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How a picture means
Author(s) -
Smith Nancy R.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cd.23219790307
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , representation (politics) , set (abstract data type) , picture books , psychology , process (computing) , aesthetics , cognitive psychology , visual arts , art , computer science , politics , library science , political science , law , programming language , operating system
An artist's ideas about his drawing material, as well as about his subject, influence the forms in his picture. Each set of ideas modifies the other in an interactive process that determines the eventual configurations in his drawing. The interdependence of material and subject is particularly evident in the drawings of young children as the capacity for representation first emerges.