Connotation:
Aesthetic education takes art and various forms of beauty as concrete media means, and directly affects the emotional world of the educated by showing the rich value and significance of the object, thus subtly shaping the perfect human nature.
Core: create a specific scene, show the aesthetic characteristics of the object, and influence and edify the educated.
Aesthetic education belongs to humanistic education, and its goal is to develop perfect human nature; Aesthetics is absolutely necessary for people's spiritual freedom and the perfection of human nature. Without aesthetic activities, people can't achieve spiritual freedom, people can't achieve the perfection of human nature, and people are not real people. Aesthetic activities give people spiritual enjoyment, spiritual satisfaction and spiritual pleasure. Make people return to the spiritual home where everything is integrated, so as to feel that they are a real person.
Aesthetic education can make people pursue the perfection of human nature, that is, learn to experience life, make themselves feel a meaningful and interesting life, and have unlimited love and joy for life, so as to sublimate their spiritual realm and get all-round development.
The function of aesthetic education:
1. Cultivate aesthetic mentality (aesthetic attitude)
Aesthetic attitude is a special way to treat the world. It is the premise for the aesthetic subject to enter aesthetic activities. There is no shortage of beauty in the world, what is lacking is the eyes that find beauty.
2. Cultivate aesthetic ability
Aesthetic ability refers to aesthetic feeling ability and aesthetic intuition ability. That is, the ability to feel the infinitely rich perceptual world and its rich implications. In the instantaneous aesthetic intuition, the scene blends with the scenery to generate aesthetic images, which are accompanied by aesthetic pleasure.
It needs a person's overall cultural accomplishment as the foundation, and needs to be cultivated through the practice of directly participating in aesthetic activities (including artistic activities), which has a very internal relationship with a person's life experience.
3. Cultivate aesthetic taste
As the sum of aesthetic preference, aesthetic standard and aesthetic ideal, aesthetic taste restricts a person's aesthetic behavior, determines a person's aesthetic orientation, and profoundly affects the generation of "beauty" in the image world in every aesthetic experience. And a person's aesthetic taste in all aspects, as a whole, forms an aesthetic style, or aesthetic taste.