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Onfim's World: Child artists in history
Child artists in history
Another fragment shows Onfim next to a larger figure, with the caption: “This is my father.” Both father and son are drawn in a style that psychologists today might categorize as transitional between “tadpole” and conventional stick figures—each face cheerful, with disproportionately long limbs and spiky fingers fanning out like tiny rakes. Unlike Onfim’s playful schoolwork, these figures have an unsettling poignancy: children drawing themselves in their work attire, some wielding picks, others with sorrowful eyes staring into darkness. • It’s surprisingly hard to find a full archive of Onfim’s drawings online, but his Wikipedia page and the article by Baldy and Fabre(n French) is a good place to start.
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