Review article
https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v21i0.3453
Mandala Patterns in Nature – Incentives for Artistic Expression and Possible Development of the Intuitive Nature of Awareness in a Preschool Child
Petra Vidović
orcid.org/0000-0003-1462-8547
; Kindergarten Mali princ
Stjepko Rupčić
; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Teacher Education
Abstract
Vitally creative forces in nature enable growth, leaving reflections – matrices in their material manifestations. In nature, one of the most remarkable is the central composition of the (natural) mandala. The article refers to the known attributes of the mandala - for the purposes of treatment, potentially establishing balance between the four functions of consciousness: intuition, feeling, sensation and thinking. It leads the human to wholeness and a harmonious and balanced relationship with the self. The results of the research conducted with preschool children, who used mandala compositions as incentives, are presented. The paper shows that a creative gene of the very nature’s character, through the matrix of the mandala, can be associated with the possibility to successfully motivate children’s attention and encourage them to perform art work upon observation, owing to the psyche’s structure being innately developed in humans since birth, and which children intuitively experience.
Keywords
artistic expression; consciousness; intuition; mandala; preschool age
Hrčak ID:
229371
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Publication date:
13.9.2019.
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