畵面의 바탕處理가 表現活動에 미치는 影響에 관한 硏究 = A STUDY UPON “THE INFLUENCE OF BACKGROUND HANDLING ON THE PICTORIAL SURFACE TO EXPRESSION ACTIVITY” - amidst children aged from 5 through 7 yrs. within Seoul area -

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Every human being has own world. Among the various worlds possessed by the various people, the world owned by a child is an era of wonder, mystery, and imagination.
Drawing is a most fundamental activity which every child is fond of, and through the activity, a mental imagination can yery naturally be expressed.
Through this study, I collected the drawings of the children, as a material for the study, in regards with the expression of theme and the backgroundhandling in the drawings, which can easily be found in the child drawings, and intended to find the influence of the pictorial surface made to the activity of the activity of the child.
For the purpose of the study, I took the children ranged from 5 through 7 years old, as the objectives, and caused them to draw one on a free theme and the other one on a given theme, on the same sized drawing papers(26.8cm×18.3cm).
I did not put any restriction over them drawing a free theme so that they could express any thing in any way at their random, and they could completely be free upon how to handle the background, while I regulated them to complete the pictorial surface without any blank for the given theme.
There could not be in the world any better sincereity than the one expressed through the drawings of the children. Therefore, it can be said the purpose of the drawing education of the child is to properly understand the mental world of the child from the stand point of the child, and to help them to lead their puported meanings toward desirable and positivive directions. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, I collected total 680 sheets of drawings of the children, which consist of 330 sheets of free theme and 350 sheets of given theme, and obtained following result:
On Free Theme: 1. Colored only for the main theme .............................................. 49.39%
2. Completely filled the pictorial surface with color ........................... 25.76%
3. Expresse