Art in the Eyes of Six-year-old Children. Children's Semantic Hypallages Regarding Paintings of Great Masters

The present article it will present six-year-olds’ statements about paintings by Salvador Dali, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso and Zdzisław Beksiński. The statements will constitute a foundation for the analysis embedded in semiotic perspective. Communication through image is an original dialogue ground between a child and an adult researcher. Semantic hypallages of meanings given by six-year-olds in the reception process of a painting show worlds full of meanings. The statement about a painting becomes a child’ s self-communication about its perception of the world, colloquial theories about reality and ideas inspired by a particular painting.