그림을 잘 그리는 아이와 못 그리는 아이를 구분하는 판단의 기준은 어디에 있을까? 전문가들은 다양한 측면을 고려하여 아동의 그림을 평가하겠지만, 일반적으로 많은 사람들은 아동의 그림을 평가하는데 발달론적 시각의 영향을 가장 크게 받는다(김미남, 2012: Kim, 2009). 내적 발달요인 뿐만 아니라 외적 요인들도 아동의 미술표현 발달에 큰 영향을 주고 있다는 많은 증거들이 최근 여러 연구자들에 의해 제기되고 발달론적 시각의 문제점과 한계들이 비판받고 있음에도 불구하고, 발달론적 시각은 처음 이론이 소개된 이후 백 오십년이 넘게 미술교사교육, 학교 현장의 미술교육 그리고 아동미술 연구 등에서 여전히 주도적인 역할을 하고 있다(김미남, 2012; Golomb, 2002; Kim, 2009: Kindler, 1994, 1999; Wilson & Wilson, 1977).
The purpose of this study is to investigate the characteristics of children's learning and development of visual vocabularies through individual artistic experience. This study is a qualitative case study to analyze a child(Doyoung)'s pictures and daily artistic experiences who was considered as 'cannot draw' in adults' view. we analyzed closely his pictures and interviews, and interviews with his teacher to examine the characteristics of his artistic experiences in and out of school and teacher's assessment on Doyong's drawing ability. The result of analyzing his artistic experience including his pictures and interactions with others related to art-making shows that although his artistic development has been underestimated by adults, Doyoung's visual vocabularies in a specific area such as action related to baseball are various and creative comparing with peer, and he was so interested in expressing action to two-dimensional plane. Main factor affecting his learning of visual vocabularies for depicting figure's movements and actions is mass media(TV animation) not school art class, and characteristics of main character's appearance were reflected in Doyoung's expression intactly. His pictures ware not 'refined well-drawn' picture in adult's view, but Doyoung was contend to his own pictures and very proud of them, and enjoyed drawing. These results imply that individual child has a different artistic experience so he/she can develop a different set of visual vocabularies related to their artistic interest. This study suggests that not only the curriculums of school but various themes related to mass media and visual culture as artistic experiences affecting to children's art expression need to be provided to children to broaden their view of art and let them perceive drawing an amusing activity. 교보문고 KYOBO