This chapter considers how the work of prominent child psychologists can provide insight into how and why children of a certain age show distinctly oral patterns of speech and behaviour, which is reflected within their artistic endeavours. It is shown how the distinct stages of language development in childhood, is reflected by shifts in terms of a child’s capacity to render reality within their art. The child artist who resides within what Piaget designates as the ‘egocentric’ phase has accumulated a substantial degree of language and logic, but does not possess language to a degree that they can be considered literate. The egocentric phase thus reflects a highly introverted mode of language and expression, which is reflected in a mode of art which is similarly distorted by a misbalance inwards, towards the ego, rather than outwards, to representational reality. It is shown how as language is acquired and developed to a sufficient degree, the child’s visual art similarly demonstrates a sudden shift towards mimetic representation.