Or maybe those things do not suit our book when they are solved. When we assume that there are no solutions left, they are actually those things we do not want to solve. The child, with this picture, is saying “You are shooting my freedom.”ĭespite the tar-black days, the tank is painted full of colors. The weapon on top of the tank is shooting a bird flying in front of it. I want to be a happy child among birds, trees, flowers, under the sun with my red dress.”Īnother child from Cizre drew a tank.
She is trying to explain her worry with that picture: “This is the world I want to live in. Probably that child met the dark side of the world at an early age and she is drawing the spring she has seen a few times in her life so that she keeps it fresh in her memory. It is obvious that in the middle of tanks and ruins, this child is drawing not what she sees but what she is imagining. There is a giant rainbow over the mountains, a warm sun, butterflies and birds. A smiling girl in a red dress is picking flowers. There are mushrooms and flowers at the bottom of the tree.
There is a huge tree in the corner of the picture. The world for children is closer to the sky. I am guessing the child is about 10 years old, from the long trunk of the tree and the long legs of the horse.Ĭhildren draw tables, trees and animals as “much taller.” They see the world closer to the ground than we grownups. With this in mind, I was looking at a picture drawn by a child from Cizre, a district in southeastern Turkey. In the process of recreating with our own hand what lies before our eyes, we naturally move from a position of observing beauty in a loose way to one where we acquire a deep understanding of its parts.
Ruskin was trying to explain that drawing had value even when it was practiced by people with no talent. This was so for Ruskin because drawing can teach us to see, to notice properly rather than to gaze absentmindedly. He said, “A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus.” British art critic John Ruskin spent four years encouraging people to draw. People would draw to record what they saw.īut in the mid-19th century, photography killed drawing.
The darkness that makes children draw tanksīefore the invention of the camera, people used to draw more than they do today.
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