The psychological dimensions of childhood and its representations in Nikolai Bogdanov's drawings

Abstract

Research summary

This study, titled (The psychological dimensions of childhood and its representations in Nikolai Bogdanov's drawings), is concerned with investigating the psychological dimensions of childhood, searching for them in the works of this artist, and studying them through methodological frameworks and following procedural methods that rely on philosophical and aesthetic approaches.  

This study consists of four chapters:                                                                

         The first chapter (the methodological framework of the research): It includes first: the research problem, which raises the following question: What are the psychological dimensions of childhood in the drawings of the artist Nikolai Bokdanov? Second: The importance of research and the need for it. Third: The aim of the research: to know the psychological dimensions of childhood in the drawings of the artist Nikolai Bokdanov. Fourth: The limits of the research, which were limited to studying the artistic works of the artist Nikolai Bokdanov in Russia from the year (1895-1925). Fifth: Defining and defining the search terms.                        

           The third chapter dealt with (research procedures): The research community includes (50) models and its sample of (5) artistic works, the descriptive and analytical research method, the research tool, and the use of mathematical and statistical methods, as well as the analysis of the research sample models.                                                                              

           The fourth chapter: includes the research results, conclusions, recommendations and proposals, and the most prominent results reached by the research are:                                                                              

1. The colors were defined in two hues, green and brown, to indicate the intense sadness that prevails in the work due to poverty. As for the characters, they were characterized by their confused, sad, and mysterious character, which suggests deprivation of the painful memories that accompanied the artist in his childhood, as in model          

2. The artist’s projections dominated his artistic works, and we notice this in his interest in drawing school children in the Russian countryside, full of inner sadness and sadness. The movement of the children’s heads was often directed downward, indicating brokenness, anxiety, and fear, as in the model                                                                                                 

The research reached a set of conclusions, including:                                  

1. The life that the artist lived had a significant impact on him suffering from psychological disorders. It affected their behavior and was represented in their artistic works through psychological connotations of line, color, shape, space and texture.                                                                

2. The artist excelled in depicting the changing role of children in society through an equal artistic relationship, and in a realistic way, immersed in sadness, anxiety, and fear.                                                                                  

The research ended with a list of sources, references, appendices, and a summary and title of the research in English.