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ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SENSE OF BALANCE IN ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONS

Research Project

Project/Area Number 05451152
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 教科教育
Research InstitutionTokyo Gakugei University

Principal Investigator

YAMADA Yoshihiko  Tokyo Gakugei Univ.The Faculty of Education, Professor, 教育学部, 教授 (70114816)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) NAKAMURA Tkeo  The Faculty of Education, Assistant, 教育学部, 助手 (60172409)
KANEKO Tooru  The Faculty of Education, Associate Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (90233882)
MASUDA Kingo  The Faculty of Education, Associate Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (20134786)
Project Period (FY) 1993 – 1994
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1994)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000)
Fiscal Year 1994: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Fiscal Year 1993: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Keywordsyoungsters / artistic expressions / balance / the sence of balance / development / 'frame' / equilibrium / 絵画 / 児童画 / 発達段階
Research Abstract

The following points represent our significant findings from our most recent research analysis :
(1) As we hypothesized earlier, the sence of balance of youngsters (including college students) in their artistic expressions are well developed.
(2) At the four-year old (preschool) stage and the four-year old (the second year of kindergarten) stage, the children's sense of balance is already well developed, and continues to develop to a higher degree until reaching a maximum at some later stage in life.
(3) Concerning the sense of balance, almost no gender difference can be found.
(4) In a comparison between regular college students and students whose major is art, both have similar awareness of the sense of balance in formative expression. However, the art majors have styles that are more individualistic, and their formative expressions are intentionally out of balance, or 'asymmetrical' .
(5) Some of the art majors even arrange objects that do not fit within the boundary of the drawing paper or the 'frame' of the picture ; i.e., they seem to be rather highly conscious of the 'frame' concept.
(6) There are certain groupings of patterns regarding the shape of the arrangement on a drawing paper ; triangular, horizontal, diagonal, etc.
(7) As for the range of equilibrium, both genders have a tendency to balance the drawing by setting the equilibrium toward the left side of the drawing paper. The upper left area has the highest tendency of occurrence, and the lower right, the lowest.
(8) As the students grow older, there does not seem to be a significant relationship between students' sense of equilibrium and left-handedness/right-handedness.

Report

(3 results)
  • 1994 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1993 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1993-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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