ANALYSIS OF THE APPRECIATION OF CHILDREN AGED 9 AND 10 YEARS OLD TOWARD “WOT BATU” BY SUNARYO

• Main Author: Liummah, Khairunnisa
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/67576
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Children aged 9- and 10-year-olds tend to see works of art as replicas of reality. However, the forms of contemporary art are now very diverse. This study aims to understand how children aged 9 and 10 years appreciate contemporary works of art, Wot Batu as well as the internal and external factors that influenced the form of appreciation for each child. The decision to choose 2 children as samples was due to deepen the influence of internal and external factors in each sample. Data was collected through observations of children that was facing the artworks, Visual Thinking Strategies method, and interviews with samples. The data were analyzed qualitatively using the theory of children's appreciation of art by Laura Schneebaum and Gardner-Winner, the theory of appreciation level by Primadi Tabrani, and the theory of children's creativity by Elizabeth B. Hurlock. The result shows that children appreciate works of art through verbal, movement, and cognitive. Verbal appreciation is shown through expressions of admiration, questions about the work, as well as statements of opinion regarding the work and matters relating to the work. Motion appreciation is shown by touching, demonstrating the creation of the work, as well as by unconscious movement that explores the work in form. Cognitive appreciation is shown by the child's ability to describe the work in terms of form, manufacturing process, size, similarities with real objects, as well as metaphors that are understood from the work. The stages of appreciation of the sample are in accordance with their age, namely the concrete operational stage and the stage of feeling into content with the work. External factors that influence the appreciation are birth order, gender, support for activities aside from school, the closeness of the parents to the art world, the socio-economic background, and support for each child's hobbies. Given intervention by the guide are asking questions about the work to children, providing stimulation in the form of information on the theme of the work as a whole, information about the content of the work, and providing opportunities to see the work as a whole and its relationship to the surrounding elements. The results of this study can be used for educators in art exhibition halls as the basis for children's education programs and outcomes that can be achieved by children with certain criteria.