Developing Visual Perception as a Stimulator of Artistic Activities of Children

Abstract

I would like to present research in the field of art – specifically, in the artistic education of younger school children. The natural pedagogical experiment consisted of carrying out an art education programme aimed at developing the visual perception of children with regard to visual qualities, i.e. colour, line and solid representations. In the first part of experiment the children learned about these basic visual qualities and produced free interpretations of them. In the second part of the experiment the artistic problem of contrast in the learned visual qualities appeared. During the third part of the experiment children perceived the familiar qualities in relative relations. As visual perception determines the character and quality of artistic activities in children in such a significant way, it seems worth trying to revise the system of developing their artistic activities that has been used so far in art education.