繪畫是孩子表達自我的方式之一，它能激發兒童有意識或無意識地進行聯想，畫作中內含他們情感的變化，體現他與周圍事物的互動關係，反映著他們所見、所聽、所想。同時，也能讓不善於口語表達的孩子們可以通過用色彩、線條和形狀的方式將想法訴諸展現於畫上。

孩子的內心畫，往往也是他們內心話。不同年齡段的孩子對事物的認識、表達、反應都不同，故瞭解他們方式也不同。孩子在創作時有自己的觀點，許多獨特的繪畫語言常出乎大人的意料之外，理解他們的畫作，也是了解他們身心發展的方式之一。而除一般兒童之外，彷彿身處在另一個想像國度的自閉症孩子及身心障礙藝術家，他們擁有一個異乎尋常的感知世界，在未受學院影響及專業訓練下，作品卻自成一格，顯現出強烈自發性與創造性的特徵。法國藝術家杜布菲(Jean Dubuffet) 曾對此類作品提出觀察，並名之為「原生藝術」，意示其作品以最直覺、純粹的創作方式，真切的傳遞出他們生命底層的思想與心靈狀態。看他們的畫作往往可以看到刻板重複，色彩濃烈，但又充滿想像力的
強烈印象，完全不受傳統藝術框架侷限，而肇始於自己內在的驅動力，作品總是吸引觀者好奇與無垠的想像空間。

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可以說，兒童畫與原生藝術的作品，在繪畫的發展上，皆有其無拘無束、恣意想像，卻又充滿各種獨特思考表達的特質，人類的心靈在繪畫的國度各有其百花齊放的豐盛面貌，但從兒童畫與原生藝術作品中，是我們進入這個單純直接卻又奇思妙想世界的鑰匙，打開它，可以看到「畫中畫」，更可以感受到「畫中話」。

本館典藏有「中華民國兒童美術教育學會」自2007 年慨然捐贈，逾50 年之「中華民國世界兒童畫展」的美麗畫作近2 萬幅，這批重要的國家寶藏，記載著來自世界各地兒童純真動人的心靈軌跡，觀看這些畫作時，往往能讓我們找回童心，心生喜悅；而同樣由本館辦理之「教育部藝術教育貢獻獎」，透過實地訪視過程中，驚喜地發現高雄市立楠梓特殊學校在推動原生藝術的驚人成果，這些身心障礙孩子們在師長們耐心與愛心的陪伴下，彷彿構築了另一個充滿奇花異草的藝術花園，在他們純粹且充滿原創性的作品中，讓我們驚嘆且感動，因為在每一位原生藝術家的畫作之外，他們的故事更啟示著我們，對每一個獨特生命發展的最大尊重。

兒童畫及原生藝術，就在本館典藏與學校訪視的因緣中，透過本展成就了彼此，也融合了彼此！我們期待，這場純真與純粹相遇，藝術教育與藝術療癒共融的展覽，能讓所有觀者感受到，不管在生理或心理上的孩提時期，他們以單純的線條及色彩，以直覺的認知及情感，以自由不羈的創造力所留下美麗軌跡是多麼精彩動人！從本展中也想跟大家分享，重拾起畫筆，我們也可以一起找回童心，找到自己那個最初，最單純，也最愛畫畫的自己！

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Painting is one of the ways for children to express themselves, it can stimulate children to consciously or unconsciously make associations, the painting contains changes in their emotions, reflects their interaction with the surrounding things, reflects what they see, hear, think. At the same time, children who are not good at oral expression can express their ideas in the form of colors, lines and shapes.

Children's inner paintings are often their inner words. Children of different ages have different understandings, expressions, and reactions to things, so they understand them in different ways. Children have their own opinions when creating, and many unique drawing languages are often unexpected by adults, and understanding their paintings is also one of the ways to understand their physical and mental development.

In addition to ordinary children, autistic children and artists with disabilities seem to be in another imaginary country, they have an unusual perception world, but without the influence of the academy and professional training, their
works are self-contained, showing strong spontaneity and creativity. French artist Jean Dubuffet has observed such works and called them "Native Art", which means that his works truly convey the thoughts and mental states of their
lives in the most intuitive and pure creative way. Looking at their paintings, you can often see a strong impression of rigidity and repetition, strong color, but full of imagination, completely not limited by the traditional art framework, and
caused by their own internal driving force, the works always attract the viewer's curiosity and boundless imagination.

It can be said that children's art and outsider art, in the development of painting, have their unrestrained, arbitrary imagination, but full of a variety of unique thinking and expression characteristics, human minds in the country of painting has its different forms of manifestation, but from children's paintings and native art works, is our key to enter this simple and direct but whimsical world, open it, you can see the picture-in-picture, but also feel the words in the picture.

The center has nearly 20,000 beautiful paintings donated by Association for Education through Art of the Republic of China since 2007, and the School Children's Art Exhibition of ROC for more than 50 years, this important national treasure records the innocent and moving spiritual trajectory of children from all over the world. The Ministry of Education Art Education Contribution Award, also administered by the museum, was pleasantly surprised to find the amazing results of Kaohsiung Municipal Nanzi Special School in promoting native art during the field visit, and these children with physical and mental disabilities, accompanied by the patience and love of their teachers, seemed to build another art garden full of exotic flowers and plants, in their pure and original works, we were amazed and moved, because in addition to the paintings of each native artist, their stories inspired us. The utmost respect for the development of each unique life.

Children's art and outsider art, through this exhibition, have achieved and integrated each other through this exhibition, in the cause of the center's collection and school visits! We hope that this exhibition of the encounter between innocence and purity, art education and art healing, can make all viewers feel how wonderful and moving they left with their simple lines and colors, intuitive cognition and emotions, and free creativity in their childhood, whether in physical or psychological childhood! From this exhibition, I also want to share with you, pick up the brush again, we can also find our childlike heart together, find our original, simplest, and most loving self to paint!

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