the movement away from symbolic representations

Stephen Hay on the classic designers should learn to code maxim. He sets it up nicely:

One thing you notice when hanging hundreds of paintings and drawing by kids, especially the younger ones, is that many tend to draw symbols of what they see. The dont draw the sun, they draw a circle with lines around it.

Then, maybe, you learn to draw:

Learning to look carefully at whats really there. Whats really happening. Circles on a wine glass become …

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