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Building with Colors and Shapes: The Modernist Aesthetic for Young Children

From the collection of the Tweed Museum of Art, The University of Minnesota Duluth

Recommended for children ages 3-6

Young children can respond well to significant artworks and should be challenged to explore them as part of their art education. Too often, early childhood educators limit art activities to step-by-step projects that rely on pre-cut, commercially derived imagery and conventional themes. Abstract artworks are rarely used as motivational resources in the early childhood art curriculum. The omission is unfortunate and unnecessary, since in nearly every early childhood program the study of shapes and colors is standard practice. In fact, the preschool world of colorful building ...

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