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
	Figure 7 >> Back	Text Subsequently, depiction establishes a schematic structure (Figure 7) both in terms of the production process and the syntactic structure of pictures, characterised by elementarisation, model building and repetition: “abstract” graphic forms, few in number, and a limited set of types of combinations, arrangements and colouring are used for an extensive number of different depictions; simple models are used for analogy formations; elements and models are repeated over longer time periods with no or only small variations. Figure 7   Examples for the schematic structure which is established in the early development of depiction. (a) Pictures of children (in the sixth year; entire pictures).                (b) A paradigmatic example of schematic depiction (no age indcated on the picture).