Critique of sketches by children and adolescents

Author: Zhu Anni
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Publish Date: 2000-05-01
Features: This book features over 60 works, with the youngest artist being 4.5 years old and the oldest 8 years old. None of them had prior experience with clay sculpture before class. But look at these works—they are rich in imagination, vivid in form, and express the purity of childhood. Children's paintings are abundant like the ocean, but their sculptures are rarely seen. Many people are unfamiliar with this artistic language. However, the enthusiasm and focus they display while learning show that, under the teacher's simple and easy demonstrations, they have treated the clay blocks, clay slabs, and clay strips as if they were alive. Once simple shapes are combined, they create works that come to life. Unlike painting, these works can be viewed from different angles. Different lighting also gives different impressions. Painting requires us to use imagination to complete the space, but in front of sculptures, the space is real and can be extended. The biggest difference is that when you touch them, you feel a child's soul has been poured into them, causing a heart tremor: it feels as if it's truly a living thing.