Development of creative printmaking from child’s aesthetics expression and content

Abstract

       The creative research: Development of Creative Printmaking from Child’s Aesthetics Expression and Content. The objectives are to study the child’s art artistic expression in their art works on the age between 7-9 years old and to develop creative printmaking. By employs the theories of Victor Lowenfeld and Rhoda Kellogg to analyze and synthesize child artistic expression and use the synthesized art form from child painting for developing individual expression style of the research in contemporary printmaking. This study finds that child art expression generally base on their physical development of hands and fingers to handle a pencil which frequently use dots and lines to draw a simple geometric shape and form with free and sudden expression. Oftentimes, the first object child can draw is the sun and human. Objects in child paintings is rather a representative than an imitative of things from their visual experiences or imagination which the pictures are drawn with the will of narration without any determination of rules , most of the objects float in the air and using a baseline to determine the position.  Content in child painting depends on emotional development which mostly combines with their surrounding environment and people. Thus, the expression style and content in child art delivers the sense of purity and honesty, which makes the audiences always feel joyful and happy when viewing the artworks. Especially the Symbolic Stage of child art between 7-9 years old which impression researcher because of the same age as daughter which is researcher’s   inspiration. Therefore, collecting data use purposive random sampling by go to school use non-participation observation with child art from daughter’s classmates then analyze and synthesize it to compare with related theories. In the series of printmaking works have synthesized the expression style of childhood artworks and compared side by side with the character of printmaking techniques and finds similarity or linkage between them specifically the use of free and sudden lines in child artworks and Mono-print technique which emphasizes on fast, sudden and agile expression. The content of the new printmaking series, researcher used the story from the surrounding environment and combine with experience from doing various activities which researcher has done together with daughters. Therefore, adapted both artist expression and content such as simple, fast, independent or undecorated of childhood artworks and reorganized them into a new series of artwork through printmaking by mono-print techniques to deliver the sense of fun and happiness to the audiences.