RESEARCH ANALYSIS ON CHILD ARTIST

AUTHOR – KUNDAN KUMAR, STUDENT AT AMITY UNIVERSITY NOIDA, AMITY LAW SCHOOL, NOIDA

BEST CITATION – KUNDAN KUMAR, RESEARCH ANALYSIS ON CHILD ARTIST, ILE MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL, 4 (1) OF 2025, PG. 1142-1145, APIS – 3920-0007 | ISSN – 2583-7230

Abstract

The cornerstone of the child art theory is that children are natural, innate artists independently or against cultural conventions. Children’s spontaneous drawings, usually described as artful, seem to have little, if at all cultural dimension. In fact, the very notion of child art seems to be extremely resistant to cultural discourse. This paper will try to illustrate that contrary to this dominant conception, young children’s visual creations do have a cultural dimension. This paper is the result of a long standing puzzlement over the almost mystical fascination of art educators over the notion of child art and the uncritical adoption of teaching practices stemming from it. Almost thirty years after the advent of post-modernity which suggests a plurality of interpretations of works of art, if not of the concept of art per se and examines the social basis of imagery, romantic notions of individual spontaneous creativity free from cultural constraints seem to still inform art practice in contemporary schools.