It is obvious that in the middle of tanks and ruins, this child is drawing not what she sees but what she is imagining.
There is a giant rainbow over the mountains, a warm sun, butterflies and birds. A smiling girl in a red dress is picking flowers. There are mushrooms and flowers at the bottom of the tree. There is a huge tree in the corner of the picture. The world for children is closer to the sky. I am guessing the child is about 10 years old, from the long trunk of the tree and the long legs of the horse.Ĭhildren draw tables, trees and animals as “much taller.” They see the world closer to the ground than we grownups. With this in mind, I was looking at a picture drawn by a child from Cizre, a district in southeastern Turkey. In the process of recreating with our own hand what lies before our eyes, we naturally move from a position of observing beauty in a loose way to one where we acquire a deep understanding of its parts.
Ruskin was trying to explain that drawing had value even when it was practiced by people with no talent. This was so for Ruskin because drawing can teach us to see, to notice properly rather than to gaze absentmindedly. He said, “A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus.” British art critic John Ruskin spent four years encouraging people to draw. People would draw to record what they saw.īut in the mid-19th century, photography killed drawing. The darkness that makes children draw tanksīefore the invention of the camera, people used to draw more than they do today.
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