Eye of the beholder: Children respond to beauty in art.

The purpose of this study was to determine if beauty was important to elementary age children when exploring and making aesthetic judgements about works of art and to determine the criteria elementary students used in judging beauty in works of art. This study also explored beauty as a concept that could be used as an organizing idea for designing a thematic unit with the purpose of introducing elementary students to postmodern art and issues. One hundred and sixty first grade and fourth grade students looked at 20 pairs of art reproductions and picked the artwork they considered the most beautiful. The criteria elementary students use for determining beauty in artworks was found to be color, realism, subject matter and physical appearance of the subject of the work of art.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2002

Author dc:creator

• Meli, Alisa A.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Newton, Connie
• Mayer, Melinda
• Bain, Christina Bittel

• Art -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
• Aesthetics.
• Postmodernism.
• art
• postmodernism
• beauty
• thematic teaching
• aesthetics

Statement dc:rights

• Use restricted to UNT Community
• Copyright
• Meli, Alisa A.
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 54857550
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3081/
ark: ark:/67531/metadc3081

OAI identifier oai:identifier

info:ark/67531/metadc3081