Science
A four-year-old's drawing ability can indicate how smart he will be ten years from now.
Parents giggle at their children's illegible art brought by toddlers from school or kindergarten.
However, research by King's College London has found that the creative efforts of young artists can make a significant difference in terms of genetics and intelligence.
Children who create beautiful drawings perform well on verbal and non-verbal tests. These tests were carried out with four-year-old children and tested ten years later, when they were fourteen years old.
However, researchers reassure parents whose children do not have special artistic skills. There is no need to panic, because there is a huge range of factors here.
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Testing children
Thanks to parents, psychologists were able to recruit 15,504 children over the age of four for testing. The test result was rated on a scale from 0 to 12 points.
The works were assessed in terms of the correctness of the shapes, such as the head, eyes, nose, and others.
The journal Psychological Science found that there was a moderate relationship between test results and intelligence levels in the same child aged four and fourteen.
This test was developed back in the 1920s to assess intelligence and its results were predicted for four-year-olds. But it is surprising that the test is relevant and has a relationship with the same child 10 years later.
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Human genetics
The researchers found the effect of the gene on the results.
Drawings of twin children aged four, whose genetic code is identical, and twin children whose genetic code differs, were compared. It was found that the test results for the first group of children are similar, in contrast to the test results for the second group.
This study also clearly shows that the fact that the beauty of children's drawings depends on intelligence is a relationship between art and science.
Perhaps the ability to draw is nothing more than recording information from outside, which has always contributed to the development of civilization.
However, the team of scientists believes that there is no special “gene for drawing”.
The child's abilities
A child's ability to draw comes from many other abilities, such as observing, knowing how to hold a pencil correctly, among others.
Researchers say they are far from understanding how genes influence different types of behavior.
Drawing is a very ancient human activity that dates back to 15,000 years ago. By drawing, we are trying to show what is in our head.
Based on the results of the tests, experts concluded that children who are successful in drawing do not necessarily have talent, but may simply be prone to developing an interest in art.
However, parents should know that if a child draws better than others, then he is smarter and sees the world more vividly.
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Young artist
The youngest recognized artist in the world is Aelita Andre, a seven-year-old from Melbourne, Australia. She has been drawing since she was two years old and her cheapest painting costs £3,000.
The capital earned from all sales of paintings has already amounted to more than £100,000. Little Aelita at the age of seven earned as much as many professional artists do not earn in a lifetime.
The girl started drawing before she started walking at 11 months, and now she has her own office and uses acrylic canvases by the young artist.
Aelita Andre's most expensive painting, The Russian Space Station Mir in Cherry Blossom, sold for $24,000 in Hong Kong.
