Problems in traditional children's art education

Traditional children's art education emphasizes the transmission of rational knowledge and skills, in which teachers instill knowledge in children and children can only passively accept a set of dead methods of expression, thus counteracting and suppressing the cognitive role of intuition, and also wiping out children's inspiration and talent. Many of the very different pictures drawn by children in different states show the different roles that different education plays in the development of children's understanding, proving that different methods of education can both develop human ability and hinder the development of human talent.

(a) The traditional art teaching, focusing on copying, ignoring the children's individuality is often used to simplify the graphics as the image of the mode of expression, through copying the instillation of the children, the learning of the sketch is called to let the children master the painting of the "words".

Children in the growth, imitation is their nature, if the adult preconceived ideas to teach them to draw some patterned things, will make the children to form stereotypes, the children learned these image formula, applied in their own paintings, there is a mold of all the children to draw the sun, geese, flowers, trees. They do not know how to discover by their own observation the various morphological characteristics of . Birds look different, copying the teaching of the children indifferent to the beauty of life, the vivid and interesting objects will not paint and dare not paint, each child's painting has no personality, no spiritual feeling.

(2) The traditional art education ignores the course of children's growth, and the content of the teaching materials is detached from the actual children.

Such as the content of the textbook from simple to complex, from the adult's point of view of the development of children's modeling ability, that: the simpler the shape of the object, the easier it is for children to grasp and accept, so the textbook from the simple shape to the complex shape of the arrangement to reflect the process of understanding from shallow to deep, so the textbook provides for the beginning of the plane shape: round, square, triangular, combination of shapes ... ...It seems that this arrangement is in line with the principle of gradual progression from shallow to deep. In fact, children are born to understand the world and do not develop their understanding by the complexity of shapes; they like to draw people and things they are familiar with and interested in, and as soon as they start to take a brush to draw, they will draw people first. Children's growing minds often generate the impulse to master the world, to understand it, and to prove that the world is magical. Children's drawings often show the creativity of all stages of human development, and they are able to freely express the ever-changing things in the world in their own unique way. Practice has proved that children's drawing subjects do not exist complexity, I learned through teaching practice, rich in complex shape but easy to be accepted by children, such as, secondary school textbooks in the travel shoes, by themselves at first glance, the ancient buildings, are children sketching a good subject matter, I also experimented with children of all ages to draw rattan chairs, drawing groups of vegetables, drawing groups of people, different ages, are created to express the ability of the drawing of each stage of the excellent examples, successfully achieved the goal of children's drawing. The children were able to draw the chairs, vegetables and figures in groups, and at different ages, they were able to create excellent examples that showed their ability to draw at different stages.

(3) The traditional assessment standards of art education suppress the development of children's creativity. In the traditional art education, the only criteria for evaluating assignments is whether they look like something or not, ignoring the diversity of expression in art.

Art education is different from education in other disciplines, and there is no uniform answer to art creation. Art modeling is the product of human spirit, is the visual language of human expression of emotion. Each person's life feels different, the way of expression is bound to be different. Traditional art teaching emphasizes that students copy the old teacher's painting, the more like the better, the better, the requirement of teaching uniformity, which brings the consequences of student work stagnation, rigidity and uniformity.

People's sense of aesthetics due to aesthetic point of view, aesthetic standards and aesthetic ability to different aesthetic objects produce aesthetic feeling there is a difference, the beauty of the different sides and angles presented in front of the person, but also cause a different sense of aesthetics. Children are affected by different environments, different temperaments and different upbringings, and there are also differences in aesthetic interests and abilities, and the differences in the sense of beauty are universal and absolute. Only by emphasizing the expression of individuality and advocating unique ideas in art creation activities can children be motivated to produce creativity.

Traditional art teaching also always emphasizes the accuracy of the shape, the requirement to draw the right proportion at the beginning, the actual children can not do. In the aesthetic education seems to be only painted like real objects, is beautiful, in fact, this is a misunderstanding, painted like is not the same as the beauty of the painting. Traditional art teaching puts technology in the first place, do not pay attention to let the students through observation, performance colorful, vivid and typical image, performance of their own life knowledge and feelings, so to a certain extent suppressed the children's initiative.

Through years of children's art teaching experiments, we should realize that children's art education and professional art education is both different and related. Children's art education mainly relies on the development of intuitive perception, through observation, experience, memory, association, creation and a series of activities, mobilizing all the human senses, so that the children themselves to discover the beauty, feel the beauty, express the beauty, create beauty. Children's art is a comprehensive education, the need to use a variety of media to stimulate children, so that they have the desire to create and impulse, in line with the natural development of children, the knowledge implicitly imparted to them, to help them perfect the creation of the feelings to be expressed.