Why do children study art?

Art is creation. There is no logic. There are many kinds of training courses, but there are few teaching methods that combine the two. In fact, when children study and explore in nature, the mixture of science and art is far better than the single science or art teaching. Children who "survive in the wilderness" only between books

As an astronaut, dancer, doctor and art collector, May Jemison appealed that if we want to face the rapidly changing future, we should carry out education combining science and art.

Click here to watch the video of Mae Jemison's speech at TED with Chinese subtitles.

But how to integrate science and art in natural exploration? Before talking about how to do it, let's talk about two misunderstandings in parents' minds: 1 Art is too confusing for Machamp and misleads children. Many parents believe that the whimsy of art not only takes up children's study time, but also makes them believe some Machamp puzzles. It's ok to play with artistic creation occasionally, but it's definitely not possible to study art in depth. Alice in Wonderland gives several counterexamples: Carol, the author of Alice in Wonderland, wrote Machamp in Disturbance and is an excellent mathematician. Many strange things that Alice met in wonderland reflected medical and mathematical problems. Doctor Who, an enduring British children's science fiction drama, always warns people in some scientific fantasies that there are all kinds of miracles in the universe, and it is very interesting to believe in all kinds of mysteries. Leonardo da Vinci, a famous painter, is also very accomplished in science. He first put forward the hypothesis of heart valve, and he also made many complicated mechanical designs.

It can be seen that science and art do not conflict, but bring more vitality and depth to each other.

Everything has animism.

Scientific knowledge limits children's imagination. I often hear mothers sigh that it is good to learn this knowledge, but the child's imagination is gone. If children know that the sun is a fireball with constant hydrogen fusion, will children imagine that there are three feet living in the sun? It is easy for parents to have such worries. But the more you know about the world, the more you don't know Why is there so much hydrogen in the sun? If there is a solar wind, can we make solar sails? These curiosities inspired artistic creation. While explaining the world scientifically, art endows the unknown part of the world with the possibility. The more questions children want to ask, the more unique their creations will be, because science has opened up a wider world for them.

Compared with flowers and the sun, they can scientifically imagine the micro-ant society in distant galaxies or below.

Expand your imagination in the universe.

How can art and science be combined when children explore nature? 1 Let children get in touch with nature. Many parents' natural exploration in China is undoubtedly the same as visiting parks. Children are limited to watching, drawing some flowers, birds and trees and knowing some plant names. However, many natural explorations abroad refer to learning to make a fire in rainy days (a necessary skill for boy scouts), so that children can feel the stimulation of nature properly. If he wants, he can taste the bitter soil and touch the sticky frog. These games arouse children's enthusiasm and let scientific knowledge naturally integrate into children's activities. If children want to pick wild fruits everywhere, they must first learn to distinguish local plants. If a child wants to make a fire, he must be able to understand the principle of fire. When children touch the mucus on frogs, they will ask why frogs secrete mucus (the answer is to keep their bodies moist). Some parents will ask, what does this have to do with art? Many times, in order to remember the names of plants, children will instinctively learn to draw plants on paper. This instinctive artistic creation is much more effective than loving in expensive training classes. And these real on-the-spot feelings also strengthen children's expressive power in artistic creation. When they draw frogs, they will try to show the sticky touch of frogs in their memory. This is something that ordinary art teaching cannot do. Many empty words in class, such as "express your feelings", are easy to realize in science textbooks.

Let children learn art and consciously accept art education, because art education plays an important role in their growth.

Art education can promote children's all-round development and improve the knowledge structure. Art education can train children's hand, eye and brain coordination ability. Art education can improve children's aesthetic feeling. Art education can develop children's imagination and creativity. Art education can cultivate children's sound personality. Art has infinite charm. It cultivates children's personality, so that children can build up their self-confidence, develop their potential and feel happy in the process of feeling, experiencing and expressing.

In the past, due to economic constraints, many children in ordinary families could not accept learning art. Now parents are willing to create conditions for their children and cultivate them to learn art.

Of course, parents should observe what their children are suitable for learning before making a decision. Don't follow suit, plan the future for your children when you see what other children are learning. Children have their own hobbies, so parents should respect their choices and let them receive the art education that suits them best.

Is it necessary to provide art training for children from an early age? The answer is yes. However, parents must not turn their children's artistic accomplishment into a passport to enter the superstructure, like those parents in TV dramas. In this way, the quality of children will not be really improved in the end, and they may go to the point of no return for their own selfish interests-just like those girls in the play.

Nowadays, children spend almost all their spare time developing hobbies. In addition to strengthening their academic knowledge, they either take part in sports training or art training. This shows how important art training is in today's society.

Since the college entrance examination is based on cultural knowledge, why do parents have to train their children in art? This is because people in modern society have gradually pursued art.

First, art education is an important part of children's all-round development.

Second, art education can satisfy children's aesthetic feelings.

Third, it helps children to form a sound personality from an early age.

Einstein said: "Imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited, and imagination summarizes everything in the world, promotes progress and is the source of knowledge evolution."

More importantly, artistic edification helps to strengthen moral education and supplement morality with beauty.

The characteristic of art education is that it is not compulsory, but arouses people's interest, touches people's feelings and makes people receive a happy education through art activities. Through art education, help children learn right and wrong, good and evil, beauty and ugliness.

Therefore, art education is never only the artistic creation itself, but also the nourishment of children's life. Moreover, the ultimate goal of art education is not to train more artists, but to enrich and nourish children spiritually.

I think there are two main reasons why children learn art:

1. Learning art can cultivate children's tough character.

First of all, why do children have to learn an art? Because no matter what art they learn, they need to stick to it, and sticking to it is more important than learning art itself! Sticking to the word seems simple, but in fact it is difficult to do. We let children learn a musical instrument in the hope that they can calm down and treat one thing more intently and rigorously while enjoying the wonderful melody. Continuous efforts and persistence, develop a hard-working, down-to-earth, indomitable character, in order to make yourself live better.

2. Help children find a window to express their emotions.

We don't want our children to learn art and become dancers, artists and musicians in the future ... through art, children can find channels to vent their emotions, both now and in the future. When they are in a bad mood, they can relieve their mood through art. Can they be happier?

Therefore, these benefits of letting children learn art can benefit children for a lifetime and are worth trying and persisting. The learning process is long and difficult, and the final harvest will never let you down.

I just wrote an article some time ago, "Why do I let my children learn art? I think I can answer this question. The full text is as follows (a little long, you can skip it):

One day, a mother asked in the group: Do you like impressionist works? Why do I look so beautiful? I like it so much that I can't say why.

Many people say they like it, some say they don't understand it but it's beautiful, some say they like the rhyme of Chinese painting best, and some say I think every painting is beautiful.

Painting is our most common art type, and some people even equate art with painting. Ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, many paintings let us see the beauty and even experience the shock. Painting was born together with human beings, and has evolved together to the present, becoming an indispensable spiritual product of human beings. It is not surprising that we experience shock in this art.

The pursuit of beauty is also integrated into people's blood and is innate.

Art is the source for many people to experience beauty. We can't experience beauty from life, but we will find beauty by presenting life through art, because art comes from life and is higher than life, so we can jump out of ordinary life and experience the beautiful meaning of life.

When I was a child, I liked painting very much. I think Chinese painting is too beautiful to be described in words. No one told me the common sense of painting, no one instructed me to learn painting, and no one told me how to appreciate painting. Everything is a primitive life tendency, which comes from the love and appreciation of a pure heart. Later, art class became my favorite class, and there was no one. Later, when I had the ability to arrange my holiday life, I signed up for an extracurricular art class, where I learned to draw and write calligraphy. The long summer vacation arranged by my hobbies has become a beautiful memory in my life. It makes me happier than any class in my school, because I saw many beautiful, elegant ink paintings and exquisite paintings there.

In fact, every child has this pursuit of beauty, as long as we don't destroy his innate perception of beauty. Every child likes the colorful art world. Everyone has a love of beauty.

Let children learn and explore with the beauty of nature, and he will have 100% initiative and enthusiasm. Therefore, some experts suggest that children should not learn painting too early, because skills will destroy children's natural aesthetics and interest. I quite agree with this view.

We let our children learn painting in order to let them see the beauty of this art, know and enter the world of painting, improve their aesthetic ability and interest, and know and enjoy the beauty of painting, not to let him become a painter, not to let him master one more skill, not to let him win prizes, nor to let others learn. The purpose of not following the child's nature and talent will eventually fail.

Art forms are diverse and diverse, and of course it's not just painting.

Music is another common art form. It is also an art of engraving human genes, which makes people feel it. The fetus can sense the rhythm of music in the mother's belly.

If a person has never felt music, he may grow into a special person.

We let children learn all kinds of musical instruments, sing songs and sing operas just to conform to their innate perception, so that they can better feel the rhythm of the world, the moving melody of nature, the throbbing of human hearts, the vast universe and the beauty of human beings themselves. It is closely related to our spiritual world, and it is an important spiritual food and indispensable.

I saw a video on the Internet. China's first generation pianist, 87-year-old teacher Wu Yili, played Liang Zhu. She played fluent music when she came trembling on the stage. At that moment, she felt the world was quiet.

This is the power of music art.

Some people say that music has healing power, and I deeply agree with them. I often dare not listen to music because it is too healing for me. It often shocks me, arouses deep feelings and suddenly releases my dissatisfaction with reality. Every time I listen to music, my heart is full of irrelevant words such as time and space, life, years and so on, which will make people cry. I don't know anything about music, and I don't even appreciate it, but I know its beauty, and it goes straight to people's hearts.

Similarly, we learn music because of its beauty, which nourishes our plain life. We don't want to be famous and have a family, and we don't want to have more skills. After all, there are many musicians, singers and stars in this world, and most of them are ordinary people. We are like ordinary men and women in the Book of Songs who crisscross the Yangtze River. When we are in leisure and love, it is enough to express our feelings with rhythm. And when we learn it, our rhythm will be more beautiful, and our feelings can be better expressed and expressed.

I once heard a mother who took her children to learn the piano say, "The most amazing change brought by learning the piano lies in the heart-if beauty belongs to the heart. I used to feel sleepy when listening to classical music, but now I sometimes feel that pop music is too thin, and only classical music is thick enough. Its beauty brings joy beyond words. "

This is the meaning of learning music!

Literature and art are also our common arts. For example, novels, essays and poems that we often read, and even chicken soup for the soul that you are most familiar with, are all literary works. But this kind of art is often regarded as useless learning, because it can't see its practical use, just for fun.

I'm studying this useless art.

Very useful to me!

I study it and make a living from it. I learned it, and it became the background color of my life, bringing me light, warmth and happiness, enough to resist this cold and restless world. It even gave me the ability to keep a distance from this vulgar world, and made me more awake, the nature of live high.

Many celebrities have defined the meaning of this art, each with its own merits, but without exception, it is a compliment. It can be seen that this useless learning is still widely used.

One day, I read this sentence: literature is the star light in the sky, illuminating every moment of you and me.

Suddenly feel: there is no better meaning than this!

Literature is the starlight in the sky, illuminating every moment of you and me. I read it silently several times.

This is the power of art, comparable to heaven and earth. In our life, we absorb the essence and make us become advanced animals. Without art, even if we are born as human beings, we will be disqualified from the world.

There are various artistic forms, all of which express people's pursuit of beauty and their love and admiration for the world.

Let children learn art in order to let them have a wider world, richer emotions, higher aesthetic taste and better perceive the world.

However, no matter what art we let our children learn, the first goal is to make him feel more beautiful in this world, so that more knowledge can help him have the freedom to enjoy the beauty of art and know how to touch the world with aesthetic feeling. Everything else is secondary.

Art includes calligraphy, fine arts, music, dance, folk art, literature and other rich contents. Let children learn relevant knowledge from an early age and cultivate the following aspects:

First, cultivate sentiment.

Learn music, art, recite literary classics, etc. Let children feel all the beautiful things in life, which can inspire them to discover beauty, know beauty and record beauty in the form of music, art or literature, and cultivate beautiful sentiments from an early age.

Second, cultivate children's strong and self-disciplined personality.

Dance art has strict requirements on movements and forms, and every movement requires perfection. Sometimes, for an action, practitioners need to practice it dozens or hundreds of times to complete it. In this process, you can cultivate your child's tough and strong character. Strict requirements for body shape enable them to control their diet and cultivate self-discipline.

Third, cultivate children's confident and calm personality.

For example, the study of calligraphy is a step-by-step process. People who need to write can calm down and practice calligraphy calmly, which can cultivate their down-to-earth and calm character. The study of dance and folk art is conducive to improving children's physical and language expression ability and making them more confident and calm in public.

Although it is of great benefit for children to learn art, it should be decided objectively according to their innate conditions and hobbies. They must not blindly follow the trend because of anxiety and comparison, and make wrong choices to delay their children, which is not worth the loss.

I want to get a little halo and make others envy you.

Calligraphy is a national treasure. For thousands of years, countless sages have continuously introduced new artistic crystallization. It is also the crystallization of Chinese civilization and traditional culture. Children's learning calligraphy has a good influence on almost all fields in the future, and children will be better than others in any industry under the same conditions in the future. .......

1. Studying art can cultivate students' perseverance, attention and imagination and improve their intelligence, especially their logical thinking ability.

2. Be able to experience the fun of artistic activities for life.

3. Learning art can improve children's self-enclosed personality, perfect personality and cultivate temperament. You can express your special feelings and vent your bad emotions through art;

4. Learning and playing art can improve children's temperament and quality of life, so that children can better control and regulate their behavior.

5. Art can regulate emotions and relax children, thus enhancing memory and improving learning acceptance. By studying art, your children can also master better learning methods (because you can't learn art without thinking).

1. Develop your imagination

Studying art, children can learn what they like according to their own interests and wishes, and can cultivate their bold thinking.

2. Promote the harmonious development of body and mind

Art itself is a game. Under the influence of art, children express their feelings and vent their emotions in an artistic way, so that their psychology can be balanced.

Improve memory

Children learn art, such as painting and playing the piano. What they learn is not nothingness, but a memory recovery of reality. Children will turn out the memories stored in their minds when they feel foreign objects, and then express them abstractly in an "immature" and "naive" way.

4. Cultivate aesthetic ability

For children, cognitive ability and aesthetic ability are weak, and aesthetic standards are still vague, but aesthetics brought by artistic environment can correctly guide children's aesthetic ability.

Let me explain the problem from several aspects:

0 1

It is always difficult for children to learn some art.

Anyone who has been a parent may have such an experience. When a child begins to learn the piano, he feels very fresh. Touching the piano is like receiving a new toy, and he is unwilling to put it down. When the novelty passed and only boring hard work remained, he was unhappy. He began to cry and cheat, blaming his parents for coaxing him.

Generally speaking, it is necessary for parents to persist in this situation and encourage their children to persist. After all, you can't learn any knowledge or artistic skills without hard work.

However, when communicating with children, you can't be outspoken, and you need to tell the truth to the children thoroughly. I think many parents can't speak this truth well because they don't understand it, so naturally they can't.

It is no wonder that words like art and aesthetics are relatively tall, and it is inevitable that they are vague and ethereal, children will not listen, and parents themselves feel guilty. But if you say that art can make people happy, children will probably be willing to listen. However, the practice of art is very bitter and boring. How can it have anything to do with happiness?

This involves the basic knowledge of aesthetics and a series of important issues.

For example,

What is beauty?

What is aesthetics?

What is art?

As far as I'm concerned, it won't be too profound and daunting, but it will make children feel out of reach. In my opinion, the so-called "beauty" is something that can keep you happy. And art is the object and carrier of beauty.

Kant said that beauty is a pleasure. When you appreciate something and feel happy, it is beautiful, and this process is called aesthetics.

When you meet a beautiful girl in the street, if you haven't seen enough, you can't help looking back. This is called "turning back".

An aesthetic object, the higher the "return rate", the more beautiful it is. The more you look at a painting, the happier it is, the more beautiful it is, and the higher its artistic value.

Therefore, art and aesthetics are not mysterious and profound. They are things that can make you happy. We should not be afraid, but embrace them bravely.

02

Kant divides human happiness into three categories: sensory happiness, moral happiness and aesthetic happiness.

You like to eat hot pot, spicy and spicy makes your mouth fragrant, which is a sensory enjoyment;

You have done a good deed, and there is a lofty pleasure in your heart, which is a moral pleasure;

The difference between these two kinds of pleasure and aesthetic pleasure is that sensory pleasure is purely perceptual, moral pleasure is purely rational, and aesthetic pleasure is in between, which is "semi-perceptual and semi-rational pleasure"

For example, when people and cats see a fish at the same time, the cat will only think of eating or not eating, because the cat has no reason but only sensibility, and it only has sensory pleasure and can only find pleasure from food; People are different. People can fully grasp all the characteristics of fish, including all kinds of associations and imaginations about this fish. This kind of imagination is only a genius, and aesthetics comes from it.

Kant calls this aesthetic process "reflective intuition", which shows that aesthetics is first an intuition about the immediate things, and then things need to be processed and created through reflection and imagination, and the result of "reflective intuition" is aesthetic feeling.

Zhuangzi's appreciation of fish is an aesthetic attitude.

Zhuangzi is not a fish, so naturally he doesn't know the happiness of fish. However, Zhuangzi doesn't need to answer Keiko's cross-examination, because Zhuangzi is appreciating beauty, and beauty is not an object of understanding, but an object of appreciation. It is a scientist's business not to know the true feelings of fish. In the artist's view, fish, as an aesthetic object, doesn't matter what it thinks or whether it is really happy. Artists just help fish to be happy.

Zhuangzi saw the fish swimming around with his eyes, so he felt the same way with the fish, imagined the free and carefree state of the fish, and felt happy. This is a complete aesthetic process, and it is an aesthetic pleasure in which both sensibility and rationality participate.

What people's unique imagination needs to deal with is not the practical value of this object, but the aesthetic value of this object.

If you just want to eat when you see a fish, you are still in the instinctive stage of animals, just animals; If you can appreciate the beauty of a fish, then you are a complete person, because you know that kind of beauty, that kind of aesthetics and that kind of happiness that animals can't get.

People who don't understand beauty are not worth living all their lives.

Because, this is really a waste of the talent that God gave you.

03

Dr Carl Banac, director of the music department of Boston University in the United States, said in his welcome speech to the parents of new students: "Music is not a luxury, nor an unnecessary thing that we spend when our wallets are bulging. Music is not a pastime or entertainment. Music is the basic need of human survival and one of the ways to make human life meaningful. "

Dr. Karl explained why music is the basic need of human existence by using the story of Olivier Messiaen, a French composer, writing the Quartet at the End of Time in a concentration camp.

In June during the Second World War, 1940, Olivier Messiaen was arrested by the German Nazis and detained in a concentration camp.

There is no business, no entertainment, no hope or even the most basic respect in the concentration camp, but there are many artists like Mei Xian. Fortunately, Mei Xian met a cellist, a violinist and a clarinet player in prison, which gave Mei Xianmeng the idea of creating a quartet for such a special group. A compassionate guard in this prison provided him with paper and a place to create, which could only meet the most basic living conditions.

It can be said that art, like eating and sleeping, is a part of existence and a basic need for human survival. In the concentration camp where people were almost deprived of all their freedom, Mei Xian proved with art that "he is still alive and his life is meaningful".

04

People are different from animals. Animals are trapped in the laws of nature and can't break free, and the meaning of their existence can't prove itself. The freedom of human beings allows human beings to transcend the laws of nature and ask the meaning of their own existence.

Whether it is morality or art, it is a confirmation of the meaning of human beings.

When we appreciate an oil painting, a sculpture, or a piece of music, we can clearly feel the luck and beauty of being a human being from the rich and delicate emotions that gush out from the depths of our hearts.

We hope others can get the same aesthetic feeling from these beautiful works of art that we appreciate. This is the mystery of aesthetics and art, not profound, very kind.

We can confidently tell our children: If you want to be happier, learn some art!

The happiness brought by art is irreplaceable by a good meal. This kind of happiness is not only advanced, but also lasting, and it is a gift to accompany you all your life.

Without this kind of happiness, it is the greatest risk of wasting life.

I hope it helps you.