Why do children learn some art? In addition to the answer that is often heard-besides "getting into a good university", some people clearly know that mastering an artistic skill in their future life may be useful for their future work, study and life.
In fact, the significance of art education is not limited to these, but more importantly.
It can be analyzed from a phenomenon: from ancient times to the present, many famous figures such as thinkers, scientists, educators and military strategists are versatile, and even he is an artist; We can also say the opposite of this sentence: among many versatile artists, there are many famous thinkers, scientists, educators and even military strategists!
If a phenomenon appears more, it may prove to be regular and inevitable.
I want to say that the most important significance of art education is to let the educated learn image perception and image thinking in art study and practice, and form a perfect personality in the perception and feeling of beauty, so as to have better ability of comparison, judgment, association and creation, and stronger expression and performance. Such people will be better than others no matter what they do.
In the discussion of modern educational thoughts, we often hear the expressions of "generalist education" and "compound talent training". Does anyone realize that artistic accomplishment and artistic skills are often indispensable phenomena in a talent's multi-ability structure? In other words, no matter what kind of occupation you are engaged in, you need artistic sense and aesthetic accomplishment to do better. Leonardo da Vinci, Aristotle, Cao Xueqin ... I don't know how many people are both scientists and artists.
Jobs said that Apple "is a combination of humanity and cutting-edge technology"; Beluming said, "Architecture is a social art". In our life, the most popular daily necessities need not only practicality, but also artistic appreciation value. We should think that a successful work, the people who design and manufacture it, not only need professional skills and artistic accomplishment, but also often need perseverance and pursuit of perfection.
So I said: the fundamental significance of art education lies not in art, but in excellent personality and cultivation.