Open-ended Art And Eduction

This thesis is trying to construct theoretical research and practical applications of infusing contemporary art to school's art education by means of analyzing the concept and aesthetic features of contemporary art. With regard to art, it aims at helping the students recognize the complicated current situation of art, distinguishing its beautiful and ugly aspects, judging its quality. With regard to education, it can cultivate students'ability of critical thinking, witch can make students learn to think deeply, learn to distinguish, and then mould students'independent personality. This thesis's proposition is:In the background of updating and evolving art, there is a phenomenon that school's art education lags behind the avant-garde art to some extent. But infusing contemporary art to school's art education has it's unique theoretical principle and educational value.There fore, school's art education should hold an view of "flowing foundation", realizing that the relationship between the contemporary art and students'life world and it's educational value of cultivating the ablity of critical thinking. When throughing curriculum resources-screening, infusing contemporary art to school's art education can let the students know the the latest form of art development, appreciating the complicated current art situation(distinguishing art's beauty and ugliness, judgeing art's value).then students can mould there independent personality.The thesis is made up of five chapters:In the first chapter:According to the new development of east and west art and the art state, the author identifed the problem of the contrast between the open-ended art and the conservative school's art education. On this basis, the author presents the research subject:constructing the relationship between school's art education and contemporary art, infusing the appropriate things of contemporary art to the teaching content's selective category.In the second chapter:Throughing the illumination and decipherment of the postmodernism theories, the author analyzing the postmodern art (contemporary art)'s principles of aesthetics, artistic ideological trends and the enlightenment to school's art education. At the same time, the researcher is doing rational thought to the course content, teaching methods of school's art education. According to the postmodern curriculum, this dissertation illustrated teaching idea of infusing contemporary art to the school's art education.In the third chapter:In the case of this research, the transformation of the educational concept is the question of the first. In this part, the research systematically expounded the value orientation and educational philosophy reflection of infusing contemporary art to the school's art education.among this, the author put emphasis on the theory of "the flowing foundation" "returning to the life world" "curtivating the critical thinking"in art education and their application.In the fourth chapter:To contemporary art, the good and the bad are intermingled. If the teachers want to show these contents, they must sift through them very carefully to separate the wheat from the chaff. In this chapter, the reacher present three important principles of selection: (1)the principle of intuition to visual modeling;(2) the principle of acceptability to students' cognitive capacity;(3) the principle of guidance quality to positive-going values.In the last chapter:In order to providing the basic mode of teaching behavior, the author analyzed the concrete thing in the field of teaching practice, such as the key link of the class, instructional strategies, teaching mode,etc. throughing the teaching experiment,the author also want to validate the Assumptions that through the study of different contemporary artistic curriculum resources, the students can thus appreciate the contemporary art, forming the critical thinking and cultivate the ability to express their thoughts or ideals by using the proper artistic language.