ABSTRACT
Man shows aesthetic feeling in three distinct forms, viz. receptive, imitative and creative. The satisfaction given by imaginative creation as such, the power of illusion to carry above and beyond the narrow bounds of reality, and to create an imaginary world amidst hard everyday fact, these bring artist and art-lover into close relationship with the child. There are children who, at an exceptionally early age evince silent delight at musical sounds, others again who possess a keen feeling for harmony of colour and of light and shade. Ideas are something different from percepts, but they are closely connected with them, and develop on perceptional foundations, and it is the special task of child-psychology to follow gradual process of growth and to find out the positive part played by concrete perception as starting-point for abstract thought-activity. The successive differentiation of the individual categories then begins, but still in the child-like diffuse manner.
