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不要小瞧孩子的涂鴉

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2018年02月16日

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你去朋友家做客,冰箱上貼著小孩的涂鴉。你可能看不太懂畫的是什么,但千萬(wàn)不要以為小孩們沒(méi)有想法。不要小瞧他們的一個(gè)點(diǎn)、一條線、一個(gè)圓,他們的畫是很多抽象畫大師的啟蒙。繪畫也是孩子自我表達(dá)的途徑:畫中有莫扎特,畫中有安徒生,每幅畫都是他們想象的后花園。

 

不要小瞧孩子的涂鴉

 

A parent might place his daughter’s tadpole drawing on the fridge out of a love for his child rather than for the funky-looking image, but for many people, that tadpole art is actually quite exquisite. In fact, adult abstract artists were often inspired by children’s drawing. Observers have found similar patterns in modern abstract art and kids’ drawing; one example is the “X-ray” drawing, or a drawing in which the “inside” of a person is made visible (like a baby shown inside a woman’s stomach). For the museum-goers out there who tend to point to a piece of modern art and say, “My kid could have made that!” it’s worth remembering that often, that’s actually just what the artist had in mind.

Lucky accident or artistic prodigy, acknowledging that young kids aren’t as intent on producing a realistic rendering helps demonstrate what the drawing experience means to them. For many kids, drawing is exhilarating not because of the final product it leads to, but because they can live completely in the world of their drawing for a few minutes. Adults may find it hard to relate to this sort of full-body, fleeting experience. But the opportunities for self-expression that drawing provide have important, even therapeutic, value for kids.

Even simple scribbles are meaningful. Now it’s been shown that when children are scribbling, they’re representing through action, not through pictures. Liane Alves, a prekindergarten teacher, recalled a student who presented her with a drawing featuring a single straight line across the page. Alves assumed the child hadn’t given too much thought to the drawing until he proceeded to explain that the line was one of the mattresses from The Princess and the Pea, one of the fairy tales they read in class.

Maureen Ingram, who’s a preschool teacher at the same school, said her students often tell different stories about a given piece of art depending on the day, perhaps because they weren’t sure what they intended to draw when they started the picture. “We as adults will often say, ‘I’m going to draw a horse,’ and we set out... and get frustrated when we can’t do it,” Ingram said. “They seem to take a much more sane approach, where they just draw, and then they realize, ‘it is a horse.’”

Ultimately, what may be most revealing about kids’ art isn’t the art itself but what they say during the drawing process. They’re often telling stories that offer a much clearer window into their world than does the final product. Asking them what their drawing is “supposed to be” wouldn’t yield as many answers, either; some have even argued that kids might be naming their work because they’re used to the ritual of their teachers asking them to describe their drawing and then writing a short title on the piece of paper. Studies suggest that kids will create an elaborate narrative while drawing, but when telling adults about their work they’ll simply name the items or characters in the image.

And what about those odd or scary-looking drawings? Does that mean kids are telling themselves stories that are odd or scary?

It’s hard to say, but it’s rarely a good idea to over-interpret it. Ellen Winner, a psychology professor at Boston College, pointed to parents who worry when their kid draws a child the same size as the adults, wondering whether she’s suffering from, say, a feeling of impotence —a desire to feel as powerful as older people. But the likely reason is that the child hasn’t yet learned how to differentiate size in his or her representation; the easiest solution is to just make all the figures the same size.

What’s most important to remember is that “children’s art has its own logic,” Winner said. “Children are not being crazy.”

Vocabulary

1. scribble: 亂涂亂畫。

2. 一個(gè)家長(zhǎng)可能會(huì)把他女兒的蝌蚪畫貼在冰箱上,這是出于對(duì)孩子的愛(ài),而不是因?yàn)楫嫳旧碛卸嗒?dú)特。但是對(duì)于很多人來(lái)說(shuō),這幅畫確實(shí)是一件相當(dāng)棒的藝術(shù)品。tadpole: 蝌蚪;funky: 獨(dú)特的;exquisite: 精美的。

3. 對(duì)于那些經(jīng)常去博物館參觀,并且總愛(ài)指著一幅現(xiàn)代藝術(shù)作品說(shuō)“我家孩子也會(huì)這樣畫”的人來(lái)說(shuō),我們需要記住的是,創(chuàng)作這幅作品的藝術(shù)家心里其實(shí)也是這么想的。goer: 常去……的人。

4. 無(wú)論是巧合還是藝術(shù)上的奇跡,承認(rèn)孩子們并非要制造現(xiàn)實(shí)的翻版可以幫助我們了解繪畫對(duì)于他們來(lái)說(shuō)到底意味著什么。prodigy: 奇跡;rendering: 翻譯,表現(xiàn),realistic rendering是“對(duì)于現(xiàn)實(shí)的翻譯或再呈現(xiàn)”,這里指孩子的畫加入了很多想象成分,并不是基于真實(shí)的描繪。

5. exhilarating: [?ɡ'z?l?ret??] 令人愉快的。

6. relate to: 了解,有共鳴;fleeting: 短暫的,轉(zhuǎn)瞬即逝的。

7. therapeutic: 治療的,治愈性的。

8. prekindergarten: 進(jìn)幼兒園前的。

9. mattress: 床墊;“The Princess and the Pea”: 《豌豆公主》,出自安徒生童話。

10. revealing: 有啟迪作用的,揭示秘密的。

11. yield: 產(chǎn)生;ritual: 慣例。

12. impotence: 虛弱,無(wú)力。

13. differentiate: 區(qū)分,辨別。
 


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