Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: Children's art exhibitions between the 1940s and 1960s as a strategy for asserting the importance of Art in educating and developing a child's personality are analyzed. Sources comprised newspaper articles, pictures, children's drawings, reports and other institutional documents. Early 20th century artistic vanguards which advocated the artist's self-expression and the acknowledgement of child specificities by Psychology and Pedagogy enhanced the defense of the child's freedom of artistic expression and the renewal of the concept of Art and Education during that period. From the mid-1940s children's art was focused upon by UNESCO since it represented an integration and fraternity potential among peoples and the desire to construct a renewed human being. Exhibitions were the vehicles for several discourses on the importance of children's art. Within the Brazilian context, Governmental agencies, national newspapers and private companies started to become involved in this factor. Whereas the above mentioned discourses involved the consolidation of an educational behavior based on the unrestricted freedom of children's creative spirit, contrastingly they supported a censorship of themes which were considered unsuitable, such as violence and war, and the need to follow a pre-defined esthetic standard.
Source: Acta Scientiarum Education
Institutions: Universidade Federal do Paraná, UNESCO
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2109962345