By the "landscape montage technique", 480 landscape pictures were sketched by subjects from kindergarten children through university, students. Ten types of disposition of river with relation to a ...frame as a fence in order of the development; the fiver along the bottom frame; between left and right frames; between top and bottom ; at the bottom corner; between top and side; between bottom and side; the tapering river; etc, and characteristics of landscape spatial composition according to the types were clarified.
Architectural Space Montage Technique was designed by the authors. The subject's mental schema is represented by spatial composition of miniatures on a 60 cm by 90 cm white plate. The scale for ...miniatures, such as furniture, people, trees, flowers and many kinds of standardized walls, is 1 to 50. In this experiment twenty-four kindergarten children made 40 models and drawings of the kindergarten. By analyzing each model, the drawing and the children, we clarified characteristics of many types of schema, such as the enclosure of space before structuralization, the birth of the structure, the organization of space.
This study was undertaken to find out (1) what operations one had to carry out beforehand for successful actual drawing of the geometric figures, and (2) what kinds of tasks were useful to get such ...operations. We set two experiments so that Sub. T (CA 5:6, PIQ 52, VIQ 112, PQ 67) might draw an oblique line and a triangle successfully. The results showed that the operation we originally named "tentative drawing", a trial drawing with a forefinger or eye movement, was requisite before actual drawing with the general instrument like a pen. It was then suggested that "tentative drawing" enabled him to anticipate the result of actual drawing as well as to avoid the error drawing in advance. In addition, this "tentative drawing" was acquired through the "ball task" which required to draw the slope on which a ball would roll down into the glass. This fact suggested that the manner of figure drawing was come into his mind and then established in advance by imaging the movement of a rolling ball along the slope in the "ball task".
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