Arno Stern’s Painting game at the Ateliê Pintante of the Instituto da Primeira Infância (IPREDE/CE)
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This article presents the theoretical and practical principles of Arno Stern’s Painting Game (Stern, , [19--], 1974, 1978, 2011, 2016) and the reverberations of this practice in the Extension Project “Ateliê Pintante,” a partnership between the Federal University of Ceará (UFC, acronym in Portuguese) and the Institute for Early Childhood (IPREDE/CE, acronym in Portuguese), with children in extreme social vulnerability, through empirical research. The “Painting Game” takes place in a unique studio, the “Closlieu” (from the French “sheltered place”), and provides free expression and the development of children’s imagination, who “play” with gestures, shapes, and colors in their spontaneous creations. It was concluded that the “Painting Game” significantly contributes to the creation of a space of self-confidence, autonomy, and freedom, essential for the creative process of children, who find in this game the opportunity and suitable conditions for their self-expression and self-formation through painting.
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