First, change ideas and establish a comprehensive and scientific concept of educating people. For many years, art education in rural schools has been restricted by traditional concepts. On the one hand, the educational consciousness of educational administrators is backward; On the other hand, the teachers are insufficient, and the corresponding teaching facilities are lacking or not giving full play to the effect of making the best use of people and things. Art education in primary and secondary schools is an integral part of universal compulsory education in China, and it is an enlightenment education, which plays an important role in cultivating students' comprehensive quality and innovative ability. The practice of art education proves that studying art plays a unique educational role in cultivating students' keen observation ability and good thinking ability, carrying out aesthetic education for students, improving their aesthetic ability and promoting intellectual development. Therefore, to attach importance to art education, educators should have a long-term vision and a comprehensive and scientific concept of educating people. Second, stabilize and strengthen the construction of teaching staff and improve the conditions for running schools. Rural middle school teachers are weak, and most of them are part-time. Therefore, schools should strengthen the construction of art teachers and do a good job in teacher training. Teachers who have hobbies and interests in art and can basically take art classes are regularly trained in sketch, color, ink painting and art history, so as to continuously improve the comprehensive quality of art teachers. In training, we should give full play to the leading role of teachers with strong professional ability and improve teachers' artistic quality through various channels such as going out and coming in. In addition, teachers should be encouraged to constantly sum up experience, tap local culture, make local teaching materials, mobilize all positive factors, study the problems faced by art education with a scientific attitude and enterprising spirit, and comprehensively carry out local teaching with different characteristics. Third, attach importance to art classroom teaching and extracurricular activities. The reform of art class must take the road of reform and innovation, and the use of teaching materials by teachers should shift from tradition to analysis, understanding, use and research. Teaching methods should give full play to teachers' specialties, respect students' hobbies, make use of what students like and accept, and make the best use of the situation. The teaching content should also be changed from simple painting teaching to cultivating students' knowledge of calligraphy, paper-cutting, watercolor, printmaking, ink painting and art history. Classroom art teaching form is an important aspect of aesthetic education for students, while extracurricular art teaching is a useful supplement and improvement to classroom art teaching. Schools can carry out some professional studies according to students' interests and school conditions, such as watercolor, paper-cutting, sketching and seal cutting. Or invite some accomplished experts to guide if possible; Organize students to visit related art exhibitions; You can also show some excellent works of art to students with the help of multimedia such as video, network and projection. You can give lectures on related topics, such as what middle school students should look like, and how to treat western modern art? Cultivate students' correct and healthy aesthetics; Participate in various practical activities inside and outside the school, such as posting wall newspapers and holding galleries regularly, so that students can see their artistic creativity and improve their interest in learning. Fourth, overcome two tendencies and strive to improve classroom efficiency. Because of the actual proportion and position of art class in middle school education, we should pay attention to overcoming two tendencies in the teaching process. On the one hand, we can't take a laissez-faire attitude just because it has few class hours, which has little direct impact on the enrollment rate, or can't get the attention of some school leaders; On the other hand, just because we emphasize the important role of art class, we should not put it in an inappropriate position, occupy other class hours or excessively occupy extracurricular time. Art class should not be regarded as a discipline for cultivating specialized talents, and students should be trained too much in art skills or put forward too high requirements.