{"id":453,"date":"2017-02-12T14:40:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T14:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/?p=453"},"modified":"2017-02-12T14:44:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T14:44:49","slug":"thoughts-on-children-and-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on children and art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">As a parent creativity has re-entered my life formally (homework!) and informally (Dad, draw me a picture of a dinosaur), and it has been interesting to combine this with my own semi-artistic output: I have no formal training but studied photography at night school when I was 16 and ran the University Photography Society. Both my learning and teaching experiences were around the craft and mechanics of film photography.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">My creative collaborations with my daughters have been very rewarding and the rules I have are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Children should have the permission and ability to use tools &#8211; their cameras or mine &#8211; as they see fit. I have a responsibility to teach them how to use them effectively.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">They have a veto on anything displayed publicly that includes them. They understand the various public\/friends\/family\/private settings in Flickr and what they mean. (I have a photo I\u2019d love to enter for a competition but C has said \u2018no\u2019 as it shows her weeping while her sister looks on smugly.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">I hope to move beyond photos of children looking cute \/ at parties \/ having fun \/ showing off. It can take a while but it\u2019s always worth it. It\u2019s fascinating to think about the conventions of child photography: studio pictures, mum\/dad pictures (especially on phone lock\/wallpaper screens!), pictures for grandparents. All have their place; all should be interrogated.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">I try to record life as it is lived. Beauty can be found in individual moments but more often it\u2019s the accumulation of moments that counts (again, so interesting on a formal level).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Huw Hitchin<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,times,serif; color: #000000;\"> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aleppo\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aleppo\/<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a parent creativity has re-entered my life formally (homework!) and informally (Dad, draw me a picture of a dinosaur), and it has been interesting to combine this with my own semi-artistic output: I have no formal training but studied photography at night school when I was 16 and ran the University Photography Society. Both&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/?p=453\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thoughts on children and art<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}