What is the difference between thinking painting and traditional children's art training?

Traditional teaching models can be roughly divided into the following three categories: the first category is the "stick figure" teaching method. Some teachers take the teaching material of stick figure as a model to stereotype and model the shape, composition and color, and children's painting becomes a combination of passive copying and stereotype. Children's works are like a mold. Fixed shape, specified color, a thousand people, lifeless and creative. The second is the "repeated training" teaching method. Teachers are good at a certain kind of painting, such as ink landscape painting or ink flower-and-bird painting. The students taught have repeatedly trained this technology, so that they have reached a very skilled level. We have produced a batch of photocopiers with the same style as this teacher, or "prodigies" who can describe "Xu Beihong's horse" and "Qi Baishi's shrimp". The third is the teaching method of "professional skills training". These teachers regard the training of professional painting knowledge and skills as the purpose of children's learning painting, in order to help children get diplomas in the future. Therefore, the courses of professional colleges are forcibly moved to deal with naive and lively children prematurely, mechanically requiring them to draw still life, plaster and sketch, copy adult works, and tell some painting rules and profound theories that students don't understand, which makes students feel bored and doze off. The object of painting is only the classroom practice with solid kung fu, lacking "gas field".

Of course, we don't deny that children must master certain painting knowledge and skills when learning painting. Knowledge and skills are the main contents of art classes. However, learning pen and ink skills is not the only purpose and all content of learning painting. If teachers only teach knowledge and skills, then no matter how well they teach, they can only be regarded as photocopiers at best, and the training courses they run can only be called "skills training courses", not children's art education. Since it's called children's art education. The word "education" is the most important, which contains much richer and deeper contents. First of all, the object of education is living people, not tools to master technology. The purpose of education is to educate people rather than just instill knowledge. The purpose of education is to make children develop in an all-round way through education. In the book Creation and Mental Growth, Victor Rothfeld, an American art educator, divides children's personal growth characteristics into seven observation points: intellectual growth, emotional growth, social growth, perceptual growth, physical growth, aesthetic growth and creative growth. "This is very enlightening for those of us who are engaged in children's art education. Specifically, I think children's art education should focus on cultivating children's artistic feeling and self-feeling, which is based on the fact that children's art education is aesthetic education, and its purpose is not to train a few professional technicians and painters, but to train a group of aesthetic high-quality talents needed by the times. Let them learn to see beauty from the most ordinary things from childhood, and also know how to create beauty with ordinary things around them. Let them have a positive and happy attitude towards life, not just practical value, but also let them face life with beautiful feelings and let their body and mind develop in an all-round and healthy way.