Teach children to draw

"A nation in which people would be taught to draw just as they are taught to read and write would soon surpass all others in all the sciences, arts and crafts," Diderot said.

Let us leave on the conscience of the great French enlightener the maximalism of this statement: Today it is already well known that the two hemispheres of the brain perform not exactly the same functions in the body and can not completely replace each other, as, for example, other paired organs - kidneys or lungs. In experiments with temporary disabling of a hemisphere( and more often in people with damage to one of the brain's hemispheres) it is established that the left hemisphere is responsible for logical thinking activity, provides concreteness of representations, the right hemisphere for artistic and imaginative thinking and emotional coloring of life. For a full-fledged, harmonious development, both functions are necessary and important.

In the evolution of mankind, the role of the cerebral hemispheres at different stages was not the same. According to experts, artistic-imaginative thinking is primary, it emerged before the logical and many years ago was leading in the mental activity of man. And since each person in his development to some extent repeats the main stages of the development of all mankind, it can be argued that all normal, mentally healthy children are artists.

We, the adults, often do not understand the result of their creativity. But in the main they are artists - they create. Free creativity among adults is a rare exception. But it is typical of almost every normal child.

Children are unfamiliar with the proportions between different parts, for example, bodies( it should be borne in mind that they do not look at the world from our level either.) Try to get on all fours, that is, dropping to the eye level of a son or daughter, to see at least furniturein your apartment. And you will understand where such proportions come from).They easily disperse attention, and they can not do the whole drawing equally neatly. Children think abstractly, they do not know the laws of perspective. ..

And in general, children do not know much. They do not know that you can not paint wallpaper, walls on a staircase and other people's doors. And if they still do it, it's not from hooligan motives( how can preschoolers be hooligans?), But because we, adults, did not provide them with paper, pencils, paints. ..

Children do not know a lot. To fix a pencil, to dissolve the paint, to get wet with a blot. .. And where are we, adults? It's our duty to teach and help. And excuses like: "I myself do not know how to draw( sculpt)" hide our laziness, inattention, unwillingness. How much do you need to be able to( you really need to know a lot) to do the drawing with the child?

This is how the authors of the manual "Foundations of Aesthetic Education" formulate the role of adults in mastering the fine arts of children of primary school age: "The main task of art classes is enrichment and clarification of children's ideas about objects and phenomena of nature, the surrounding reality, the life of people, about his native country. Art classes at this age have a pronounced cognitive character. The main thing here is the accumulation and artistic generalization of facts, the cognition of the laws of the surrounding in a figurative form. "

According to experts, it is not necessary to be able to draw, sculpt, embroider, and so on. And maybe even better, if the adult does not know how - there will be less criticism. And what is necessary? Different authors respond differently to this question, but the essence of the answer is that attention and respect for the child and his occupation are necessary.

Stop, peer, praise, pay attention to the lost detail, discuss the idea( yes, yes, the idea of ​​drawing - only bees build cells instinctively, children, even the smallest ones, do not paint without thought) - this is already very much. And if during a walk or on the way to a kindergarten to linger for a minute at a beautiful tree, see under your feet a flower or a bug, admire the web with droplets of dew on it. ..

The feeling of beauty lives in every person - although they say that abouttastes do not argue, but the absolute majority of people appreciate the beautiful uniquely. Consequently, in this case it is only about getting yourself to distract yourself from your own thoughts and communicate with the child.

Undoubtedly, the most inexhaustible source of wonderful experiences is wildlife. KD Ushinsky called nature the best mentor of beauty. But he also warned - you can not think that if the children are surrounded by nature, then this is enough to make her fall in love and penetrate her beauty.

In order for nature to become a mentor, it is necessary to work hard for us, parents. To work hard is to awaken love for nature, showing its beauty, telling about its defenselessness before armed hardware by man.