[Unusual aspects in the creative pictures of a retarded, ineducable boy].
Drawings and sculptures of an 11-year-old retarded boy are presented, who was not capable of school education. His low-level of lingual-logic thinking contrasts with his almost age-corresponding capability of optic differentiation. His pictorial creations are impressive in their accurate presentation of animals, which are reminiscent of the artistic figures of paleolithic big game hunters. Parallels with the paleolithic hunting magics as characterized by Mirimanow are obvious. The presentation of men in the form of acting head-feeters might be based on an undifferentiated idea of their own body, of partially disabled children with impaired sensorial recognition.
D001154:Art; D001720:Birth Injuries / Q000150:complications; D001828:Body Image; D003405:Creativity; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000209:etiology; D008606:Mental Processes; D014796:Visual Perception
Besonderheiten im bildnerischen Schaffen eines retardierten, schulbildungsunfähigen Knaben