Art education is one of core subjects that help students develop creativity and its key task is to present active approaches to the development of creativity on the field of teaching. But, art education based on this idea has been neglected on the fie...
Art education is one of core subjects that help students develop creativity and its key task is to present active approaches to the development of creativity on the field of teaching. But, art education based on this idea has been neglected on the field of schooling due to factors of academic environment in curriculum and class hours. The essence of art education is not merely in cultivation of esthetic emotion and training of professional artists but in cultivation of artistic gift, ability and creativity inherent in everyone. This research is aimed to double the effect of creativity development through the use of objects in art class for first-grade middle school students. In addition, it focuses on seeking practical and concrete ways for them to participate in art class. The effects of art education through the use of objects are as follows. For starters, the use of objects is very effective in drawing interests from students as it is linked directly with their daily lives. Moreover, it is possible to have students participate in art class by encouraging them to look for objects used in schooling for themselves, The use of objects in art education is principal media of schooling that provide activities in which students can conceive their own way of self-expression by accepting diversity and variability and at the same time, it can promote creative thinking. They come to have a fresh approach to a problem on the basis of various information and ideas with the form of expression called the object. Through this research on the basis of the above effects, we find that art education through the use of objects can extend the activities from simple painting or making things to visual and tactual experience with objects. Besides, it offers concrete ways to maximize creative expression of learners through idea exploration and elaboration process by help of the method for creative solution for a problem.