Children’s philosophizing about art. Children’s interpretations of selected paintings

Abstract

This article describes the meanings that six-year-old children attribute to selected paintings. The aim here is to broaden the adult's interpretative perspective and draw attention to the pedagogical consequences of young children’s different vision. A section of Polish research on this subject has been more thoroughly presented in the book titled Contemporary Polish Art through the Eyes of Children and Adults. The pedagogical, communicative, and cultural potential of selected paintings by Jacek Yerka, Tomasz Sętowski, Rafał Olbiński, Zdzisław Beksiński (Karczmarzyk, 2020). The research analyses in this article have been supplemented with new materials from 2021 and relate to the verbal meanings that children assign to selected paintings of European art (here specifically to the paintings of Salvador Dalí).