How to Cultivate Children's Creativity in Art Education

A few years ago, I won the first selection of the Fangqiao Literature and Art Award Photography Group, as well as several awards in photography competitions, and also held a photography exhibition. I used to take two negative cameras and three lenses with me, 135 and 120. As soon as I get up, the camera will follow me.

Artistic creation is self-inspiration and has profound educational significance.

Because the purpose of art is always to discover new things and beauty in the old world.

In this world, many people live at two o'clock and one line. Whether at home, in a company or at school, artistic creation like photography is more like finding new fun and new ways of breathing in endless life.

Cultivating children's creativity is a subject that cannot be ignored when we discuss children's psychology, especially educational psychology. I want to talk about this topic today.

Elliot W. Eisner, an American contemporary aesthetic educator, wrote in his book The Creation of Art and Mind: The Role of Art in Transforming Harmony:

Eisner expounded the importance of environment to art education.

Popularizing photography art, or educating photography aesthetics, and building an environment where you can easily get in touch with photography, know photography, learn photography, and even learn photography aesthetics, can be taught imperceptibly.

Generally speaking, aesthetic education is usually carried out with the assistance of others (such as schools) in addition to individual cognitive activities.

What has far-reaching influence is the society in which we live and the culture behind it.

Our senses have become a way to pursue self-development, but they do not operate independently, but need to be rooted in the culture in which we live as development materials, including language, art, science and values.

With the help of culture, we learned to play with ourselves.

People can exert more complex creativity on the basis of knowledge.

Art is the creation that people refine their own experiences and feelings and expand their imagination. Thought produces images full of possibilities, and it also has an extremely important cognitive function of creating possible worlds.

Creativity is also a form of cognition.

Understand through experience, take experience as creative material, and then change the environment and form culture.

Culture depends on communication, because the mode of communication provides opportunities for cultural growth. On the one hand, we respond to other people's contributions, on the other hand, we also provide materials for them to respond.

Artistic cognitive ability helps people learn how to care about the world we live in, which is a mutual relationship and constructs the whole society.

On the other hand, the face of society also reflects the personality of photographers in this society.

With the development of digital technology, more and more photographers try to use digital post-production to create their own subjective aesthetic photography.

Judging from the free spirit of art, there is nothing wrong.

However, some people who are interested in it are lucky enough to take part in the photography competition with their digital post-production works, and it is stipulated in black and white that digital post-production is not allowed.

Obviously, I forgot that with the development of digital technology, network technology is changing with each passing day. It may not be easy to be censored before, but today it will be censored by the majority of netizens.

The so-called "bitter fleabane bitter fleabane, not help and straight; White sand is in nirvana and black with it. " Xunzi, advise school. "

Relevant organizations and people forget that their actions are damaging our photographic environment, polluting photographers' sincere love for art, and destroying the bourgeois atmosphere in which the original simple photography competition was used to promote the development of photography instead of pursuing fame and fortune.

One of the main purposes of art education is to promote children's experience or cognition in developing their abilities.

The expression of creation, in this kind of activity, the refinement of emotion and more subtle differences stimulate imagination, development and the formation of skills.

"Children's ability training focuses on children's hearts", emphasizing once again that education is a process, learning how to be an architect of one's own experience, so learning how to build one's own experience.

Art must make a special contribution. To this end, they emphasize the expression of individuality and develop by exercising their imagination.

Ken, a contemporary British educator? In the book Elements: How to Find Your Passion and Change Everything, Ken Robinson criticized three major problems in the British and American education systems:

In eisner's view, creativity in a broad sense is an inseparable part of understanding and the process of knowledge growth.

When art education is marginalized in the education system that focuses on intellectual education, it is doomed that this system that aims at intellectual education will not reach the peak of knowledge.

From the perspective of multiple intelligences, it is even more contradictory to cut art education from intellectual education, because intelligence is not only a category that can be detected by traditional intelligence tests, but also a standard of one's cognitive ability and intelligence.

Art can expand imagination, expand our cognition and make children's intellectuality play a wider role. Eisner takes watercolor painting as an example. Watercolor painting has a unique artistic form.

This includes the creator's ideas, as well as technology:

A large piece of water-colored paper immersed in water, because it comes into contact with dry pigments with different proportions, including water quantity, temperature, immersion time, painting tools and other factors, ultimately has a decisive impact on the work.

Complete a watercolor painting, including how much pigment we know on the brush and how much water on the paper will lighten or fade the color.

All these depend on the inspiration of the creator and the mastery of the material and related science.

In the west, art is not regarded as having nothing to do with intellectuality-related disciplines, or even as a useless thing that affects the development of intellectuality.

Unfortunately, in the land where I grew up, art education was always sacrificed by wrong ideas in compulsory education.

When the most important creativity in artistic spirit is not encouraged, or this encouragement is only aimed at intellectual education, more specifically, at the goal of subject examination.

In the past, we thought that what we lost was just an art class that was better than nothing. In fact, as eisner said, most people underestimate what art education can bring to children, far exceeding artistic memory.

It also includes helping children to increase their imagination, shape their personality, integrate learning with the environment, communicate with other communities without obstacles, and so on. Let children and the world learn to embrace each other and help each other in life.