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What is art education?
Art education is to learn some knowledge and skills about art and teach them to future students.

Art education is an important cultural and educational activity. It comes from people's desire to continue artistic culture, spread social knowledge, express inner feelings and meet aesthetic needs, and gradually matures with human progress and social development.

The German expression of art education is Kunsterziehung, and the English expression is art education. There are also many types of internal composition of art education. According to the classification made by the British Oxford Art Guide, art education can at least include the following categories: "education of professional painters and sculptors, education of enthusiasts, education of industrial design or craftsmen, and education of children.

The essence of art education lies in cultivating students' correct aesthetic view and improving their ability to feel, appreciate and create beauty. The new syllabus includes "give full play to the function of art teaching to cultivate emotions, strive to cultivate students' healthy aesthetic taste and improve their aesthetic ability." "

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The major of art education aims at cultivating all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique and aesthetics, systematically mastering the basic theory and knowledge of art and the necessary occupation and skills of art teachers, being able to better adapt to the reform and development of ethnic education, being competent for art teaching in primary schools, and taking into account the cultivation of practical and applied talents engaged in related work of art major.

Students can understand the purpose, significance and task of art teaching in primary or secondary schools by studying the textbooks and teaching methods of art classes in ordinary primary or secondary schools, and at the same time understand the purpose and needs of art education reform and curriculum construction in primary or secondary schools. Graduates can carry out art education and course teaching, and are competent for art education and teaching.

The professional study content includes sketch, color, sketch, oil painting, traditional Chinese painting, decorative painting, pottery, printmaking, calligraphy, mounting, seal cutting, graphic design, three-dimensional design, animation design and a series of art-related skills.

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