbling stage - 2 years
• Random scribbles begin at
age one-and-a-half, but quite
quickly take on definite shapes.

• Circular movement is first


because it is most natural
anatomically.
The preschematic stage
• Occurs around age three and
provides a tangible record of
the child's thinking process.

• The first representational


attempt is a person, usually
with circle for head and two
vertical lines for legs.

• Later other forms develop,


clearly recognizable and often
quite complex.

3 years old • Children continually search 4 years old


for new concepts so symbols
constantly change.
The schematic stage
• The child arrives at a "schema," a
definite way of portraying an
object, although it will be modified
when he needs to portray
something important.

• The schema represents the child's


active knowledge of the subject.

6 years old • There is definite order in space


relationships: everything sits on the
base line.
The gang stage: The dawning realism
• This dawning of how things
really look is usually expressed
with more detail for individual
parts, but is far from
naturalism in drawing.

• Space is discovered and


depicted with overlapping
objects in drawings and a
8 years horizon line rather than a base
line. 10 years
The gang stage: The dawning realism
• Children begin to compare
their work and become more
critical of it.

• While they are more


independent of adults, they are
more anxious to conform to
their peers.
The pseudo- naturalistic stage
• This stage marks the end of art as
spontaneous activity as children are
increasingly critical of their drawings.

• The focus is now on the end product


as they strive to create "adult-like"
naturalistic drawings.

• Light and shadow, folds, and motion


12 years are observed with mixed success,
translated to paper.

• Space is depicted as three-


dimensional by diminishing the size of
objects that are further away.

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