The time elapsed is growing fascination with emotional and psychological aspects of

children's artistic expression, especially in the areas of psychology, psychiatry and art
therapy. Booklet Italian author Corradio Ricci Art small children (1887, according to
Cox, 2000) has led to a real explosion of interest in children's drawings. According to the
story, Ricci is one of the rainy sought shelter in the covered passage, and while waiting
for the rain stops, his attention was attracted by graffiti on the walls. He is lovable and
somewhat badly drawn images that everyone would recognize as a work of children's
hands. Began to ask what it is, which makes children's works different from
conventional art, what is indicated in the study and as a result, the above-mentioned work
(Cox, 2000).
Indisputable that the children drawing for centuries, but the enigma remains why,
especially before the 19th century, only a small number of their works or their copies?
As most probably the reason for their relationship, which is ruled by the children in the
past: children's thinking, understanding and skills were considered as imperfect and
inferior in relation to adults and thus insufficiently valuable preservation. Only in the
18th c. a relevant increase for the period of early childhood - born to a new
psychological climate, which, protects, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778),
philosopher and educator. Childhood was considered particularly important phase in
development, and is known for his phrase "the child is a child, not adult, directing their
unique constitutional inferiority with which the children to this as an (Cox, 2000).
Nowadays, children's drawings are recognized as the best ways in which the child can
communicate and is increasingly considered to images of their emotional life and
personality; drawings are a window into their inner world. Children can use the drawing
for the purpose of research, problem solving, giving visual form the ideas and
observation but the general consensus of opinion that is a characteristic of artistic
expression, a unique personal approach, which in itself contains the elements of aware
and unconscious meanings representative for many aspects of a child who created. Most
therapists who work with children considered drawing effective therapeutic approach for
helping children to express the ways that language is not so. Early 20th century, the
interest in psychiatry, psychology and education for the symbols that appear in art, which
has led to the development of an independent category art - therapy in late 1940-a and
1950-a. Unlike previous projective tests, the goal of art therapy is not only consisted in
attempts to find out meaning of children's work, but tried to understand the complexity of
the process and product of artistic activities (Malchiodi, 1998).
Clinician and researchers have developed a variety of philosophical frameworks on the
basis of which can be find out, describe and understand children's drawing, but most
appreciate the children's visual mode of communication in all his richness, uniqueness,
complexity and spontaneity. Children's artistic expression, as only a child, completely
authentic and individually, and must attack the within the wider context of development,
emotional, social and cultural factors and experiences (Malchiodi, 1998).
Developmental aspects of children's drawings