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Cubism
Paul Cezanne founded the school of cubism. It is "sculpture in painting." Its effect is multi-dimensional, light and shadow reflecting from many planes. Viewers are attracted to touch the painting, they move from side to side to appreciate the effect. Cubism is best applied on man-made structures, undulating landscapes, clouds piling up, the sun at 45 degrees incline, Young Mackie plays with Lego, builds the tallest tower, strongest castle. But her masterpiece is cut-and-paste art, cut out paper as building blocks, defying gravity, mortise and tenon hold, permanence and monotony. To a child a pyramid is a kite or umbrella. What then is cubism as an art? ![]()
Hieroglyphics
One origin of language is Hieroglyphs - alphabets in figures and images, used by the ancient Egyptians. Mackie's hieroglyphs are spontaneous, bearing collective images from a formative mind. The young artist is happy as shown by the dominance of hearts, a pet lover (she has a pair a rabbits at home), inquisitive as shown by open ended circles like question marks. Squares and trapezoids are consistent with cubism as shown in her works. Equidistant figures without overlap and correction are indicative of good character, potential abilities in the realms of logic, spatial art and naturalism. 
Composition
First, have the necessary parts as components to be able to compose a story, a poem, a play, and in the case of Mackie, a drawing or painting. While organization has things in common with composition, they are not the same. Organization is formal and strict, it is structural and measurable, but it may not touch the senses, much less the psyche, the seat of art. It may not sink deep into "the heart that throbs, and into the soul that soars to the sky. " Composition is the most important tool of the artist - in music, the visual and performing art, in literature. Mackie demonstrates organization in the first drawing, and composition in the lower drawing. How do you differentiate the two? Only an artist can find out the difference spontaneously, putting himself into the shoes of the artist herself.
Ultraviolet and X-ray
On the other side of the rainbow are invisible rays of light. They don't pass through the prism that produces ROYGBIV. Can an artist perceive these rays? Can you paint x-ray images? Mackie does. Can you perceive the ultraviolet rays and convert them into art? Only Claude Monet, as far as I have researched on, can do that. But under one condition. That is when the artist had reached the edge of vision. There at the edge of light and darkness lies certain wavelengths called ultraviolet and others of the same wavelength magnitude. To me, only a child artist has the power of a Monet with one difference. Mackie painted at dawn, Monet at dusk.
Companionship
What makes a masterpiece? It is altruism, compassion, love, oneness. Mother and Child, in many versions, is perhaps the most intimate portrayal of relationship beteen two people. To Mackie, her drawing is an image of herself and her younger brother, Markus. With a thick red crayon, she was able to portray a genuine sibling relationship with few parts: 2 circles (heads), 2 rectangles (bodies), 10 lines (hands, feet), 4 dots (eyes), few fuzzy strokes (hair, collar). I wonder how a grownup would express such kind of intimacy - if ever he could.
Fantasy
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Is it? To artists, yes. To teachers, this may apply to specific cases. In history and science, shudder at the thought of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the remote possibility of a global nuclear war. What is the saving grace of this sleep rousing dream? Dreams are imaginations in our unconscious state. Here come a Little Pony over valleys and mountains, and over the rainbow. What a beautiful world it is to a child artist. How I wish this magical pet would rescue thousands of children in war-torn Syria, Yemen and Marawi. To millions of children all over the world separated from their parents with little food to eat and no home, many of them abandoned. They are the lost generation in our midst. Hence, the different versions of Mackie's My Little Pony. Can you interpret her versions in these drawings? 
Aesthetic of Beauty
The dictionary defines aesthetics as "the philosophical study of beauty and taste. It is closely related to the philosophy of art, which is concerned with the nature of art and the concepts in terms of which individual works of art are interpreted and evaluated." In my own interpretation, aesthetics of beauty is exemplified in Venus de Milo, the armless Greek Goddess. It is her incompleteness that is intriguing. Artists tried to restore her arms only to surrender to her original state. And the thought of her garments falling adds a sensuous feeling to many viewers. But Mackie's version of aesthetic beauty is pure, innocent and true, in the form of flowers awashed with the morning sun. Beauty to a child artist is simple yet full and devoid of grownup philosophy. "Beauty," after all, "is in the eyes of the beholder." To Mackie, beauty is unique, you won't mistake a rose from other flowers. True to Gertrude Stein, a famous writer and artist, who said when asked what a rose is - "A rose, is a rose, is a rose, is a rose." I'd like to go further, beauty builds upon beauty, ad infinitum. ~
The dictionary defines aesthetics as "the philosophical study of beauty and taste. It is closely related to the philosophy of art, which is concerned with the nature of art and the concepts in terms of which individual works of art are interpreted and evaluated." In my own interpretation, aesthetics of beauty is exemplified in Venus de Milo, the armless Greek Goddess. It is her incompleteness that is intriguing. Artists tried to restore her arms only to surrender to her original state. And the thought of her garments falling adds a sensuous feeling to many viewers. But Mackie's version of aesthetic beauty is pure, innocent and true, in the form of flowers awashed with the morning sun. Beauty to a child artist is simple yet full and devoid of grownup philosophy. "Beauty," after all, "is in the eyes of the beholder." To Mackie, beauty is unique, you won't mistake a rose from other flowers. True to Gertrude Stein, a famous writer and artist, who said when asked what a rose is - "A rose, is a rose, is a rose, is a rose." I'd like to go further, beauty builds upon beauty, ad infinitum. ~