Emiley Hoffman

Stages of Artistic Development

ED 395

3/29/21

Stages of Artistic Development

Example 1:

I belive that this drawing from the 9 year old boy is in the schematic stage of artistic
development. I believe that it is in this stage of development because the art is showing
characteristics of the figures being lined up along the ground, and the two figures on the
righhand side are overlaping with one of the figures arms on the others. Another characteristic is
that the space in the art is showing to be flat and the depictions of the figures are represented in
shapes of circles and squares.
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Example 2:
I believe that this 6 year old girls drawing belongs in the dawning of realism stage. I belive this
because the portrait shows interest of detail such as the hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, shirt, nose, and
mouth. The portrait isn’t made up of prominent circles or squares, it shows that there is attention
to how a jawline looks and that the body shows rounded out shoulders. The attention to detail in
the hair and eyebrows shows that they are understanding placement and linework of how those
two features should look.
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Example 3:

I believe that this 6 year old boys drawing belongs in the schematic stage because of how the
landscape is layed out. The objects are layed out on a linear plane making the space flat, as well
as the sky being depicted as line on the top of the page with the blue clouds. The tree is made in
almost a lollipop form and the drawing overall shows to be free and spontaneious with the
background orange splotches and the smoke coming from the tractor.

Example 4:
This 9 year old girls drawing is in the schematic stage of artistic development because the
landscape is organized in a line across the bottom of the page. The flowers represent the concept
of what a flower looks like rather than a realistic perception of one as well as the grass.

This information is beneficial in the classroom because as the teacher you need to be able to
identify what stages your students are at and how you can challenge them in their artistic abilities
without the challenges seeming impossible. Knowing what stages your students are at artistically
will also help with planning lessons because if most of the students are the at the pre-schematic
stage of artistic development, having lessons that are mostly involved with the dawning of
realism stage will be too challenging for the students and will not show great performance. To
get students to the stage that you would like them to be the best way to do that is to use adult
intervention by presenting the information in small bits and using sequenced step-by-step
instruction. To do that making sure to involve demos, and having the students following along in
the instruction will help the students retain the process making information a lot easier. Another
way to have students retain more sequenced step-by-step techniques/information, involving
experimental activities such as having them explore the mediums freely first to see first hand
how it works or doing small projects first to see if they need any extra help with the art medium.
If there are students that are in higher stages of artistic development than the rest of the class,
ways to continue to challenge them while also being inclusive to the students in the lower stages
is to create lessons that allows for challenges to be added on for students who are at a higher
development stage. Such as demonstrating more challenging techniques to them to try on a
project, if the project is to draw a landscape show them how to do perspective or how to shade to
have them add more depth to their piece. With having students who are at higher development
stages practicing a laissez-faire approach to them can also be beneficial by letting them have free
range on their projects and explore different mediums, and if they want to try something more
challenging you are there to help them and let them progress more.