Early childhood is the period when people's artistic talent begins to appear, which has a multiplier effect on children's art education. Through art education, we can improve children's ability to feel, appreciate, evaluate and create natural beauty, social life beauty and artistic beauty, and cultivate healthy aesthetic taste and keen aesthetic perception. Enriching emotions, making children love life, art and all beautiful things since childhood, which occupies a very important position in children's education and is an indispensable content and an important means and way for children's all-round development.
Art education is an emotional education to meet children's aesthetic and emotional needs.
Children are active and have a strong sense of discovery. Art activities provide children with an opportunity for emotional exchange and satisfaction. Children use these external symbols, such as singing, dancing, playing the piano and performing, to freely express their views, express their inner feelings, and feel the joy of communicating with others through art, thus obtaining a spiritual satisfaction and a sense of self-affirmation.
Artistic creation is the operation of cultivating children's hand, eyes and brain to coordinate activities.
Zankov, an educator in the Soviet Union, thinks that what society needs is people who can use their hands and brains, that is, the so-called "whole brain thinking". Artistic creation is a process of using hands, eyes and brains, which requires children to perceive aesthetic objects with multiple senses, imagine, understand and process aesthetic images with brains, express aesthetic feelings with language, and express their aesthetic feelings, thoughts and feelings and what they see and hear with tools and materials.
Art education is conducive to cultivating children's sound personality.
Children's different personalities can also be reflected in their love of various art training contents. For example, children who like lively rhythm have more extroverted elements, while children who like quiet painting have more introverted tendencies. Teachers can discover and understand each child's unique personality in the teaching process, and influence and promote the formation of their healthy personality through art education. The creative process and works can satisfy children, which is an important source of personal cultivation. Artistic creation plays an important role in forming children's self-awareness and good moral quality.
Art education helps to develop children's brain potential
In childhood, the brain is developing. At this time, it is necessary to use novel and vivid information to stimulate intelligence and prevent and avoid fatigue. Children's art, dance, music and other artistic creations have both. Children's appropriate participation in artistic creation activities will promote the sound development of the brain. The function of art education is holistic, and the cultivated spatial perception and intuitive thinking ability are not only necessary for smart and sound people, but also promote the left brain language function. Therefore, the special significance of art education is that it is conducive to the all-round development of brain potential, not only to children learning other disciplines, but also to adapting to future work and life.
Children's art education is an important part of children's all-round development and emotional education to meet children's aesthetic and emotional needs. It is helpful to cultivate the coordinated activities of children's hands, eyes and brain, cultivate their sound personality and develop their brain potential.