The masterpiece appreciatIon was studied as a painting activity of young
children to creatively express themselves.
The goal of this study is as follows.
1. How the masterpiece appreciation affects the development of creativity of
young children?
2. Does the masterpiece appreciation change the creative drawing expression
of young children?
At fIrst, the effects of masterpiece appreciation to young children's creativity
was examined. The results showed 60.84 for experimental group and 51.78 for
control group, which means that the experimental group children got higher record ?
for the enhancement of creativity. The results are statistically meaningful: t=5.648,
p < 0.001. Therefore, it is inferred that the masterpiece appreciation has positive
effects on the development of young children's creativity.
Secondly, the effects of the ability of young children's creative drawing
expression through masterpiece appreciation was investigated. The average was
2.76 for experimental group and 2.30 for control group, which means that the
experimental group has higher record than control group. The differences are
meaningfully in statistically : t=5.885, p < 0.001. From this, we deduced that the
masterpiece appreciation activity has positive effects on the development of young
children's ability of creative drawing expression.