Text/Figure _ Qin Bo

Qin Luo is a beautiful girl. I remember the first time I taught her, I asked her to draw a sun with some children. The children fiddled with their brushes, while Qin Luo sat watching them draw. When the children finished painting their sun, Qin Luo took these childish pictures in his hand and looked at them carefully. After a long time, she wrote on the paper: "I was played by several children!" " "

I don't understand why she wrote such a sentence, but I finally understand.

I said to Qin Luo, "Are you really being played?"

She looked down for a long time and said to me, "I was not fooled by the children, but cheated by the education system!" " "

In fact, it's not cheating, just like I said: once our thoughts are infused with one kind of spiritual blood, it's hard to melt into another.

But it is worth pondering, is the blood injected into our minds for the first time necessarily nutritious?

I have been thinking about this problem since the end of the summer vacation.

Speaking of which, there are still stories to tell. I remember chatting with President Liao one day. He told me that a college student was coming back from England recently and asked me if I could teach her how to draw a few days' line. After I got some information, I told the president that I wanted to meet her first and sit down with each other before making a decision.

A few days later, I met the college student who came back from England. Her name is Qin Luo. We sat together and chatted casually, because she was a girl who had seen the world, so she was not as restrained as other students who studied painting with me. We don't treat each other as teachers or students, just like friends, chatting far and wide. From the conversation with her, I know that she studied landscape design in England, and this time she came back to learn line drawing techniques from me. Maybe it's because we talked harmoniously, and Qin Luo has a strong desire to learn and is more self-motivated. I promised her to go to school to learn painting from others tomorrow.

That day, I didn't tell her how to draw lines directly, but talked to her about being a man. I asked her how she was studying in England and why she came back to learn line drawing. Her answer is very direct, saying that it is to lay the foundation for her to learn landscape design. Only by practicing the basic skills of line drawing can it be easier to start landscape design. I heard some information from her words-the purpose and motivation of her learning line drawing is to lay the foundation for her major. In fact, this is understandable. Everyone will have their own purpose in learning, or simply like painting art, or take this small bridge to help themselves reach the other side for other things. But I think, for these "older children", I must make them understand a truth, that is, no matter what they do, they can't be too utilitarian. Art, in particular, must have a feeling of liking, so that they can exert their amazing artistic creativity unconsciously. Otherwise, no matter how good it is, it is just imitation, which can only be said to be beautiful, but after careful observation, it is found that there is no vitality at all.

So I put forward my views on learning painting to Qin Luo, probably telling her that although learning is to lay the foundation for future majors, we should never forget the real requirements of art for creators. She listened carefully and sometimes affirmed my proposal. Although Qin Luo is a college student, I still want her to keep a diary every day, just like asking my children to write down her feelings about painting that day or other things that touched her. This will be of great benefit to learners. I can constantly understand their feelings in a certain period of time and adjust my teaching methods in time.

The next day, Qin Luo came with two people. One is her cousin, a senior one student, and the other is her relative, who seems to be studying art at a university in the north. Qin Luo told me that when she went back, she told them about our conversation yesterday, so they also wanted to learn painting from me. Qin Luo asked me if I could accept them and teach them together. I smiled and agreed. In class, I told them about the important role of childlike innocence in learning art. I said that the current education system has bound our thinking, and we can't freely exert our imagination and fantasy, so the works we created can only be praised in the evaluation criteria of "likeness" and "unlike", but after careful observation, I always feel that there seems to be nothing valuable except the painted image. Although the children's paintings look naive, we can see one thing from their paintings, that is, free, laissez-faire and unconstrained thinking. When I tell them, I can feel that it will be very difficult to convince them just through my story. I decided to choose three children from my teaching to study with them. The purpose of my doing this is to let them really realize the greatness of childlike innocence from the process of getting along with children.

Therefore, I brought three children, Liu and so on, to study with them. After telling them some basic methods of drawing lines, I put forward the first topic I taught my students-"Draw a sun together".

I gave them an hour and a half to draw the sun. In this process, I saw Qin Luo and his three "older children" listening to my topic, all staring at blank paper and playing with their pens, unable to start painting, while Gao Yue and his three children listened to my topic with their heads buried and carefully painted. ...

When they finished painting, I appreciated and commented on their paintings. Of course, I didn't directly say that Qin Luo's paintings were not as energetic and creative as the children's, but I showed them the children's paintings and wrote down their feelings after reading them. I want to take them to find their childhood and find their childlike innocence in this way. They watched carefully, and I was waiting for their comments on themselves after reading the painting.

The first thing I saw was what Qin Luo wrote. She wrote "Shocked?" In English. Yes? Childhood! "Then wrote at the bottom of the sentence," I was played by several children! """hit hard" "I am old ..." "Innocent? ! Far away ... "And so on. I look at these heartfelt words from college students, and I am both happy and sad. Fortunately, they can see the greatness of artistic childlike innocence from their children's paintings, but sadly, they think they have been fooled by their children. Of course, I still can't fully understand what Qin Luo said, but I think the thinking brought by this sentence can already reflect its value.

Since they all feel that they have been baptized by innocence, it is necessary for me to come up with my teaching philosophy of "learning from children" to discuss with them. I asked them what they thought of this view. This 19-year-old boy named Gan Jingyang told me his real experience in this painting of the sun. He said: "It should be said that before writing, there were still many ideas in my mind, but when writing, I chose the most conservative one. As for the reason, I don't necessarily make it clear myself. I may have some concerns, or I am afraid that my painting is too naive. In short, some strange ideas limit their own ideas, so the painted things don't have much of their own characteristics. From today's teacher's expression of "looking for childlike innocence", it can be seen that in the field of learning art, it is particularly important to find and express one's most primitive and true idea. You should not have too much concern when exploring in this field, otherwise it will only affect the expression of your own thoughts. "

After listening to his words, I feel that they all really find themselves bound by some kind of artistic creation, unable to fully expand their hands and feet, and try their best to express their ideas. Perhaps the reason is that with the growth of age, our thinking is unconsciously bound by the thinking mode of adults, and we keep thinking about everything in our minds: will this violate some potential standards? Perhaps, with this idea, many of our own ideas will still appear in our minds, but in order to avoid being criticized after expressing our ideas, we often choose to be conservative. In fact, this conservatism has doomed our work to be no longer our own. To some extent, it belongs to others-we simply imitate it according to other people's aesthetic requirements. This may be the origin of Qin Luo's idea of "being played by several children". However, I always feel that this result is not a personal matter, nor is it that we have followed the potential guidelines as usual, but that there is something wrong with our education.

Actually, I've been thinking about education for a long time. But this time, the idea put forward by Qin Luo made me think more deeply. I said to Qin Luo, "I think so. It's not necessarily right to just bring it up for discussion with you ... I don't think you are a child's play, but the result of your years of education. Think about it. Did you have so many troubles when you were a child? No, because we didn't know how to worry at that time. We painted just to express our momentary thoughts, not to draw a picture for anyone and then give us some comments. So children have more freedom, but our education prematurely stifles children's freedom of self-appreciation. In order to satisfy the teacher, the children gradually give up their own ideas and force themselves to get close to the teacher's favorite method in order to win the teacher's praise. When I grow up, I will take exams or take part in competitions. At that time, my thoughts were still in my mind, but we dared not express them easily ... "

Qin Luo obviously agrees with me. After listening to what I called "similarity" and "dissimilarity" as the criteria for judging adults, she wrote such a philosophical sentence: "But in reality, it is difficult for people to understand their own ideas. Who knows what is true? " Yes! Facing the same thing, different people have different reasons in their hearts. No one knows the truth about others, even their own ideas are elusive. Who can judge the truth in others' hearts by the truth he understands? Therefore, it is absurd to use the word "truth" as the evaluation standard of art. We adults will be played unconsciously, but it is precisely because we have long accepted that set of true and false standards that we can hardly find ourselves being played. Maybe Qin Luo didn't look at the children's paintings, and found something different from the evaluation standard of adults from their paintings. So far, she won't find herself being played. Although Qin Luo wrote that he was played by children, the thoughts brought to each other through our communication will last for a long time.

? I firmly believe that art can't be used for fun. But after all, some people still play, perhaps the hidden rules of growth, perhaps the disadvantages of education, but undoubtedly these make us think deeply. ...