Art is a component of culture, is the use of skill and imagination to create objects, experiences, melodies or environments in order to achieve the aesthetic pleasure in the observer. Traditionally it is said that art feeds the soul, and who made this statement are not wrong. Art is a dynamic and unifying activity, with potentially vital role in the development of children.
Drawing, painting or building is a complex process in which the child meets various elements of their experience to form a whole with a new meaning. In the process of selecting, interpreting and reaffirm those elements, the child gives us more than a drawing or sculpture; it gives us a part of him, how he thinks, how he feels and how you look.
Artistic skills develop in stages. Paying attention to these stages, teachers can plan activities that capture the interest of students. After teaching children the foundations of art, let them express themselves artistically without restricting their subject matter. Progress will take to go from basic ways to representations of life daily.
Primary Students
As students move from scribbling to draw pictures that represent the world around them, teach younger practicing shapes, lines and colors. A painting or drawing tool easy to handle and a piece of paper is all that children this age need to practice the basic elements of art. Art classes at this stage include the teacher modeling and opportunities to practice drawing different shapes and lines. The class also must be accompanied by time to identify shapes and lines in real-life images. To identify colors, you can include a collage of images of the same color and magazine clippings and paintings created with the same nuances and shades. Take time to experiment by mixing paints helps children identify shades and tones.
Intermediate Students
Art classes for older than primary students, they move from symbolic illustrations of the world towards more realistic, they must include the encouragement and the opportunity to practice. Classes must provide practice using all the elements and principles of art for students to feel successful in their attempts to do realistic art. At this age, art classes and drawing should be fun and active and promote success and experimentation. They should be practiced shapes, lines, colors and textures using representations of everyday life. Students can draw giant shoes that demonstrate an ability to make different types of lines, shapes and textures. Some examples of abstract art of great artists provide interesting examples of how principles such as the value and space. Students of this age enjoy the challenge of recreating classic works of art while practicing a variety of elements and principles of art.
High School
Having learned or been exposed to the elements and principles of art in the early levels of education, high school students studying styles of art and masterpieces. They experiment with expressing their feelings and moods through art instead of trying to copy objects from real life to which they are not connected. A class with older students the opportunity to research includes different art styles and feelings that a work of art communicates. A wide choice of materials and object of study is part of a class for students of this age, so they can work in different areas of interest. Teachers can group classes around a genre of art as abstract or impressionistic.
For the child, art it is primarily a means of expression. It is for them, a language of thought. The child sees the world differently and, as it grows, his expression changed. A child expresses their thoughts, their feelings and their interests in the drawings and paintings made, and demonstrate the knowledge possessed by the environment, through their creative expression.
