Art is also called plastic arts, visual arts, space arts and static arts. The basic education art curriculum refers to the art education curriculum and teaching in primary and secondary schools. It mainly includes art creation teaching activities and art appreciation teaching activities in and out of class. In the past, according to the main categories of professional art, the content of basic education art curriculum mainly included painting, sculpture, craft, architecture and other types. However, with the development of society, its category has also undergone new changes. Its category includes all works of art related to vision, artistic imagination and various visual images in daily life, including not only traditional knowledge and technology such as painting, sculpture, craft and architecture, but also emerging design, photography, video recording and future visual art works and phenomena, as well as various visual images that can construct and convey personal attitudes, beliefs and values in daily life. It also advocates cultivating students' visual reading, expression and communication ability through art study, and guiding students to learn to think and interpret various visual images in classic art works and life. The design of the course content in the art curriculum standard is divided into four learning areas according to the art learning mode: 1, and the "modeling and expression" learning area, which includes all the art activities related to visual modeling, such as various painting, sculpture forms, some manual activities in crafts, and labor activities in folk art, etc. It covers the basic modeling elements of art (line, shape, space, light and shade, texture, texture, color, composition and so on). 2. The study fields of "Design and Application" include modern design foundation and traditional arts and crafts. The basis of modern design mainly includes plane composition, three-dimensional composition, color composition, industrial design, visual communication design, clothing design, environmental art design and computer art design. Traditional arts and crafts mainly include basic patterns, metal crafts, bamboo crafts, knitting crafts, fiber crafts, paper crafts, clay ceramics and various folk arts and crafts. 3. The learning areas of "appreciation and criticism" include appreciation, identification and criticism (art criticism \ art criticism). 4. "Comprehensive inquiry" learning field, including the art learning field that guides students to actively explore, research, create and comprehensively solve problems through comprehensive art activities. It is divided into three levels: (1) integrating all learning fields of art; Art is combined with other disciplines; Art is connected with the real society. The three levels have different degrees of overlap and coincidence. According to the forms of expression, including painting, calligraphy, photography, sculpture, clay sculpture, camera, paper-cutting, design, seal cutting and so on. According to the source of works, it can be divided into classic art and popular art. In a word, the purpose of art courses in basic education is to cultivate citizens with high aesthetic quality.