The study presented in this article looks at how the phenomena of reality are constructed in totally blind people’s drawings. Analysis focuses on drawing skills and their development seen based on drawings made by people who have been blind since birth. Raised-line drawings made on a special drawing film for blind people were analyzed. The analysis covered: 1. Blind people’s cognitive abilities – the way they see phenomena. 2. Abilities and ways of presenting phenomena in drawings. 3. Determining stages in the development of drawing skills in blind children as compared to the development of drawing skills in sighted children. The study was motivated by the desire to answer the following questions: What similarities and differences are there in the process of drawing by people with disabilities and in their drawings? What esthetic features (content, form, uniqueness of presentation, manner of displaying emotions) do blind children’s drawings have? How are the phenomena of reality depicted in blind people’s drawings? What difficulties do blind people encounter in making a drawing on a two-dimensional surface? Does blind children’s artistic development take place in a similar way as sighted children’s artistic development? Are blind children at a similar level of artistic development as their sighted peers? I proposed a model of artistic creation that takes into consideration the content and form of drawings and the artist’s creativity and emotionalism which was used as a tool in the analysis. All aspects of the analysis refer to the stages of drawing development in sighted children proposed by: Stefan Szuman, Viktor Lowenfeld, W. Lambert Brittain, and Georges-Henri Luquet.
Artykuł niniejszy podejmuje problem projekcji wiedzy o zjawiskach rzeczywistości w rysunkach dziecka całkowicie niewidomego od urodzenia. Aby dokonać analizy rysunku osoby niewidomej, usiłuję dotrzeć do tego wycinka wiedzy tkwiącej w umyśle autora, który generuje kreowane w rysunku zjawisko. Staram się zatem ustalić zakres wiedzy o zjawisku za pomocą rozmowy na temat doświadczeń dziecka: – doświadczeń sensorycznych zdobytych drogą percepcji dotykowej, a także z udziałem pozostałych zmysłów, – wiedzy o zjawisku zawartej w umyśle (model kognitywny). Przedmiotem analizy staną się wypukłe rysunki na folii mikrorowkowanej, a narzędziem analizy model ukazujący: treść i formę rysunku, kreatywność i emocjonalność rysownika. Analizy te zostaną porównane i zweryfikowane zgodnie z etapami możliwości rysunkowych dzieci widzących. Ustalam je, korzystając z badań Szumana (1990), Lowenfelda i Brittaina (1977) oraz Luqueta 2001/1927). Narzędzie to uwzględnia aktualną wiedzę o sztuce, o etapach rozwoju plastycznego dziecka oraz o możliwościach osób niewidomych.
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The following article focuses on the problem of knowledge projection of reality shown in the drawings of a child completely blind since birth. To analyse a drawing of a blind person, I try to reach this fragment of knowledge in the mind of the author that generates the phenomenon created in the drawing. Therefore, I try to determine the scope of knowledge about the phenomenon by having a conversation with the child about his experiences: – sensory experiences acquired through tactile perception, as well as other senses, – knowledge about the phenomenon contained in the mind (cognitive model). The subject of the analysis will be convex drawings on the micro-grooved film. The analysis tool will comprise of the model showing the content and form of the drawing, the creativity and the emotionality of the illustrator. These analyses will be compared and verified in accordance with the stages of the drawing skills of sighted children. I determine them using the studies of Szuman (1990), Lowenfeld and Brittain (1977) and Luquet (2001/1927). This tool takes into account current knowledge about art, stages of child’s plastic development and the abilities of blind people.
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