Viktor Lowenfeld

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Viktor Lowenfeld

• Developmental Stages in Art

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Background

• Victor Lowenfeld grew up in Austria where he
  enjoyed playing the violin and painting. As an
  adolescent, he joined the Zionist Movement to
  rebuild Palastine.
• Victor Lowenfeld (1903-1960), was a pivotal
  person in art education. His theory of art
  development, which correlated with a childs
  chronological age, provided a structural
  assistance to art educators and therapists in
  understanding childrens art development (Muri,
  2002).
• He believed that art expression contained
  evidence of the mental and emotional health of an
  individual.

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Background

• Lowenfeld synthesized many theories and
  approaches in developing his own theory the
  Expressionist Movement in art, Froebels and
  Cizeks approaches to teaching children,
• Sullys investigation of scribbling, Luquets
  study of art development. Other people who
  influenced Lowenfeld were Buehler, Krotzsch,
  Riegel and Verworn.
• Two people that Lowenfeld influenced were
  Benjamin Britain and Bernard Young.

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Stages of Development in Art

• The Scribbling Stage
• The Preschematic Stage
• The Schematic Stage
• The Gang Age
• The Psuedo-Naturalist Stage
• The Adolescent Stage

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The Scribbling Stage

• Two-Four Years Beginnings of Self-Expression.
• -Drawing Characteristics
• -Space Representation
• -Human Figure Representation

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The Preschematic Stage

• Four-Seven Years First Representational
  Attempts.
• -Drawing Characteristics
• -Space Representation
• -Human Figure Representation

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The Schematic Stage

• Seven-Nine Years The Achievement of a Form
  Concept.
• -Drawing Characteristics
• -Space Representation
• -Human Figure Representation

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The Gang Age

• Nine-Twelve Years The Dawning Realism.
• -Drawing Characteristics
• -Space Representation
• -Human Figure Representation

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The Psuedo-Naturalistic Stage

• Twelve-Fourteen Years The Age of Reasoning.
• -Drawing Characteristics
• -Space Representation
• -Human Figure Representation

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Adolescent Art

• Fourteen-Seventeen Years The Period of Decision.
• -Drawing Characteristics
• -Space Representation
• -Human Figure Representation

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Summary

• The book, Creative and Mental Grow,
• has tried to show the interrelationship
• between children and their art. The
• stages may melt into one another
• during a childs development in art.