How to understand the modern significance of studying China folk art

1. Improvement of traditional cultural literacy

The goal of art education is to improve people's spiritual realm, enrich people's emotions and improve people's life feelings. It can be used as an important cooperative factor to help people complete moral education, intellectual education and physical education. The cultivation and promotion of human spirit by art education is itself the goal pursued by moral education. It can be said that aesthetic education and moral education are inseparable. Art education shoulders the heavy responsibility of aesthetic education, and aesthetics is the most basic nature of art education. Many art educators have been committed to bringing national things into contemporary art classes. For example, Mr. Dong insists on nationalization of oil painting in teaching, and guides students to extensively study various excellent artistic heritages at all times and in all countries and China folk arts, so as to broaden students' horizons and cultivate comprehensive artistic accomplishment. Introducing folk art into art education can avoid paying too much attention to skills, artistic techniques and operating procedures, while ignoring the disadvantages of aesthetic education in cultivating and enlightening students' spirit.

A new understanding of China folk art is an important foundation to promote the development of art education in China, and it is also the key to explore the balance between localization and globalization of art education and the development of art education under the background of globalization. Under the background of globalization, we should tap art education resources from traditional culture, creatively transform China folk art from the perspective of the new century, and finally form the construction of modern art culture in China with the connotation of the times without losing the traditional connotation. Lin Fengmian once said: "The culture of a nation must be based on its inherent culture. We have a culture of 5,000 years, and each era has its own good sense of the times. We should preserve our inherent good things and absorb the things outside. " ? Traditional culture is a valuable resource for art education and artistic creation. Turning it into diversified art education resources will help students to understand the connotation of China traditional culture, broaden their horizons and realize the art education goal with China characteristics.

Folk art is an art created by working people to meet their own needs and social life. Its cultural connotation and artistic form represent China's original world outlook, aesthetics, emotional temperament and the national spirit of the Chinese nation. Its unique modeling and aesthetic method. Produce a simple aesthetic feeling. The national spirit contained in it has strong vitality. The living environment and material level of the older generation of folk artists are relatively low, but they always express a positive and healthy emotion in their works of art. The truth, goodness and beauty contained in folk works of art can satisfy the spirit, help purify the soul, and invisibly bring beneficial influence to people's life and creative attitude, so that people can improve their artistic appreciation level and form a healthy and upward aesthetic interest.

2. The development of creative thinking

Folk art is a way to an end, not a goal. The real purpose is to make people more creative in the creative process through art education. Folk art can be used as a medium of aesthetic education to help students find the starting point of art. Some art colleges employ local folk artists for practical guidance, and through the lectures of artists, they can master their unique modeling skills such as modeling, color and pattern, as well as the characteristics of modeling outline form and material technology, so that students' visual senses can be actively stimulated. Enhance the sensitivity, understanding and selectivity of observing things, improve students' overall perception ability and discover beauty, thus enriching and maturing their own aesthetic feelings. In the process of learning, we seek creative inspiration, broaden our horizons, improve aesthetic taste, and thus stimulate imagination and creative potential. 1986. The Central Academy of Fine Arts has set up a folk art department to introduce the research and teaching of rural art into the highest fine arts institution in China. In that year, a folk art teaching was organized, and six peasant artists were invited to teach folk art on the platform of the Academy of Fine Arts. At the teaching summary meeting, the students all said, "I have painted things that I couldn't draw for several years and learned things that were difficult to learn in classroom teaching before." And the teachers also think: "I have found the artistic essence that I have been pursuing for many years." This is an inspiring and exciting teaching. "

3. The position of folk art in art education

For the traditional art in China, the diversified level is by no means a simple juxtaposition, but developed on the basis of folk art. Folk art is the foundation of all arts, which is not only the source of art, but also the stream of art. Therefore, "the modeling rules and creative methods of China folk art should keep pace with other artistic rules and creative methods in China art institutions. Only in this way can China's art education be truly independent of the world and have its own national characteristics ". Excellent arts are rooted in the land where they grow. Only by recognizing their roots and the indispensability of traditional culture can we inherit and carry forward national art. Now some young artists are dismissive of folk art and think that these things from the countryside are vulgar and vulgar. They blindly advocate some so-called doctrines or styles in the west, but they don't know that only by accumulating rich traditional culture can they create high-grade works of art. While learning from the excellent art forms of other countries. More importantly, we should understand the tradition of our country, fully absorb nutrition from China's traditional folk art, and integrate rich and colorful folk art elements and national cultural spirit into modern art, so as to create influential works of art. ..

In recent years, educational circles have paid more and more attention to the important role of art education in cultivating and improving students' all-round quality. Art education not only requires students to be familiar with and master the basic laws of expression and modeling, but more importantly, it guides students to be good at capturing the inner feelings of the depicted objects, and on the basis of fully understanding and grasping the objects, guides students to express them passionately and vividly, pays attention to integrating their feelings and will into their works, and accurately expresses their personality and style. These nationalized features have been deeply and vividly expressed in the folk art style. In the art world, under the current situation of the explosion and great integration of style and form, through the analysis and research of the national psychological characteristics, traditional aesthetic concepts and unique modeling methods contained in folk art, art education can get rid of the mechanical and empty disadvantages in the original art teaching system, absorb the essence of spirituality and nature in China traditional culture, and create an aesthetic education style with the spirit of the times and cultural heritage complementing each other. In the end, the personality power formed by this aesthetic education will penetrate into the subconscious level of personal spiritual life, forming the spiritual outlook of a nation and an era that spans a certain time and space.