Looking back at the development history of China's art education, we can see that China's art education embodies a stronger humanistic color than that of the west, and emphasizes the cultivation and shaping of personality by art education, and attaches more importance to linking art education with human development and the promotion of life realm. At present, with the full implementation of the Outline of the National Medium and Long-term Education Reform and Development Plan, it is necessary for us to seriously study the unique value of art education to human development and re-establish its important position in education. Nowadays, the art course of basic education is mainly music art. The author thinks that music art education is an important subject to stimulate students' aesthetic potential, enrich their aesthetic experience, improve their artistic feeling ability and realize their harmonious development. Inserting the artistic wings of music and art into students' lives can make their future lives more colorful and brighter.
First, the relationship between music and art
Music was born from the first rhythmic labor horn, and art originated from the first interesting graffiti.
Music is the grandeur of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, and art is the eternal smile of Mona Lisa. Music is Chopin's serenade to pour out intimate words, and art is Van Gogh's sunflower to show his life force.
Approaching the music, you can hear Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in C minor, which is full of resentment and tears. Bruch's Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor is sad, vigorous and lively. You can listen to the smoothness, clearness, profundity and composure of Mountain Flowing Water. The resentment of Guangling San is ups and downs and impassioned. ...
Approaching art, we can understand Giotto, the originator of western modern painting; Leonardo da vinci, a giant of wisdom; The representative of thought and strength-Michelangelo; Shakespeare among painters-Goya; Dante Miller among the country people; Manet, the father of impressionism. There are also Van Gogh who painted with passion, Gauguin who died for freedom ... We can enjoy Lie Bin's The Tracker of the Volga River, Delacroix's Death of Satan, Napalus, and Picasso's Portrait of Women in the Blue Period. ...
Music is auditory art, and art is visual art. On the surface, music and art have little to do with each other, but in fact they are integrated, absorbed and even integrated, because they have the same "genes". Excellent music works convey vision through hearing and show people bright, brilliant, quiet, solemn or elegant and profound pictures. Excellent works of art convey people's hearing through vision, making people seem to hear the tinkling of springs, the singing of birds and the shouting of characters ... So music is the harmony of notes and rhythm, and art is the synthesis of lines and colors. At the same time, music is a picture with sound, and art is a silent movement. Their mother is nature, music is its son, and art is its daughter.
Second, the relationship between music, art and students' growth
Both music and art originate from life and always accompany the historical process of human progress. Every jumping note is an expression of the author's heart; Every clever line is an eruption of the author's passion for life. These notes and lines come from the author's experience of nature, his thinking about life and his understanding of life.
Immortal music and painting are the call of the soul, the manifestation of youth, the burning of passion and the praise of life. They make our hearts tremble with magical notes and wonderful colors. In this tremor, we not only have the aesthetic voice, but also have the transcendence of life and soar towards the lofty philosophical realm. The beautiful realm formed by these notes and colors is a ladder built in people's hearts, leading people to be broad and lofty.
Being close to music and art can make our students accept the panorama of the universe and life, understand the meaning of life and become optimistic and positive people; Being close to music and art can make our students more open-minded, deeper in thinking and more sound in mind; Being close to music and art can make our students bathe in the sunshine of art, make their lives healthier, brighter and more colorful, and "live poetically" on the earth. Inserting the wings of music and art for students can make their lives fly higher and further in the ideal kingdom. Music and art constitute the left and right oars of the art ark, with "truth, goodness and beauty" as the sail, carrying our students from ignorance to civilization, from darkness to light, from vulgarity to nobility.
In fact, everyone's life history is their own works of art. If our students' lives are nourished by music and art, we have reason to believe that the movement of their lives will be louder and the picture of their lives will be more wonderful!
Third, insert artistic wings into students' lives.
How to insert artistic wings into students' lives? I think the following four points are very important.
One is people-oriented. Art education must adhere to people-oriented. Because art is not the extreme of technology, art is the organic combination of technology and humanity. When the knowledge and skills of art are integrated with the humanistic spirit and become a special expression of individuals, it is art even if it is not technically brilliant. On the other hand, if you only show artistic skills, even if you are technically familiar and sophisticated, it is not art, and this view actually comes from China tradition. Many literati painters in China may not be as good at it as painters in the Academy of Painting, but their works are widely loved. If an artist is limited to technical development, he is an artist at best. The craftsman is the "utensil" in the Confucian admonition that "a gentleman is not a utensil", and "utensil" is the "utensil". If art education only teaches students the skills of singing and painting, but ignores the humanistic spirit, or even abandons the humanistic spirit, it is equivalent to turning a living teenager with feelings, thoughts, pursuits and fantasies into a dead tool. If the art course is not people-oriented, then it can't develop students' basic artistic ability and lose its own characteristics and value, so it can't be called an art course. Without people-oriented art courses, students may have skilled skills, but they are easily tempted and restricted by utilitarianism and become "craftsmen" who have neither spiritual freedom nor any spiritual pursuit. Therefore, it is very important to establish a people-oriented concept in art education.
The second is to eliminate utilitarianism. Nowadays, many parents let their children learn art for the sake of grades and extra points for exams, which is very utilitarian. As we all know, many ancient literati with humanistic spirit dabbled in piano, chess and calligraphy, but they never admitted that they were professional painters, singers and chess players. And like to describe themselves as "amateurs". Statistics show that many works of art in China's artistic tradition have been handed down by these self-proclaimed "amateurs". The reason for this is that what they have done has gone beyond technology and integrated into the broad humanistic spirit. How many children can become "everyone" who pays attention to grade exams? Be a "craftsman" at most. Therefore, in order to obtain the enrollment rate, it is extremely wrong for some schools to mobilize students with unsatisfactory academic performance but no artistic talent and interest to take art classes and take the road of "saving the country by curve" in art examinations. Art teachers must correctly guide parents and students to treat art learning correctly. Schools should understand students' individual characteristics and potential, teach students in accordance with their aptitude, and never take art study as a stepping stone for students' further study. Another phenomenon is that art education is completely ignored, and all energy is spent on the teaching of cultural classes. Culture teaching occupies almost all the study time of students. Neither of these utilitarian practices is desirable.