What exactly do you learn in children's art?

I have been engaged in children's art education for more than 1 year, in addition to teaching my own 7-8 middle-aged classes, sometimes I have to give classes to young children in the lower section, sometimes I have to give classes to older children in the upper section. I have come into contact with countless parents and children. Generally speaking, parents nowadays are young, mostly from the post-80s, and their concepts of art education are still relatively advanced. It is easy to communicate with them. Even if there are a few parents who want to learn realistic techniques, most of them still agree that the cultivation of "aesthetic" ability is fundamental.

A lot of parents have talked to me privately about going to the Louvre, the British Museum, the Vatican Museum, and so on over New Year's Eve (or summer vacation), and being able to look at the paintings! And we (parents) just stand there dumbfounded. Because can not read.

Why they used to go into the museum are blind run a pass, but now they can see down? Why can't you see it? What are they looking at?

This is the so-called "outsiders see the fun, insiders see the doorway".

First of all, the names that kids hear all the time in their art studies are the number one reason they want to go into an art museum. Wanted to show his parents that he knew the person, and some of the works that were reported by name.

At the same time, they instinctively feel close, and familiarity is the main source of intimacy.

Secondly, they know how to evaluate. The different styles of painters (abstract or realistic), their use of color (color pattern), brushwork (for example, the difference between classicism and impressionism), composition (the human eye feels comfortable with the division of the picture), and even the mood inside (the author at that time in what state of the body, the psychological state), and the background of the era (what happened in that era?). That the author painted this work?) Include: the rhythm of the work. Including: the rhythm of the work, the contrast and unity of the picture, the color tone of the cold and warm, reality, sparse, dense, perspective are worth savoring.

Some of these we do not understand, we will only look at his painting like it is not, it seems that the color, composition is very comfortable, but why comfortable? What the hell is a Fauvist painting? What does installation art really express? We don't know, because we can't understand it, so we're stuck, just like when I look at a math problem.

Since then we have distanced ourselves from our children and gradually formed a gap. When they grow up, people will say they don't **** the same language as you.

Similarly, if your child learns art is still stuck on the basis of just realism, mechanically following the gourd to draw, just like, then later and the chasm between peers will also be erected. Girlfriend (or boyfriend) in the Louvre to see the painting, you baby in the square on the rocks to see the big mom dancing, see tired also dozed off.

Such children's art education, if also called "cultivate hobbies", I think, really is a big bad, too waste of money. It's a waste of money. It's a waste of a child's life.

The nature of education, there is a point of view, the development of human intelligence is divided into three stages: the romantic stage, the precise stage, and the comprehensive stage. It can be understood in this way, the children should first be diversified absorption (rough), and then precise learning (in-depth), and then unification. These three stages will alternate in cycles.

Before the age of 12, they are still in the stage of strong creative diffusion. We shouldn't box her in.

A good piece of children's artwork is childlike, creative, and conforms to the laws of aesthetics and art!

The winter vacation class has begun, my initial intention is to solve a simple need of school children to complete their school work, however, what I will teach them is how to refine the lines, how to plan the picture, and how to color harmony. Because 7 days is such a short period of time, there is only so much that can be covered. True art literacy requires long-term immersion.