Kaleidoscopic Days : Fine Art in Early Childhood

<p>&lsquo;<b>Kaleidoscopic Days</b>&rsquo;: A beautiful short book that particularly concerns with the story of a child named Acku who builds his own space&ndash;time a canvas that is to be filled with colors; and delves under his own created art world. In the book the boundaries between art by children and modern-contemporary art are also addressed to some extent through a visually rich narrative.<br/>His creation of art is not only an attempt to communicate but to enjoy the process of creation itself. In this way he discovers his own symbols colors way of drawing and self art language. He discovered somehow a beautiful medium of expression a randomness of shapes and color that is beyond his control but perhaps it was the beginning of his discovery of the irrational and hence the abstract. He gravitated toward abstraction in his own way. In his childhood boldness he followed his own fascination of arbitrary forms with their chromatic sweeps. Some of his works invoke indirect visual references such as the sheer brilliance of vivid Rajasthani colors of the fabric or colorful flying kites which perhaps shaped his sense of aesthetic as a child.</p>