Heidi's horse

By Sylvia Fein

Subjects: Cognition in children, Drawing, psychology of, Children's art, Child psychology, Psychology of Drawing, Drawing ability in children, Longitudinal studies, Child artists, Horses in art, Perception in children

Description: Heidi's Horse is an analysis of a child's artistic life. It reveals that in their drawings all children sequentially obey universal imperatives which are identical to those in the history of mankind's art. It demonstrates that art is a second language: logical, orderly, systematic, abstract, subtle, serious and humorous; a way to say something about the world that words can't say.