Exploration Of Creative Thinking In The Teaching Of Art

Jiang Zemin once said:"Innovation is the soul of a nation's progress and the inexhaustible motive force for national prosperity." Creativity is one of the most important element of creative thinking. China is changing examination-oriented education into quality education, art education is an important part of quality education, the focus of art education is to train student's of creative ability and creative thinking. We should based on quality education when we cultivate student's creative thinking in art teaching. We should focus on improving their aesthetic and judgment art ability, through the beauty of nature, social beauty and artistic beauty to inspire student. In order to train student's overall quality, traditional art education should be integrated into comprehensive art education. That is why we should train children's creative thinking in new curriculum reform. This study discusses the three aspect of training of creative thinking in art teaching, they are as follows:First, creative thinking comes from life and nature, we should train creative Thinking from life. Second, we should train children's aesthetic capacity and creative thinking through stimulating their interest, hobby and sense of innovation. Third, we can stimulate children's creative thinking in school teaching from these aspects:cultivating their intuitive thinking, image thinking, divergent thinking and inspiration. According to the theory of developmental psychology, children of different ages have different performance in art class, so we should respect the law of physical and mental development during the training process of creative thinking. Last, this paper reveals the importance of creative thinking during art teaching as well.