Arts of Children in the remote areas in Sinai as a source of inspiration for printed textile design of children

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faculty of Applied Arts -Beni-Suef University

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Children in remote areas suffer from deprivation in many services, including cultural, artistic and creative activities, whereas, the support of children talents is a wealth and a factor of the renaissance of their societies, also the environment has a direct impact on children's creativity in these areas, which can be a rich source for textile printing designs of children, this research focused on supporting group of children from one of the remote coastal areas in Egypt in Sinai and the impact of the beauty of fertile coastal nature on their creativity and Benefiting from it as a source of inspiration for designing children's fabrics. the research problem is: How can we benefit from the arts of children in Egyptian remote areas in Sinai as a source of inspiration for printing designs for children's textiles?,The research aims to: discover and support children artistic talent in remote area in Sinai by workshops, achieving artistic analytical study of the aesthetic values of their art, Achieve a group of textile printing designs derived from their art and a questionnaire to know the extent to which these designs are accepted by children users.The importance of this research is to discover and support children talent of arts in remote area of Sinai and to benefit from their arts in the field of designing children's printed textile. Research methodology :Experimental method by a workshop with sample of children in Sinai to achieve art works inspired from their environment, Analytical method to children drawings(aesthetic values of line, color, modification).An Application by achieving a group of printing textile designs inspired from children drawings.A questionnaire to a children as a user research results confirms that Motivating children from remote areas has positive results in developing artistic talent fo children and to the designer in identifying child's favorite artistic features in designing children's fabrics, the importance of approaching the children's world and understanding its requirements is one of the important pillars of the designer, revealed questionnaire that children prefer designs with artistic and decorative elements that are inspired by their drawings from their environment and their imagination.
Keywords: child drawings- remote areas- innate creativity.

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