What is the function and significance of art?

The role and significance of art are as follows:

First, art can develop pupils' intelligence and creativity.

Art activities belong to a kind of visual art activities. Before painting or doing manual work, primary school students first observe what they are depicting from the aspects of shape, structure, color and spatial position through vision, and then form a rough outline in their minds, which is drawn by hand through memory and imagination.

80% of the information in the human brain is source vision, and observation is the main way for children to know the world. Their cognitive level depends on their observation ability, so observation plays an important role in art education in primary schools.

Most primary school students' paintings are too subjective, and what they draw is imaginative and unrealistic. They just want to express their true feelings, draw various shapes on cardboard, on the ground or on the wall at will, and draw people, plants and houses higher than one. Although the clouds in the sky are the same color as the grass on the ground, they need to think and create before painting, which is to develop their intelligence and creativity.

Second, can art train primary school students' practical ability?

Pupils observe with their eyes, think with their brains, and then operate with their hands before drawing or doing manual work. In the art classroom education in primary schools, teachers often train some basic painting movements to meet the standards, such as the strength of the pen, the stability of the hand when painting, the directionality of coloring, the speed of origami and so on. These movements play an important role in the muscle development of primary school students and the coordinated development of fingers, arms and wrists.

Third, art is conducive to the formation of good behavior habits of primary school students.

A person's good behavior habits are cultivated from childhood, and his preferences, communication, personality and temperament are all formed through practical activities under certain conditions. Art education activities help children form good behavior habits.

Fourth, art can improve the ability of primary school students to learn other subjects.

As far as the structure of the brain is concerned, the functions of the left and right brains are very different. The left brain focuses on the control center of intellectual activities such as memory, language expression, writing and calculation, while the right brain is the center of neuropsychological control such as vision, music, dance and body coordination.

If you draw, sing and remember at the same time, you can develop your right brain and your left brain at the same time, which will promote the all-round development of your child's brain. For example, common sense and language education provide art education with the ability to know and understand things, and the content of art courses is to consolidate what other subjects have learned and deepen their memories.

Fifth, cultivate children's ability to think and work independently.

In the process of painting, children need to prepare their own tools and materials for painting, and a series of problems such as conception, composition, modeling, color and painting in the process of painting need to be completed by children themselves. Therefore, in a sense, in children's childhood, in the training of independent thinking and work, no activity can be compared with learning art.