What is the primary purpose of Art Education?
Educating in art means suggesting the direction toward the invisible, through the visible, within an exploratory and creative process, along which intuition is refined and the meanings of human existence are continually reconstructed.
If educating, from the Latin educere, means “to draw forth,” an art education program is such when it succeeds in bringing out the best in a educatee, enabling him/her to embrace the lights and shadows of his/her own personality. At that point those lights and shadows can be transformed into creative thinking—in a word: into new beauty to be donated for the common good. And this often overturns meanings and ways of seeing and feeling.
Art education, in short, helps art flow freely in human existence and existence interact freely with art.
Humans, by nature, have always looked for a perception of beauty in the world of art, in order to provide themselves with that same primordial psychophysical pleasure. Not only that. When we are able to read and interpret a given form of beauty, we connect with the person who created it and with that same experience he made, making it our own. Because art acts and generates experience even simply through contemplation.
Looking and seeing, feeling, or touching an artwork creates a deep connection and fosters a broad and transversal vision, encouraging the interested party to exchange and compare, to communicate freely, without preconceptions. This generates in them a feeling of fulfillment that unites with the whole and opens to change and evolve in life.
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