May There Always Be Sunshine: Collection of Children's Drawings

By Tatiana Friesen and Ileskan Smanov

The book presents the collection of drawings of young painters from Kazakhstan, Germany, Ukraine, Canada, and Russia.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: Jan 24, 2024
• ISBN: 9783758396007

Tatiana Friesen

Tatiana Friesen is a manager of international educational projects. She lives in Germany.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editor’s Foreword

Vorwort des Redaktionskollegiums

4–9 years-old | Jahre alt | лет

10–13 years-old | Jahre alt | лет

14–16 years-old | Jahre alt | лет

Index of Drawings by Young Painters

Editor’s Foreword

This album, May There Always Be Sunshine!, contains drawings made by children aged 4–16 from different countries¹. The drawings are also presented online².

The young artists tried in an individual way to portray something interesting or memorable that had impressed them. Their drawings may have been evoked by realistic or fantastical associations.

Sometimes, drawings are a way of self-expression for children, a means of communicating with each other and the world around them. Drawings reflect their understanding of the world: children project their feelings, emotions, needs, desires, conflicts, intentions and expectations. Such drawings are often the result of children’s need to depict what they know and feel rather than what they see.

The creativity of fine arts is highly popular among young children. Four or five-year-olds begin to depict recognizable objects; at the age of nine to ten, their drawings are meaningful stories with playful plots. Children’s creativity reaches its peak of development in adolescence when teenagers fully perceive the world’s artistic heritage and professional art.

Aristotle³ noted the positive influence of drawing, along with grammar, gymnastics and music, on the development of a child’s personality⁴. This idea was confirmed in the works of J. A. Komenský,⁵ J. H. Pestalozzi⁶ and F. W. A. Froebel⁷.

Children’s fine arts creativity lays the foundation for their meaningful communication with adults, has a positive effect on their emotionality and distracts them from sadness and fears; it can reduce post-traumatic stress disorder caused by war-related events.

Regardless of the execution technique, skill or age of the young painters, their moods, observational ability, imagination, and undeniable conscientious diligence can be felt in each of the drawings.

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1. May There Always Be Sunshine is a popular Soviet children’s song created in 1962. The music was composed by Avraam (Arkady) Ostrovsky (1914–1967), and the lyrics were written