Eight misunderstandings in children's art education

Eight misunderstandings in children's art education

Children's art is a plastic art activity aimed at preschool children aged 3-7, which reflects children's understanding and experience of real life around them. It is mainly divided into three categories: painting, handcraft and appreciation. The following is the "Eight Misunderstandings of Children's Art Education" that I sorted out for you, for your reference only, and you are welcome to read it.

Myth 1: Children can't draw at all. They have no talent for painting, and they don't need to study art.

Parents need to have a scientific concept of children's art education and know how to appreciate children's works. In my opinion, the goal of parents' education for 2-9-year-old children is not to train young painters, but to let children get happiness, cultivate sentiment, broaden their horizons and cultivate creative thinking in the process of artistic creation. For most children, art education activities should be an aesthetic, happy and creative game process, and for some children, it can also be an art form of psychotherapy.

Most children like to express their feelings with art. Just because they don't like painting doesn't mean they don't have artistic cells. He may prefer to knead mud and play with pottery, or cut paper and weave it by hand, or blow print it. In short, the forms of art are diversified, and "like" and "dislike" are not the criteria to judge whether a work of art is good or bad and whether a child has artistic talent.

Whether children doodle on the wall or play with mud, it is a process of trying to experience. In this process, children fully enjoy the fun of emotional venting and exploration, so parents should not restrict their freedom or tell them what to do. Children are paintings from the heart, and graffiti symbols full of childlike innocence are far more meaningful than the so-called "portrait" stick figure.

Myth 2: Children paint just for fun. Give him a piece of printing paper and you can doodle.

Every time my friends let me look at the paintings, I see a series of tender and lovely graffiti masterpieces on crumpled inferior paper or printed waste paper. I will earnestly advise my friends to buy some professional sketch paper, watercolor paper or sketch paper for my children. It is a kind of respect and love for children and a basic artistic attitude to let children fully experience and enjoy good painting materials and cherish every graffiti full of childlike interest.

Ordinary white printing paper is light and slippery, which not only greatly affects the effect of doodling, but also makes it too white for a long time, which is not conducive to children's vision development. Similarly, the paper of genuine piano music is generally yellow, which is to reduce the visual fatigue of practitioners who watch piano music for a long time. Sketch paper and watercolor paper are commonly used by beginners. Good sketch paper is slightly yellow, slightly rough surface, clear and natural lines, moderate thickness and toughness. After repeated rubbing and modification, the paper will not be damaged too much. Watercolor paper is characterized by strong water absorption and large thickness, and it is not easy to crack and pilling after repeated application, which is very suitable for children to play colorful graffiti games.

Sketch paper and watercolor paper in China are not expensive, so it is suggested to buy another painting folder and keep the single painting evenly in the folder. If you are not familiar with the brand of materials, or have other' material needs', you can search online first to get a general understanding, and then consult the sales staff when you buy on the spot. It is recommended to go to a regular art store to buy, and the quality guarantee is better.

Myth 3: Pick an art class at random.

Our parents have many misunderstandings. They can't draw, so they think all art training classes are similar. Because it is not cost-effective to choose a good training institution, no matter how much money is spent, it is better to find a small painting shop with low fees, but this view is actually incorrect, wasting time and delaying children. Regular art training institutions have professional teachers and rich curriculum systems, in which a lot of energy and financial resources are invested to design different learning programs for children of different ages. Scientific planning can help children improve in a short time, and comfortable environment can also stimulate children's creative enthusiasm, so this is definitely not a gap that can be reflected by tuition fees of several hundred dollars. Children receive a good education from an early age, which has an immeasurable impact on their future. So, parents and friends, don't lose big because of small.

Art study is a long-term process, and parents should also consider whether tuition can be easily affordable when inspecting art classes. The conditions, class hours, fees and payment methods of each art class are different, so you need to inquire in advance. No matter what kind of art class you choose, before signing up your children, you must inquire about the reputation of this training institution among parents, take your children to the audition class, get in close contact with the teachers' own artistic accomplishment and teaching methods, and then make a choice according to their needs and the purpose of signing up for the class.

Myth 4: Children only need to draw well, and adults should pick up paints, pens and rubbish.

Children under five need to be accompanied by adults during the whole painting process. Provide some help that does not disturb his creative state, such as pouring water, washing pens, squeezing paint and so on. But I often see that many children aged seven or eight often need their parents to prepare paints, paper and pens to draw. After painting, they put away their brushes and didn't even bother to put on their caps. The table is often in a mess. After the group art class, when some parents pick up their children, they hold their children in one hand and put pictures in their bags in the other. ...

I was touched by a child I came into contact with. That day, a friend brought his 5-year-old son to visit at home. My husband is chatting with his friends, while I am resting with my daughter. I thought the little boy was a little bored, so I suggested that he paint. After I told him a simple story, the little boy happily picked up a pen and paper and drew carefully for an hour.

What moved me was not only the vividness of the painting, but the little boy took the initiative to cover the caps of each watercolor pen one by one after painting, put them neatly in the pencil box, got under the small table, picked up the fallen paper, wiped his hands and threw it into the trash can. Finally, he said to me, "Aunt, I finished painting. Thank you for teaching me to paint!" " A 5-year-old child from an ordinary working family is so cultured in speech and behavior that I am impressed by this little boy and his family.

Respecting children's creative freedom in artistic activities does not mean letting themselves go. Aesthetic edification is not only the process of painting a picture and squeezing a handful of mud, but also the process of teaching children to develop good creative habits from picking up a pen and a piece of paper, and cultivating and shaping good character through small details of art activities. Only those who know how to live, form good habits and have excellent personality can create truly beautiful works.

Myth 5: Children draw, doodle and play with mud at home, making the home dirty and messy. Don't let him play.

Frankly speaking, I am not good enough in the field of art industry. I understand why. On the two walls of the living room, two large spaces were specially opened for the daughter to doodle freely. But because it is too tiring for a person to take care of the children to do housework, I put away the gouache paint to prevent Ipoh from playing gouache graffiti. Later, in my friend's art studio, I saw Yiyi doodling at will, playing color games and laughing happily. I immediately decided that I should be diligent in cleaning up and give my children the freedom to create.

2 ~ 3-year-old babies doodle and play with their parents, which can not only enhance the parent-child relationship, but also improve the coordination ability of hands, eyes and brain, so that the muscles of small hands can be exercised; Graffiti is also a visual symbol for children to express their emotions.

Children sometimes explore painting on the wall because they are curious about the color of brush lines, sometimes draw an impression of their daily favorite food or pleasure after happy games, sometimes vent their anxiety about the new environment they are in contact with, strangers or watching their parents quarrel, and sometimes show chagrin and self-confidence because they can't draw the picture they want to express with brush strokes.

Parents may not understand the meaning of children's messy lines or wall-painting strokes, but by observing and appreciating the paintings and talking patiently with their children, they can understand the content of their graffiti. It is very beneficial to know the psychological needs of children's inner world in time and channel their anxiety in time to promote their physical and mental health and cultivate good emotional intelligence.

Myth 6: Children are young, so they learn stick figures.

What is a stick figure? The stick figure is a kind of painting that extracts the most typical and prominent main features of the objective image through activities such as eye recognition, brain memory and handwriting, and shows generality, identifiability and schematic in a flat, stylized form and concise brushwork.

Many parents and teachers often guide their children to learn stick figure when they first learn painting. As one parent said, "Simple stick figures are easy for children to master". The traditional educational concept holds that children's understanding develops from simple to complex, so painting practice must transition from simple to complex in order to improve children's modeling ability step by step.

However, from the perspective of children's psychology, children are interested in complexity and curvature in early childhood, and they prefer to see patterns composed of many small rectangles, not just a few big squares.

Myth 7: Color painting is simple, and children will not doodle in the end.

As the name implies, color-fill painting is to paint different colors in the outlined painting. Especially in major shopping malls, amusement parks, and even picture books, bookstores, and stationery stores, children of three or four years old are often seen, wearing aprons and holding colorful pigments, drawing Winnie the Pooh, Snow White, castles, and pleasant goat according to the template.

When the child shows the filled-in picture to the parents. "Baby, it's beautiful and neat." Parents are happy and children are happy. Children feel that their parents buy more for themselves, which means that they love themselves, so they are very happy and like colored paintings. Color-fill painting is not a painting created by children themselves, but a painting for adults. In fact, this practice sometimes stifles a child's imagination, but it is not conducive to his growth.

Myth 8: If the child is too young to draw, I will show him how to draw.

What is a demonstration? That is to say, in art teaching, parents and teachers often take adult demonstration and children's imitation learning as the main methods, that is, the three-stage method: demonstration painting, demonstration explanation and children's copying.

(For example, today's theme is Changjin Deer, so parents or teachers will draw a picture of Changjin Deer on the whiteboard or blackboard first, and then students will draw a picture again. Teaching paradigm, as the emotional terminal of teaching, teaches children, taking whether children's works are like template painting as the evaluation standard, and puts children in the realism of "painting gourds according to patterns".

The characteristic of this kind of classroom is to set the practice of using skills and tools as the main learning goal and the picture effect as the pursuit of results. This kind of teaching pays less attention to the children themselves and more attention to the visual effects of the works themselves.

How should our parents and teachers judge? What are the criteria for consideration? It is a pity that children's artistic enlightenment education sacrifices their body and mind because of the development of artistic ability.

Any kind of enlightenment education should not contradict and conflict with children's own physical and mental development. This is the consensus of all education. The only criterion of scientific education method is whether to respect the law of children's own development.

Therefore, when educating children to draw, we must guard against these misunderstandings! Learning art helps to improve children's comprehensive quality, so children must find ways to satisfy their interests. Give him the best lessons, give him the best materials to make him feel, and draw with him, not afraid of getting dirty!

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