Today is called the age of globalization and information. Culture has served for a person's richer life as well as for the nation's competitive power. and especially, traditional culture education is urgently required for the youth who will lead the f...
Today is called the age of globalization and information. Culture has served for a person's richer life as well as for the nation's competitive power. and especially, traditional culture education is urgently required for the youth who will lead the future society in the rush of multinational culture. Since traditional painting, among traditional cultures, has functioned to convey the social and cultural meaning of the times to the future, its character has been defined 'to help understand arts and take a loving attitude for it in the historical and cultural context, thereby contributing toward creating art culture by fostering self-esteem toward the traditional arts' in the 7th National Curriculum.
Therefore, this study selected figure painting which is most easily accessible in the appreciation area in the middle school textbook as the subject of study in order to design a teaching plan for traditional figure painting appreciation, aiming at discovering the aesthetic value of our traditional painting and internalizing the aesthetic sense which has been formed in traditional figure painting by learning to appreciate the works of figure painting.
Thus, this study identified the teaching methods and appreciation methods required for the appreciation classes of traditional figure painting by referring to the previous theses and literatures to design teaching plans.
Also, it used the questionnaire survey of 1st-grade middle school students who are properly expressing the Korean spirit by accepting culture voluntarily and analyzed the actual situations of traditional figure painting appreciation education so that it might find out several problems. As a result, the content of middle school art textbook was divided into three areas: aesthetic experience, expression, and appreciation by the 7th National Curriculum, where the traditional figure painting works are more included in the expression area rather than the appreciation area, while at school the art textbook-centered traditional figure painting appreciation classes have been practiced.
The survey showed that most students were not interested in traditional figure painting, which seemed to result from their burden on learning materials and western painting-oriented education, and the majority of them answered that the purpose of traditional figure painting appreciation was to get higher academic scores, from which it could be concluded that the students did not attend to the class voluntarily.
The improvement plans for study were inferred from these results as follows;
First, the subject of traditional figure painting appreciation education should be the students. A teacher presents some basic information of appreciation as a guide to draw subjective feelings from students in order to incorporate self-directed learning. For this purpose, various teaching media should be utilized instead of textbook-centered appreciation, teachers retrained while receiving professional education.
Second, teaching materials and curriculum should be developed based on the student's competence. The traditional figure painting works created by students and modern artists needed to be more carried in so that the students might encounter the works which employed various expression techniques as well as those that were created by their peers so as to inspire their concern and interest in traditional painting.
Third, more opportunities for the students to visit art gallery and museums should be given for the learner-based education. Specifically, if they were provided with more opportunities to come in touch with the works of arts, school education and art gallery and museum visit could be systematically coordinated to devise a utilization plan for comprehensive knowledge and information environment, so that art appreciation could reach further to the students.
Fourth, various programs should be developed by applying our traditional figure painting appreciation. The appreciation method which can be practically adapted to the appreciation classes should be consistently studied for the students so that they might not think traditional painting and old pictures such hard, strange, or difficult and turn away from them. Accordingly, various methods for diverse interesting appreciation classes should be searched for and developed proper to the modern senses.
Finally, it is concluded that the most important thing is 'cultivation of aesthetic feeling' through the understanding of the traditional painting. Traditional painting appreciation education will surely help students be more interested in and attracted to our culture and establish their self-identity as Korean in the world by growing their aesthetic feelings by which they can feel and enjoy the beauty of ours.