{"id":8562,"date":"2024-04-12T13:10:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T18:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=8562"},"modified":"2024-04-14T12:08:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T17:08:16","slug":"primal-patterns-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=8562","title":{"rendered":"Primal Patterns, 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At the end of an earlier post in this series, I listed a couple of links I’d like to explore one day when I had more time, https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=7604<\/a>, Today I read part of this one – https:\/\/rdcu.be\/dEuOG<\/a><\/strong> on the development of drawing behaviour in humans and chimpanzees – so therefore under the headings of animal behaviour and biological anthropology. Never having studied human or animal behaviour, I also hadn’t any idea of ‘biological anthropology’ either, and am a but an interested amateur, really, when it comes to anthroplogy as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that paper was this statement – “One of the first steps of children\u2019s early symbolic drawing development is tadpole figures10<\/a><\/sup>. Consisting of two lines (legs) attached to a round form (head), the tadpole figure arises around 3 years of age11<\/a><\/sup> and is observed in Western as well in non-Western countries12<\/a>,13<\/a><\/sup>. Thus, in the same way that children reorganize their spoken language to communicate efficiently, the appearance of these first recognizable drawings also allows them to be better understood by others14<\/a><\/sup>.<\/em>” <\/p>\n\n\n

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Tadpole figures <\/span>–<\/em><\/strong> I picked up a pen and did a test doodle – and yes, two legs attached to a round form do suggest a human figure, definitely! <\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

It was quite fascinating reading, down to the bit where the authors moved on to the statistical analysis of their observations, and as this involves skills I don’t have, they lost me there. But that intriguing statement remains imprinted on my mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t remember my now-middle-aged children’s drawing development, or our grandkids’ development either, (the youngest is now 21) So I picked up a pen and did a test doodle following that brief description – and yes, two legs attached to a round form definitely does suggest a human figure. I could be the last person to know this, as it’s probably old news to anyone who studied psychology 101.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far my focus on primal patterns of lines and shapes has been Man’s physical environment through mark making of what are clearly symbols – but the tadpole figure<\/em> as a primitive representation of the human form needs further thought on how I might use this amazing concept it’s taken me decades to encounter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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