EXPRESSION


Vol. 13, 2016







In picture genesis, the "abstract" precedes and enables depiction and coding

Some arguments and speculations based on the investigation of
early pictures in ontogeny

Dieter Maurer

Institute for Contemporary Art Research
Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland






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During the fourth, fifth or sixth year of life, the development of analogy formation often engenders a figurative picture scheme (Figure 6), in which individual analogies are subordinated to an overall analogical picture effect of the entire picture plane.


Figure 6

Pictures of children (age range = 3y 8m to 5y 9m; entire pictures).

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