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The importance of art in the Youth World
by ABA Mag
Contact with art is important in anyone's life, especially in the educaon of children and adolescents Art expands the knowledge and sensibility of the individual, making him/her more creave, dynamic and autonomous for other situaons and tasks of life, inserted in the context ofsociety.
Every human being is born creave. And the child manifests this creavity in a way spontaneously, without myths and prejudices, in the first years of life, unl the beginning of the process educaon, when, then, this spontaneity begins to be impaired, in favor of formal learning. This does not only occur at school, but in the family itself, if parents do not have the sensivity to understand the importance of art in the formaon of their children.
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Even if the child is not going to pursue an arsc career in the future, the pracce of arsc acvies, such as drawing, painng and the visual arts in general, at this stage of life will, without a doubt,contribute to her becoming a more sensive andcreaveadult.
You can even claim that your child already does art in school. Really, there are good and few schools developing interesng work in art. But the main objecve of these schools is formal educaon andnotconstrucvetraining.
It is necessary to understand that the child's processes are more important than the "producon Final". Therefore, there should be no expectaonsorchargesforamazingresults.FromtheInthe same way, one should not overesmate any doodle thatthechildmakes.
Author: Laerte Galesso. Professor of Art and Design and director of ABRA - Brazilian Academy ofArt
Technique used to reproduce drops on a leaf/plant:
Oil pastels used for drawing and mixing on a sheet of 180g watercolor paper.
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