Abstraction of Individual Styles from the Drawings of Five-Year-Old Children.

Hartley, Jeffrey L.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1982-Oct

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Abstraction of Individual Styles from the Drawings of Five-Year-Old Children.

Hartley, Jeffrey L.; And Others

Child Development, v53 n5 p1193-214 Oct 1982

Three experiments used adults' performances in a category abstraction paradigm to test for the existence of individual style in the drawings of three five-year-olds. Overall, studies provided experimental support for the notion that young children possess recognizable artistic styles. (MP)

Descriptors: Adults, Classification, Creative Art, Freehand Drawing, Young Children

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Language: English

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