Through the latest news of art education and experts' views on its problems, this paper draws the conclusion that art appreciation education plays an important role in many aspects for non-art college students. Including aesthetic education, its important role in students' physical and mental health and moral education, and its close relationship with culture. Correctly understand experts' suggestions and fully understand the importance of art education and artistic creation.
Key words: art education, moral education, aesthetics, artistic creation, culture.
(1) Current Affairs News Xinhua News Agency, Hangzhou, 65438+1October 23rd (Zhang) In the future, college students in Zhejiang Province must take an art course while they are at school, and they must pass the exam and get 2 credits before they can graduate. This is the news that the reporter learned from the Provincial Department of Education.
A few days ago, the Propaganda Department of Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Department of Education and the Provincial Department of Finance issued the Opinions on Further Strengthening Art Education in Colleges and Universities. The purpose of this regulation is to comprehensively improve the cultural quality of college students through various forms of art education, so as to more consciously and actively promote the great development and prosperity of socialist culture.
In recent years, relevant departments in Zhejiang Province have been striving to comprehensively improve the artistic quality of college students. In April, 2006, our province launched an elegant art activity on campus with the theme of "approaching masters, listening to classics, cultivating sentiment and improving literacy". The elegant art sent to the campus expanded from symphony, Peking Opera and Yue Opera at the beginning to drama and Shao Opera last year, which exposed nearly 460,000 students to traditional art.
It is understood that in the future, Zhejiang Province will continue to focus on outstanding classic plays, send elegant arts such as symphony, Beijing opera, Kunqu opera, Yue opera, Shao opera and Wu opera to university campuses, hold academic lectures for art experts among college students, and popularize elegant art knowledge.
According to reports, art elective courses in colleges and universities stipulated by relevant departments in Zhejiang Province are divided into two categories: limited and arbitrary. Limited elective courses include art introduction, music appreciation, art appreciation, film appreciation, drama appreciation, dance appreciation, calligraphy appreciation and opera appreciation. Every student must take at least 65,438+0 courses and pass the exam during his study at school. Zhejiang province requires colleges and universities to strive to create conditions for offering art elective courses, which are counted as credits.
(2) Expert opinion Famous educators talk about their feelings like this. I always quote Adams, the second president of the United States, who said that in order to let our son engage in mathematics and my grandson engage in music and dance, our generation had to fight and engage in politics on horseback. He doesn't talk much about his grandson and son, not exactly. He believes that this is a purposeful process of human beings, and our generation will ride on horseback to engage in military and political affairs. Military and politics are not the ultimate goal of mankind, but the process. In order to engage in science and philosophy, the best human beings are not completely like this. In this sense, the status of art cannot be underestimated.
(3) The important role of art education The practical significance of art teaching in modern education and the special position of art in the art world cannot be ignored. It is a close companion of human beings and is closely related to human life. Marx has always attached great importance to aesthetic education, demanding not only to master science, but also to understand art, thinking that art can not only help people understand the world, but also inspire people to transform the world and create a better life. He once said that social progress is the crystallization of human pursuit of beauty. As a visual art, art has its unique charm. Art education is an educational art, which plays an important role in quality education today and is of great significance to cultivate a new generation with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor.
1 The moral education function of art teaching is the first of the five educations, and art education and moral education are integrated. Art teaching has a strong educational effect by depicting the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, which makes people feel refreshed and excited by excellent art works. For example, when we appreciate Dong's oil painting founding ceremony, we can feel that the author shows the confidence of the people of China to stand up from now on through composition, color and form. Appreciation of Baishi's traditional Chinese painting "Teach Bees and Butterflies to Busy Flowers" praises the fighting spirit and industrious quality of ordinary workers through the busy scene of bees flying in Impatiens, which not only makes students feel the elegant scenery in the small scene of life, but also inspires students' love and admiration for labor.
2 The aesthetic function of art education The subtle influence of aesthetic education on people has always been recognized by many people. As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period in China, there were contents of moral, intellectual and physical beauty in education, which actually included moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic contents. In the late feudal society, although art was not listed as a compulsory course, "Qinqi Calligraphy and Painting" has always been one of the contents of self-improvement in the cultural literacy of the literati class. Mr. Feng Zikai, a famous art educator in China, once said: "If you can treat life with a painting-like heart, you will beautify your life and make the world peaceful." This is the greatest utility of art, the French sculptor Rodin said, life is not a lack of beauty, but a lack of eyes to find beauty. Good things in life can be seen everywhere, but not everyone can feel and appreciate them. Only through study, training and exercise can people's aesthetic consciousness be continuously improved.
The function of quality (1) helps to develop people's comprehensive thinking. Only by organically combining logical thinking with image thinking, scientific thinking with artistic thinking can we form high-quality, high-quality and healthy thinking. When I was a child, I had imagination and developed a sound mind. Only in the future can I create better works. Playing with sand, squeezing clay figurines and watching ants move are all very important for children and essential nutrients for a person's growth. Without these, childlike innocence, childlike interest and imagination, it is difficult to cultivate a sound personality. (2) It is helpful to cultivate students' healthy and rich emotional world. Education is inseparable from feelings. In the process of education, emotion must be used as a bridge and link between educators and educatees in order to produce educational effects. Education is inseparable from feelings, which can educate, impress and get good results. The characteristics of art education are not only convincing people with reason, but more importantly, moving people with emotion and controlling people with emotion.
(4) Important connection with culture. Art courses pay attention to culture, which is not the case now, because art courses have never been divorced from culture, and it is impossible to be divorced from culture. The difference is that in the past, art education and culture did not form a clear sense of relationship, nor did they shout out the slogan of culture so confidently. Now, with a conscious attitude, they are singing the March towards culture and entering the culture with a flamboyant attitude.
Let's listen to the deafening cultural March:
"Art is one of the earliest and most important carriers of human culture. It is an important cultural behavior in the whole human history to convey emotions and thoughts with art forms. ..... Through the study of art courses, students can be familiar with the media and forms of art, understand and use visual language, participate more in information exchange, enjoy the cultural resources of human society, actively participate in cultural inheritance, and make their own contributions to cultural development. "
"Art is an important part of human culture and is inextricably linked with all aspects of social life, so art learning should be regarded as a kind of cultural learning. Through art education, students can understand the differences of people's feelings, attitudes and values, the richness of human society, the characteristics of art in a wide range of cultural situations, the diversity of artistic expressions and the unique contribution of art to social life. At the same time, cultivate students' love for the excellent artistic tradition of the motherland and tolerance and respect for the world's multiculturalism. "
"China's art has a long history and brilliant achievements. Together with the art of other countries and nations, it constitutes a multicultural world art. Art is an important part of human culture and has the function of humanistic education.
Recommended books: Art Appreciation edited by Chen Luojia; Marco Lin, author of Art Appreciation: Aesthetic Analysis of Plastic Arts;
Sun Jianjun, editor-in-chief of China Folk Art Appreciation; Zhu Qi, Appreciation of Chinese and Foreign Art; Dai Editor-in-Chief: Sixteen Lectures on Chinese and Foreign Art Appreciation, Editor-in-Chief;