Line, or line, is a visual morphological element in real life or artistic works. Because they often coexist with visual factors such as shape, body, color and light, lines in modeling concepts are often associated with visual generalization and abstraction. However, the formation of these abilities must be trained through artistic appreciation and artistic creation practice. How to deepen the understanding of the concept of "line" and apply it artistically in practice is an important link in art teaching in middle schools.
1. Appreciate Chinese and foreign works of art with line modeling, and improve students' aesthetic ability of the art form of "line".
Line is the most basic modeling method of art, whether it is plane or three-dimensional works, it is the basic factor that constitutes the image of visual art; Whether realistic or decorative; Whether abstract or concrete ... In the long process of artistic development, "line", as an artistic language for artists to create images and express their thoughts and feelings, has always been in a very important position, and has increasingly shown rich expressive force and artistic beauty. The Landscape Painting by Wu Guanzhong, a famous Chinese painting master, is not much colored, but mainly outlined by brush lines, but the lines are smooth and free, and the light and heavy changes are arbitrary, with strong lyrical meaning and distinct sense of the times. The Notes on the Red Sofa (oil painting) by the late French fauvism master Vantis vividly and concisely depicts the image of a young girl with concise generalization, erotic and decorative lines.
Second, emphasize the role of the midline in China traditional art.
The lines of Chinese painting can be traced back to the colorful paintings in Yangshao era, the silk paintings in the late Zhou Dynasty, the lacquer paintings on Chu containers and the murals in Han and Tang Dynasties. Painted pottery patterns of Yangshao culture. This is China's earliest line work. Its lines are bright, vivid and straight, depicting spirals, chords, human faces, insects, fish, birds and animals, etc., which embodies the simple and innocent beauty of primitive art. Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, with the prosperity of figure painting, line drawing art has reached a climax. Wu Daozi was a master of line drawing in Tang Dynasty. People call Wu's poems "the Party Style in Wu Dynasty". The figures he painted are vivid and unusual with fluttering sleeves, which embodies a high sense of movement and rhythm and gives full play to the effect of line drawing art. Liang Jie, a painter in the Southern Song Dynasty, painted a figure painting with freehand lines, in which Huineng, the sixth ancestor of Zen Buddhism, was the ancestor of the figure. The painter vividly described an old man at work with a few strokes. After long-term artistic practice, China painters use lines in different ways (from literati painting to institutional painting to folk painting).
Third, the similarities and differences between eastern and western painting lines.
Due to the influence of different cultural backgrounds, the lines in eastern and western paintings are different in formal beauty: the lines in eastern paintings pay attention to expressing emotions and are full of rhythm and decorative beauty; Lines in western painting have strong rational characteristics, and they cannot be opposed. It should be pointed out that line modeling is interlinked in eastern and western works of art, and it also has rich expressive force and colorful artistic beauty. It is only because of the differences in appreciation habits and traditional concepts of painting modeling that different expression techniques and national styles have been formed. From the analysis of specific works, the performance characteristics of lines in eastern and western paintings are often intertwined, such as the works of Matisse in France at the beginning of the twentieth century. His works not only have the fine tradition of western painting, but also absorb the characteristics of oriental art, giving people new aesthetic enjoyment. In China, with the continuous integration of Chinese and Western cultures, China's traditional fine arts have made new development and changes, especially in the past decade, which is more prominent. For example, Wu Shu's skillful use of mechanical instruments is innovative, and the sense of rhythm and rhythm of lines is very strong and distinct. We should seriously study and inherit the fine traditions of Chinese and foreign works of art. On the basis of learning Chinese painting well, we also need to know about western art. "Making the west serve China" makes our national painting art contemporary and cosmopolitan.
The role of art class in aesthetic education
Aesthetic education generally achieves its educational purpose through artistic aesthetics. The unique condition of aesthetic education for students in art class is intuition, including natural beauty intuition, social beauty intuition and artistic beauty intuition. The course of appreciation, painting and craft stipulated in the art syllabus directly reflects this intuition.
The teaching of art appreciation course mainly touches people's heartstrings with perfect images and superb artistic skills, which makes people full of energy and resonate with them, thus producing strong educational effects. For example, when we appreciate Dong's oil painting founding ceremony, we can feel that the author shows the confidence and boldness of the Chinese nation through conception, composition and color. Appreciate the old man Baishi's traditional Chinese painting "Teach bees and butterflies to be busy picking flowers", and praise the industrious spirit through the busy scene of bees flying around the gorgeous impatiens to collect honey. The author expresses elegant aesthetic taste from ordinary life scenes, and students arouse their admiration for ordinary workers through their taste and appreciation of works.
In addition to learning lines, shapes, space, light and shade, color, composition and other arts and languages, art painting teaching also needs to learn artistic expression techniques such as copying, sketching and creation. For example, in the class of still life sketch, whether a bottle of flowers bathed in sunshine is placed in front of the window or a fat fruit is piled on the table at will; Whether it is a set of sparkling glassware or fresh vegetables just bought back, colorful business and interesting forms can make students feel the infection of love and enjoy the beauty.
Portrait class not only makes students understand the "eight diagrams" of head shape and the "three stops and five eyes" of five senses, but also makes students understand the meaning of "both form and spirit". The beauty of portrait painting is not the concept of "heavy eyebrows and big eyes" or "small cherry mouth", but the key is to create a touching image with individual characteristics in life. For example, Zhou Sicong's portrait "The Old Miner" vividly depicts the image of an old miner living in the old society. On the face of the old miner, we can see the hard work and life of the coal miner, but he is so kind and simple. Works of art are not judged by similarity, beauty and beauty. Teachers should closely combine the teaching content, guide students to understand the artistic beauty of portrait painting through their feelings, imagination and thinking about the image, be edified in thought and be educated in the feeling of beauty.
Technology class is an artistic practice activity with design consciousness. In the art class, the students learned the knowledge of color and the law of modeling. Mastering the aesthetic knowledge of these shapes and colors is helpful to cultivate students' healthy aesthetic view, correctly guide students to blindly pursue fashion and strange hairstyles, and also help to improve students' ideological and moral character.
In addition, art plays a prominent role in developing students' intelligence. According to scientific research, the left hemisphere of human brain is in charge of abstract thinking and the right hemisphere is in charge of image thinking. Many complex mental activities are completed by the two hemispheres of the brain. Students generally use left-brain thinking in cultural learning, and art class is conducive to developing students' thinking ability in images. The task of art class is to cultivate students' thinking ability in images such as observation, memory, imagination and creation, especially observation ability. In painting class, teachers always emphasize students' observation, observation and re-observation, from outside to inside, from near to far, from whole to part and then to whole. Only correct observation can lead to correct perception, positive thinking in images, concretization of abstract things, visualization of conceptual things and further development of logical thinking. This will also help to develop students' multi-faceted thinking ability and give full play to the potential of the human brain.
Aesthetic education is clearly included in the educational syllabus, which marks the great development of socialist educational thought and the further improvement of socialist educational system in China. The purpose of art class is not to cultivate all students into artistic creators, but it plays a positive role in improving students' aesthetic and cultural quality, developing creative thinking and cultivating sentiment.