Bookishness (copying the images of children's textbooks, especially stick figures, is rigid in modeling and dull in performance, ignoring individual expression and lacking true feelings and imagination), opportunism (painting for winning prizes, painting for stars and painting in hot places) and mechanism (copying life phenomena, feeling and experience lack sublimation and improvement, and performance is often rigid and thin, lacking imagination and artistic exaggeration). Lack of creativity), reformism (ignoring the feelings of life, taking everything from the core to the skin, looking for propositions first, then looking for information, mechanically copying, bullying), the result is to cultivate some skilled, imitative and repetitive adults, blindly imitating adult paintings or mechanically copying, lacking creativity, covering up their imagination, children are very tired of painting, and art activities have become a copying class. Children often understand things and the world through some primary cognitive means such as seeing, touching, listening and smelling. Hegel pointed out in Aesthetics that the most outstanding art itself is imagination, so it is of great significance to give full play to children's imagination, cultivate children's thinking ability and improve children's artistic accomplishment in artistic activities.
First, sprout children's imagination in activities.
Thinking is a verb, that is, using your brain and thinking hard; An image is an image, an image or a picture. Imagination is the second vision, a subjective and spiritual thing, and the space of imagination is infinite. Imagination is not limited by knowledge of nature, scientific rate, traditional ideas, moral habits, rules and regulations. And it can also break the real limitations in real images, and it is by no means a mechanical copy of reality. So teachers can't judge children's works by whether they are like or not. The number of imaginative elements in children's works depends largely on the teacher's evaluation. The teacher will take the image as the standard this time, and the child's painting will be close to the image and lose imagination next time. Teachers can try to ask questions in painting activities, so that children can change their thinking, affirm their imagination and avoid forming rigid and fixed thinking patterns. For example, in the "sun" painting activity in the middle class, teachers can suggest that children know that there are seven colors of sunlight; You can see different colors of the sun by wearing different sunglasses. When the children understand and try, the teacher will be sure in time, and they will find that the children choose different colors to draw different suns. Then the teacher can ask: Has the sun always been a round face? Children will decorate the shape of the sun: round face, long face, triangular face, trapezoidal face, patterned face, long hair, short hair and curly hair-through teachers asking questions to children, children develop rich imagination and draw exaggerated and unusual objects. The teacher will certainly exaggerate the child's imagination, and the child's imagination will also expand. Therefore, in painting. Guide them to exaggerate, misplace, deform, combine, disrupt and change the images in reality at will, thus sprouting each child's imagination. Children's imagination potential is huge, and their naive childlike interest and unique ideas often give people new enlightenment.
Second, let nature stimulate children's imagination.
Mr. Chen Heqin believes that nature and big society are our living teaching materials. He advocated that children should go directly to nature to learn and gain direct experience, so that nature can stimulate their imagination. Therefore, teachers should often take children out of the activity room, see beautiful flowers, touch trees and observe small animals, so that children's interest will be activated at once and their imagination will follow. For example, drawing a forest in a large class can let children observe all kinds of trees outdoors, and then let them freely say what kind of trees, trunks, leaves and branches they see, and reproduce the observed objects through their memories. Teachers can also summarize through pictures, slides, videos and other multimedia means, and link them with geometric figures, exaggeration and deformation, so that children can understand the differences between various trees. But it has the same rule. Through activities, teachers can encourage children to create a work about forests according to their own imagination. As a result, the teacher will find that the children have drawn strange trees, and some people may say how there is such a tree. So what! Isn't there a saying: I'm afraid I can't do it, I'm afraid I can't think of it On this basis, the teacher can let the children add pictures in the Woods they have painted, and the children will be more interested. Not only can trees be rare, but dynamic scenes can also be drawn by children through their own imagination. Of course, clever monkeys, mighty lions and tigers and beautiful peacocks in the zoo are also our living teaching materials. Seeing these lovely animals, children express their image more actively. In nature, children actively explore knowledge and participate in activities, which shows that nature not only increases children's knowledge and experience, but also promotes their intellectual development and enriches their whole spiritual world.
The famous French artist Rodin also famously said: Nature is always beautiful. Natural scenery is diverse, colorful, diverse and beautiful. Nature is the best classroom for children's painting activities. Appreciating the natural scenery opens the door for children to imagine, discover and create beauty.
Third, mobilize various senses and cultivate children's imagination.
Eighty percent of the information in the human brain comes from vision. Seeing is an important way for children to know the world, and observation is extremely important in artistic activities. Children's imagination and creativity are further developed by observing objects, reproducing objects, adding pictures, decorating, imagining and coloring.
Let children close their eyes and smell all kinds of smells, imagine while smelling, stimulate their olfactory system, and then express their feelings in various colors through communication.
Put objects with different textures and rules in opaque bags, let children touch them, stimulate their tactile system, and then paint boldly under the guidance of teachers.
Play a piece of music, let the children listen carefully, stimulate the children's auditory system, and let the children express their feelings after hearing the music with painting tools.
These attempts will achieve good results, fully stimulate children's curiosity, enthusiasm and desire to explore, and cultivate children's imagination.
Fourth, appreciate the works and stimulate children's imagination.
Children's paintings are full of individuality, and there are many places worth learning from each other, from which children's imagination and creative potential can be stimulated. Therefore, it is very important for teachers to guide children to learn from their peers purposefully. Specific methods: introduce children's creative performance in time, and guide children to imagine and create on the basis of learning. After the children finish their works, teachers can show all their own works, guide the children to enjoy watching and discover the advantages of others' works.
Appreciating and observing the works of masters is also a common form of children's painting. The works of Van Gogh, Miro, Picasso, Monet and other masters should often appear in every corner of children's classroom, so that children can cultivate their aesthetic ability imperceptibly. Of course, it is 2 1 century, and the rapidly developing Shanghai is full of opportunities. The most common activity in this modern city is art exhibition. Teachers can take this opportunity to organize children to visit, or ask parents to lead their children to visit.
Einstein also thinks that 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. Therefore, to cultivate children's imagination, we should also combine art activities with other disciplines, so that children can spread their imagination wings and fly freely in comprehensive educational activities.