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DRAWING FROM MEMORY
Kim Dingle, United Shapes of
America III (Maps of U.S. Drawn
by Las Vegas Teenagers). 1994.
Oil on panel, 48ΓÇ¥ x 6ΓÇÖ. (Courtesy
of the artist and Blum & Poe,
Santa Monica, CA.)
Drawing or painting from
memory is even more difficult
than copying figures. The
constancy problem is probably a
major reason again, all the
more so because in drawing
from memory it is not possible
to make use of proximal-mode
perception of the scene. Thus if
we are trying to draw an object
or scene and we remember it or
imagine it on the basis of how
things look, it is likely to be
difficult indeed to draw in
terms of the laws of perspective
projection.
It is probably true, as has
been suggested by the art
historian E. H. Gombrich and
others, that we tend to draw
what we know. This is all the
more likely to occur in
children. Therefore, if a young
child makes a drawing of the
street in which he or she lives,
a typical example might not
look like a picture in
perspective. Instead, the child
might depict the streets from
above, and then show two-
dimensional drawings of the
houses from the side as they are
seen from the streets. Laying
out the objects in such a way,
so as to show them in their
most representational view,
might be regarded more as a
rather intelligent solution
than as an error. To some
extent, children may depict
objects in this way even when
asked to copy something.