But abstract art is definitely distinct from the random splatters of a child, a new study finds. In research published in the Journal of Cognition and Development, children as young as age 4 were ...

Art activities in at home and in classrooms play a crucial role in nurturing creativity, self-expression and cognitive development in these young children. Art helps preschoolers develop fine motor ...

The world of abstract art is a mystery to me ... I don’t doubt that any of the children hailed as prodigies over the years have been talented in some way, or that their art embodies the ...

Nor are the qualities of the abstract art only visible to people steeped ... pieces than in the more random shapes of the children and animals. As Hawley-Dolan and Winner write: “People ...

Another popular storytelling style in African children's art is depicting scenes from everyday life. These scenes usually ...

We paired 30 abstract paintings by famous artists with superficially similar paintings by children or animals (monkeys, chimps, gorillas, elephants) and asked people which they preferred and which ...

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Abstract art has its roots in early human civilisation. Cultures across the globe have used non-figurative, but highly symbolic, decoration for centuries. While abstract art became the dominant ...

Abstract art can make you look at the world in a whole new way. Associated with artists like Paul Cezanne, Man Ray and Picasso, this style is based around implication — creating images with ...

They saw more of such intentions in the professional pieces than in the more random shapes of the children and animals. As Hawley-Dolan and Winner write: “People untrained in visual art see more than ...