As with many
things in nature, given a productive and devoted time to art, the
artist will come full circle. This lucky artist brings the
experience of his art and of his living to his later work. It is the
seasoned eye that sees the difference between the art of the child,
and that of the artist come full circle.
"... all the fundamental features that operate in refined,
complicated, and modified ways in mature art show up with elementary
clarity in the pictures of a child or a bushman" (63)
The child, the bushman, and the mature artist have certain things in
common. All three have a similar feeling of doing. They are absorbed
in grasping the essence, using the tools at hand that are most
suitable at the time. All are great innovators. Spontaneity, but
with tremendous care, is common to all. None are concerned with
sophisticated effects for the purpose of dazzling a crowd.
63. Rudolf Arnheim, Art and Visual Perception, The New Version,
(Berkeley and L.A., Cal., University of California Press, 1974),
p.162
