China's children's art education started in the late 1970s and has been developing for nearly 20 years. The economic prosperity brought by modernization, the national atmosphere of attaching importance to education and China's one-child policy have made this cause develop vigorously and rapidly. At present, tens of millions of children receive amateur, professional and other forms of art education, and various art training classes and schools have emerged. However, due to the relatively backward theoretical research on children's art education, the quality of teachers engaged in children's art education is not high, and there are widespread deviations and misleading in children's art education, and the tendency of children's art to be patterned, adult and assimilated is quite serious.

There are three popular teaching modes in children's art education at present. The first is the "stick figure" teaching method. Some teachers take the teaching material of stick figure as a model to stereotype and model the shape, composition and color, and children's painting becomes a combination of passive copying and stereotype. Children's works are like a mold, while dolls are mostly painted with big eyes and small mouths, and houses are triangular and rectangular. Fixed shape, specified color, a thousand people, lifeless and creative.

The second is the "repeated training" teaching method. Teachers are good at a certain kind of painting, such as ink landscape painting or ink flower-and-bird painting. The disciples he taught repeatedly trained this technique, which made them reach a very skilled level. A group of young painters with the same style as this teacher have been trained, or so-called "prodigies" who can draw "Xu Beihong's horse" and "Qi Baishi's shrimp".

The third is the teaching method of "professional skills training". These teachers regard the cultivation of professional painting knowledge and skills as the purpose of children's learning painting, just for their children to enter professional colleges and eventually become painters in the future. Therefore, the courses of professional colleges are forcibly moved here, dealing with naive and lively children prematurely, mechanically asking them to draw still life, plaster, sketch, copy adult works, and tell some painting rules and profound theories that even students in professional colleges can't understand, which makes students feel bored and doze off. The painted works are just classroom exercises with solid kung fu, lacking "aura". The above teaching rules focus on knowledge and skills.

Of course, we don't deny the importance of children mastering certain painting knowledge and skills when learning painting. Knowledge and skills are the main contents of art class. However, learning pen and ink skills is not the only purpose and all content of learning painting. If a teacher only teaches knowledge and technology, then no matter how well he teaches, he can only be regarded as a second-rate teacher at best, and the training class he runs can only be called "skills training class" at best, not children's art education. Since it's called children's art education. The word "education" is the most important, which contains much richer and deeper contents. First of all, the object of education is living people, not tools to master technology. The purpose of education is to educate people rather than just instill knowledge. The purpose of education is to make children develop in an all-round way through education. In the book Creation and Mental Growth, Victor Rothfeld, an American art educator, divides children's personal growth characteristics into seven observation points: intellectual growth, emotional growth, social growth, perceptual growth, physical growth, aesthetic growth and creative growth. "This is very enlightening for those of us who are engaged in children's art education.

Specifically, I think children's art education should focus on cultivating children's artistic feeling and self-feeling, which is based on the fact that children's art education is a kind of aesthetic education, and its purpose is not to train a few professional technicians and painters, but to train a group of aesthetic high-quality talents needed by 2 1 century. Let them learn to see beauty from the most ordinary things from childhood, and also know how to create beauty with ordinary things around them. Let them have a positive and happy attitude towards life, not just practical value, but also let them face life with beautiful feelings and let their body and mind develop in an all-round and healthy way.

So, what is artistic feeling? Artistic sense is also called artistic temperament. Whether people have artistic sense or not is very different. Some people think that artistic sense is mainly innate, but I think it is more important to cultivate artistic sense, especially to cultivate it consciously from childhood. Artistic feelings include "sentimentality" and "romantic detachment".

People with artistic temperament are more sentimental than ordinary people. "Affectionate" means rich feelings. Emotion is the most important factor in art. Without emotion, there is no art. On the one hand, people's feelings are innate, and people have worldly desires. It's natural. On the other hand, it is acquired, especially some noble and beautiful feelings and some social feelings are cultivated through emotional education. For example, love life, love life, love nature, love the motherland, love all beautiful things and so on. Through education, let children change from ignorance to understanding, from plain feelings to strong feelings, which is just like brewing wine. Therefore, in aesthetic education, teachers should consciously carry out emotional education, pay attention to cultivating children's beautiful, healthy and rich emotions, let them know love and hate, be compassionate, and cultivate their sentiments with all kinds of beautiful human feelings. For example, when a teacher teaches a child to draw, a friend immediately picks a flower for the teacher. At this time, the teacher not only took this flower as a demonstration, taught the students how to draw flowers, but also told the friends that the flower mother was very sad to see her child's broken leg, and the flower child was also very painful and would die soon. The children received emotional education and drew a picture of mother Hua hugging flower girl.

Usually, people's feelings are in a relatively calm and restrained state. In art education, teachers should consciously create an atmosphere, strive to stimulate children's feelings, and make them emotional, impulsive, passionate and sometimes even crazy. A good teacher is like a catalyst at this moment, which makes the students excited. Never limit and suppress children's feelings, but guide them to express, express and vent as much as possible. In a sense, the task of art teachers is to teach students to express and express their feelings in the form of painting.

"Good feeling" is easy to be emotional and moved. People with artistic temperament are often full of feelings, so seeing anything can stir up emotional waves in his heart, or move his feelings to other things, which is called empathy in aesthetics. Children's feelings are also purer and richer. In their eyes, many things are alive and emotional. Teachers should not be too calm in teaching, but also be full of passion and touch them with noble and beautiful feelings.