Childish innocence refers to the pure and untainted nature of children. It reflects their naivety, lack of experience, and their ability to see the world in a simple and uncomplicated way.
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Is not this belief in providence, then, a piece
of childish innocence, which has not yet reached maturity and has not yet opened its eyes to the misery and suffering of life?
Brushed
with childish innocence, she runs the gamut of womanhood, transforming from a vivacious spirit to a hollow soul.
The naivety,
the childish innocence.
Schütte's faces may from time to time express
a childish innocence, but just as often he shows us features that have grown hard and are hungry for power.»
As promised, Tunga's Siamese Hair Twins was a particularly eerie edition to the fair, as the performing children's slightly anachronistic dress gave their presence an even more alien aura than in previous iterations, and placed against the backdrop of collectors, advisors and dealers in the fair's opening hours, the artist's twisted emblem of
childish innocence was all the more potent.
There is
a childish innocence at play here, vivid bright colours run throughout the work, images and shapes that resemble amoebas or misshaped globes are often repeated.