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ABSTRACT
The research topic of this thesis, “Discover amusement that catches children’s attention, and use it for art creation”. The author chose this topic based on teaching experience in children’s fine-art education. Since the author has a strong interest at researching childhood amusement, the author then applies this knowledge on education to step over the communication barrier whilst teaching. With this experience, the author uses the idea to present art-works that convey childhood amusement. What is the research of childhood amusement? It is anything that we adore during childhood period, children’s paintings, ballads, poetries, and folkgame, and areas from artists art-works that convey childhood amusement. Research objectives are to investigative and collect fine-art teaching methods and materials that help to extend art-work topics, imitate different variations of children’s art creation to stimulate art-work creation, and invent drawing techniques that replicate the feelings when a child has been amused. The foundation of this research is based on natural sceneries, primitive arts, children’s art creations, famous paintings from eastern and western cultures, and modern visual-arts. Moreover, this research is arranged in following structures that are literature reviews, recording interesting events during teaching interaction, and comparing different art-works from artists and children. In the final presentation, ten of author’s recent art creations will be presented. In order to express the idea correctly, the followings are included along with the art-work as a description, The motives behind the art-work, tools and methods used during creation, and ideas that the author is trying to convey. Keywords: children’s amusement, restructuring, variation, visual art, will-to-art
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