Abstract
This cross-sectional study tests and confirms the hypothesis of u-shaped development in graphic symbolization that postulates similarities between the drawings of preschool children and adult artists, and the loss or submersion of the early facility in middle childhood. Four-hundred and twenty happy, sad, and angry drawings from 140 participants (5, 8, and 11-year-olds; 14-year-old and adult artists and nonartists) were scored reliably across relevant aesthetic dimensions. Across most of these dimensions, the adult artists' scores were significantly different from those of all other groups, except for the artist adolescents and five-year-olds (p<.05 Scheffé method). Differences among the drawings point to a progression in the construction of the referential connection underlying visual metaphor. This progression is described as a process of distancing between symbol and self, in which use of the graphic symbol evolves from extension to invention.
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