Abstract
The work of the masters of modernism — V. Kandinsky and P. Klee are analyzed. It is shown that in their creative search their own childhood memories and impressions, as well as children›s drawing, were of great importance. The perception of the world by a child has the qualities of syncretism, when the personal and transpersonal (timeless, archetypical) are combined into a single picture of the world that artists of the turn of the century sought to acquire. It was revealed that the appeal to the expressiveness of the children›s drawing of artists-reformers took place due to the “psychological stress” of the heightened perception of the world — a special revival of the unconscious, striving for the One, and a strong orientation to the Ego.Comparison of works of masters of the first half of the twentieth century with the works of modern children allowed to identify common features of the artistic process of the creative personality of a professional artist with the universal work of a child, free from the pressure of the cultural canon of time, which consist in the introduction of timeless archetypes of the universe and being. The typological tables show the connection of the works of V. Kandinsky and P. Klee of various degrees of abstraction with the works of children of different ages. It is revealed that the more abstract the composition of the master, the less the age of the young author in the analogy of the children›s drawing.