Artistic Achievements of Artistically Gifted Children: Artefacts of Artistic Development from Early Childhood to Artistic Maturity

Dinev, Nikolay M.

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Artistic Achievements of Artistically Gifted Children: Artefacts of Artistic Development from Early Childhood to Artistic Maturity

Nikolay Marinov Dinev * nmar@abv.bg * ORCID: 0000-0002-5902-6913
National Academy of Art – Sofia, BULGARIA

Open Journal for Studies in Arts, 2019, 2(1), 1-14 *https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsa.0201.01001d
Online Published Date: 13 July 2019

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KEY WORDS: gifted children, childhood, drawings, children stylistics.

ABSTRACT:
Children’s creativity is a first touch to the fine arts for many people. Artistically gifted children have almost undoubtedly interesting development as adults as well. It is a fact many of our well-known artists keep their children’s drawings and paintings. Plenty of artists draw and develop from a very early age and offer a long, interesting and ambiguous artistic path. One of the many and not the only examples to confirm the thesis are the world-famous painters Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Klee … A lot of artists continue to develop their interest in Childhood as a unique emotional territory, in the childlike view of the world, in the remarkable spontaneity of children’s stylistics…

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Nikolay Marinov Dinev, National Academy of Art – Sofia, BULGARIA. E-mail: nmar@abv.bg.

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