The Vacuousness Born

With the development of the network society, the Internet plays a more important role in the practice of art education, which also brings forth some hard-handled problems. The study on the relation between the Internet and art education can solve some problems in the practice of art education and promote a healthy art education. The thesis is divided into six parts. Chapter One explains where the study originates, analyzes the current situation in the field and sums up the roadmap for the study. Chapter Two elaborates on the multi-connotations of the concept of the Internet, network cultural ideology and the characteristics of the Internet as a media. The main body of the thesis revolves around the four basic characteristics of network media, i.e. comprehensiveness, interactiveness, virtuality and complexity. It explores some basic issues concerning the relation between web media and art education from Chapter Three to Chapter Six. Chapter Three is about the art value of hypertext, multi-media and virtual reality. The hypertext reflects the comprehensiveness of text, while the multi-media realizes the comprehensiveness of the media and virtual reality causes the comprehensiveness of feelings. The Internet not only lays a media foundation for the birth of the network art, but also sets up a platform for a comprehensive art education. Chapter Four centres around the application of web media in teaching and procedural design in art education. The interactive web media changes the whole structure of art teaching, enriching its connotation and helping transfer art teaching from the teachers' unilateral duck-feeding to interactive construction between teachers and students. Chapter Five mainly discusses the aesthetic psychological mechanism in the aesthetic activities of virtual network. It also analyzes the basic characteristics of the network aesthetic experience, network aesthetic composition and network aesthetic communication. Chapter Six focuses on the network aestheticization and network spoof, in the hope of people having a clear mind of the complexity of the network aesthetic culture, setting a critical stand and preventing effectively the side effects of the network aesthetic culture on art education. In Conclusion, the author argues the Internet should be included and excluded from art education, which helps art education combine the art experience of the virtual and actual world through the fusion of virtuality and reality and their mutual promotion.