Cai Yuanpei was the first education chief after the Revolution of 1911, and later became the president of Peking University. He is a famous democratic revolutionist, great educator, thinker and patriot in the modern history of our country.
Cai Yuanpei believes that "citizens with cultural progress should popularize art education since they implement science education", "aesthetic educators should aim at applying aesthetic theory to education and cultivating emotions" and "aesthetic education is put forward because aesthetic feeling is universal and can break the prejudice between people and me; Aesthetics is transcendence, which can break the scruples of life and death, and special attention should be paid in education. " This view is still of great significance after nearly a hundred years of lack of faith and today's economy.
Art education is an emotional education to meet children's aesthetic and emotional needs.
Children are naturally in need of art education. They are curious about the world and like to explore, which is the performance of this demand. Art activities provide children with an opportunity for emotional exchange and satisfaction and become their favorite activities. Children can freely express their views, express their inner feelings and feel the joy of communicating with others through art, thus obtaining a kind of spiritual satisfaction.
Artistic creation is an operational education to cultivate children's coordinated activities of eyes, brain and hands.
What society needs now is people who use both hands and brains, which is the so-called "whole brain thinking". Artistic creation is a process in which the eyes, brain and hands are used together. Children perceive nature with various senses, imagine, understand and process objective things with their brains, operate tools and materials with their hands, and express their aesthetic feelings, thoughts and feelings, and what they see and hear. Children convey their feelings about the beauty of nature to others through the cooperation of eyes, brains and hands. Since the primitive society, human beings have realized human progress and social development through constant thinking and making tools.
The invention of pottery is that ancient ancestors gradually understood and mastered the plasticity of clay in the process of reclamation and contact with soil, and learned that clods became hard after barbecue in the long-term practice of using fire, so humans tried to make clay into clay blanks and burn them into liquid-holding and fire-resistant pottery. The firing of pottery changes the chemical properties of raw materials through the heating of fire, which is an epoch-making invention obtained by manual production and brain thinking in the struggle with nature.
Art education is conducive to cultivating children's sound personality.
Artistic creation is one of the best ways for children to build up their self-confidence, and they get a free and happy experience in their creation. Creation is also inseparable from children's personality and exists independently. Children's different personalities can also be reflected in their love of various art training contents. For example, children who like lively rhythm have many extroverts, and children who like quiet painting have many introverts. Teachers can discover and understand each child's unique personality through the teaching process of various works of art, and influence and promote the formation of their healthy personality through art education. The process of creation and works can make children feel satisfied, which is an important source of personal accomplishment.
It can be seen that art education plays a vital role in children's all-round development. Through art education, we can fully tap the potential of the brain, balance intuition and abstraction, emotion and rationality, irrationality and rationality, and lay a complete personality foundation. In the future, expressive ability and creativity will be people's necessary aesthetic qualities, which show people's subjective side, fully tap children's artistic and aesthetic potential for David's art, provide children with a free and relaxed creative environment, and make them fully developed.