Appreciating a famous painting is like listening to a famous song. When you feel its artistic beauty and the author's thoughts and feelings, it is really a pleasure! Spencer has a famous saying: "Without oil painting, sculpture, music, poetry and all kinds of emotions caused by natural beauty, the fun of life would be half lost." Spencer defined aesthetic education as "the beauty created by human beings-the beauty of all spiritual and material products, which in turn educates people and makes them develop in an all-round and harmonious way."

Art curriculum is humanistic and is the main way for schools to implement aesthetic education. It is a compulsory art course for all students in the nine-year compulsory education stage and plays an irreplaceable role in the process of implementing quality education. In the new curriculum standards, the status of art is defined as humanities, which is the main means for schools to implement aesthetic education and civic quality education for students. It plays an important role in cultivating students' sentiment, improving their artistic and cultural accomplishment, cultivating their innovative spirit and practical ability, and promoting their all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique and aesthetics. Art appreciation is an extremely important part of it. Some excellent works of art selected in primary school art teaching basically involve the works of many famous artists at home and abroad. Among them, there are masterpieces of famous artists at home and abroad, as well as traditional folk art forms in China. The splendid artistic heritage of the Chinese nation is also an important aspect of the excellent cultural tradition of the Chinese nation and one of the essences of oriental culture. Understanding and studying China's excellent folk art works can enhance national feelings and cultivate patriotism. Appreciating the great national picture scroll can arouse national pride and self-confidence; Understanding and studying excellent works at home and abroad can also cultivate students' feelings and concepts of advocating civilization and cherishing outstanding cultural achievements of mankind. The purpose of art appreciation teaching is to improve students' aesthetic quality, stimulate their enthusiasm for artistic creation, and cultivate children's artistic appreciation ability of creating beauty, appreciating beauty, distinguishing beauty, criticizing beauty and accepting beauty.

Some appreciation modes selected in the current art textbooks are generally excellent children's art works and works by famous artists at home and abroad, which have high aesthetic appreciation value. Appreciating these works, we can feel the artistic beauty of the works and understand the author's thoughts and feelings. Understand the author's creative motivation and ideas; It can broaden your horizons, cultivate your temperament, enlighten your wisdom and improve your aesthetic taste; Make students gradually become new innovative talents with certain cultural literacy and healthy aesthetic ability, appreciation ability and discrimination ability, so as to cultivate students' innovative spirit and problem-solving ability.

So what is the aesthetic appreciation value of art appreciation course?

First, the reference value:

Appreciation teaching can provide a demonstration for students' works and creations, help students understand artistic skills, enrich artistic language, promote the improvement of performance skills, cultivate sentiment and improve aesthetic ability, which is indispensable for art teaching. For example, when appreciating excellent children's art works, students can't help but explore the expression techniques and techniques of young painters of the same age; Another example is: after enjoying the folk paper-cutting art in China, students apply the language of paper-cutting art they have learned to their own works; After appreciating foreign excellent works of art, students can learn more about various forms of works of art under the influence of different civilizations. Without the appreciation and inspiration of these excellent works, students' creation and expression will be very difficult. Successful examples are enlightening, which can often arouse students' desire to express, provide ideas for expression and greatly improve students' comprehensive aesthetic ability. Judging from the existing art textbooks, people generally attach great importance to appreciation activities before practice in class and provide as many excellent works as possible. It is used to open students' eyes and stimulate their passion for hard work.

Second, the cognitive value:

Works of art reflect the vast social life and nature, modern and ancient, China and foreign. Teaching appreciation provides students with intuitive and vivid images of the world and history. It can broaden students' cultural knowledge horizons, expand students' cognitive fields, guide students to participate in the inheritance of local culture, and also promote students' understanding of foreign cultures, so that Chinese and foreign cultures can exchange and learn from each other at a higher level. For example, to appreciate China's ancient ceramic bronze works, we should first involve primitive society and the history of Shang and Zhou Dynasties. For example, if you appreciate the Four Sheep Fang Zun, you can know the exquisite skills of the working people in China slave society. Appreciating the works of the Renaissance can help us understand the important position and historical situation of the Renaissance in all aspects of western society. For example, if you appreciate Michelangelo's David, you can understand the connotation of heroism in the Renaissance. Appreciating China's revolutionary history works can help students understand the fine tradition of China's revolution. For example, appreciating Zhan Jianjun's Five Heroes of Langya Mountain can make them feel the fearless heroism of the martyrs. At the same time, the life scenes provided by art appreciation are more vivid and vivid than written descriptions, and students can feel and understand them. Theme appreciation of works of art can also help students understand art, such as the author's life, artistic attainments and influence. Artistic language, composition knowledge, color knowledge, etc. The cognitive value of art can help students understand art in a wider cultural background.

Third, the aesthetic value:

The more important value of appreciating homework is aesthetic education. Whether it's thematic appreciation or in-class appreciation, the displayed works are exquisite and high-level successful works. Students' ability to feel beauty, judge beauty and aesthetic ideal is improved in specific appreciation activities. Appreciating the excellent works that students can accept in a simple way can cultivate students' unique vision and improve their artistic judgment. Through the analysis of the content and form, expression form and artistic characteristics of the works, students can understand the aesthetic form and artistic language contained in the works and improve their aesthetic ability. This appreciation activity needs to be carried out frequently. At the same time of a certain amount of accumulation, it can make students' eyes sharper, their thinking more artistic, and their ability to absorb excellent works of art stronger.

Fourth, the educational value:

The ultimate goal of art appreciation is education, so art appreciation has its special educational value. The appreciation content provided in the new art teaching curriculum standard basically needs to involve many excellent art works at all times and all over the world. For example, learning China's excellent folk art works can strengthen the education of national sentiment and patriotism for the appreciators. Can arouse national pride and self-confidence. Contacting and learning foreign excellent works can also broaden the horizons of the appreciator, broaden the horizons of cultural knowledge and expand the cognitive field. An excellent painting or a work of arts and crafts itself contains the author's emotions and attitudes. Criticizing ugly phenomena and praising the power of justice can help appreciators to establish a correct outlook on life and world, and cultivate their healthy aesthetic taste and rich sense of justice.

Appreciation is an active, active and dynamic aesthetic activity with works as the object. At the same time, it is also one: author-work-appreciator, and the interaction between them, and the establishment of appreciation behavior is mainly based on the aesthetic pleasure brought by the perception and experience of artistic beauty and the reflection on artistic works. In the process of appreciation, unconsciously infected, immersed in the enjoyment of beauty, the spirit can be cultivated, purified and sublimated.

The teaching content of art appreciation in primary schools has high aesthetic value, which can broaden students' horizons, cultivate their temperament, enlighten their wisdom and improve their aesthetic taste. Appreciating these works, we can feel the artistic beauty of the works and understand the author's thoughts and feelings. Make students gradually become new innovative talents with certain cultural literacy, healthy aesthetic ability and appreciation ability, so as to cultivate students' innovative spirit and problem-solving ability.