{"id":3820,"date":"2022-09-23T05:22:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T02:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegoodenoughstudio.com\/?p=3820"},"modified":"2022-09-25T08:35:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T05:35:15","slug":"demanding-children-to-plan-their-artwork-in-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegoodenoughstudio.com\/demanding-children-to-plan-their-artwork-in-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Demanding children to plan their artwork in writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

An architect plans a home.<\/span><\/p>\n

He creates a rough sketch of his idea, then plans ahead the details.<\/span><\/p>\n

As an adult, he already owns the 3D abilities, imagination, and experience to transform a 2D drawing into a building. He can plan his images.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When this adult architect was in elementary school \u2013 how did he naturally create and think?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Perhaps he built a lot of lego structures or building blocks?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Perhaps he constructed a town with boxes using a hot-gun?<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps he made stone towers in nature?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Does a child NEED to plan?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Children have an idea, a feeling, an urge to do – and they go for it. They desire and are urged to express that “something.” \u00a0They are full of life here and now. <\/span><\/p>\n

They glue boxes together, draw a huge castle, or hide under a table they have covered with blankets as they create a dark cave to hide from a dinosaur.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a bodily intuitive imaginary trial and error process between the craving and reality of objects and materials. <\/span><\/p>\n

It is mostly an unfolding process in the here and now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not yet an upfront cognitive process as the architect they will become. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The brain is not there yet.<\/span><\/p>\n

They are children!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Moreover, I do not see many of my artists’ friends planning their artwork.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most artists do not plan too much. Instead, they mostly choose a medium, size, and basic theme and trust the process.<\/span><\/p>\n

So what do artists do?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

They respect and take good care of their materials and tools. They are courageous and persistent in delving into a process, being determined to look at a dead end many times and creatively trying to do something with it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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So, why are we demanding children to write – verbalize their artistic plans?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Why are we imposing an adult cognitive process on an intuitive process of a child?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pushing a child to plan and write their intuitive, artistic process is forcing an adult cognitive mode on them much too early. <\/span>It is being blind to natural childhood development.<\/span><\/p>\n

It creates resentment and anger, and rightly so.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Upper image: Malka-Hass-Painting-Pavilion-Maayan-10-years-old<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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