The purpose of this study is for students, who are living in a visual environment and consuming visual images, to have an aesthetic experience through visual media. To help with the study, the students are in need to comprehend the meaning of visual i...
The purpose of this study is for students, who are living in a visual environment and consuming visual images, to have an aesthetic experience through visual media. To help with the study, the students are in need to comprehend the meaning of visual images and to internalize the characteristic of visual images and to be sensible of artistic value in daily life. For this, the study is focused on current art education's direction and interest, and analyzed the current art education plans and the third grade of middle school's seven different textbooks on art education.
A visual image is a way that delivers the visual information of images and sounds that come from refraction or reflection from lights. It also duplicates the image perfectly, and has the distinguishable characteristic of manipulation. Therefore, the visual image distinguishes itself from previous media by the change in media languages, expression of motion and combined senses, the combination of time and space, the creation of a reality in society, and the improvement of interpretation possibility. From an analysis that how the visual image has been suggested in the seventh revision of education, visual materials and other activities have been included as visual cultural environments and also included according to the change of social and culture. Also, in each section of expressions and impressions, it has been suggested to widen in expressions media and field through photography and visual media. In the section of impressions, the understanding and activities on an art culture have been reflected actively. On the other hand, current art textbooks have been emphasizing heavily on the sections of expressions and the impressions of an aesthetic experience through visual media. Especially in the expression section, activities through photography and animation have been focused on and in the impression section, many artists from various fields such as video, neon, light art, hologram, etc. have been introduced simply in regard to art history.
Based on the analysis, there are five facts of current aesthetic experience activities through visual media in the current art education system in schools.
First, even though there have been activities on visual media, there have been mostly only focused on limited photography and animation.
Second, most art classes focused on the visual media have been focused on the sections of expressions and impressions, but most students still understand half of the meaning of the visual media. This unfortunate factor comes from the activities of expressions and impressions have been held without a clear understanding of the visual media.
Third, it has been said that most students have felt the need of art lessons with an activity of visual media and this comes from the students having the interest. Also, the students felt the need to understand about what they experience daily from watching many kinds of visual images from anywhere.
Fourth, most of the students wanted to learn how to express their ideas and thoughts by using the visual media and how to use the visual media that are given to them through the art education of visual media. This shows that the students want to be able to apply their abilities to use the techniques of visual media more than just understanding the visual media.
Fifth, many students seemed to have much interest in the aesthetic experience through the visual media and they hope to participate in various activities through photography, advertisements and video clips.
From these factors, this study has focused on outlining of an aesthetic experience based classes through photography, advertisements and video clips after having a clear understanding of visual images around us instead of previous art classes which have been limited to expressing existing photographs and animations.
First, through 'the experience of a public benefited advertisement of Korean Water Resources Corporation,' students get to watch the public benefited advertisement and investigate to internalize its worth of beauty. They also can understand the advertisement's purpose and its artistic characteristic and then discuss about the advertisement's function and a role.
Second, through 'expressing oneself with a personal character after seeing a photograph of oneself,' students can identify the difference between their true identities and what they see themselves from the photographs. Based on this activity, they can express their personal characters uniquely. Therefore, the students can realize the influence of images that are made from the media and how the visual media often influence us without always realizing.
Third, through 'understanding the advertisement that loaned the art piece with critique attitudes,' the students can appreciate the advertisement in daily life and how the art pieces can be used in various ways. From these advertisements, students can also appreciate the art piece by learning the title, the artist, historical background and the artistic element, characteristic and its structure. Also, the students can learn the big picture of the advertisement by grasping the purpose and the effect of the advertisement that loaned the art pieces.
Fourth, through 'making video clips about modern customs,' the students can use the concept of the modern customs and publications of the art pieces. They also can embody their experiences from their thoughts and opinions on the modern customs. Therefore, they build the understanding of the current atmosphere from their own eyes, and share and communicate their ideas with others by posting the video clips on the web-sites after learning about the process of making the video clips.
Based on the teaching plan above, the public class was held from May 6th, 2009 until May 20th in Daejeon Munhwa Girls Middle School class 6 and 7 of grade 3 for 66 students about 'developing video clips on modern customs.' During the classes, the students had a chance to understand the meaning and the characteristics of visual images through various video clips, and they got to research modern customs that are surrounding them and develop their own video clips by groups. From this experience, the students could understand the video clips production theory and intention of the expression. They also could appreciate how the visual images closely exist to them.
Therefore, this study understands about the appreciation of the beauty of the visual cultural environment and how closely the visual images are related to our daily lives. Also, as the owner of the current culture, the students could understand how to communicate with others not only by spending the visual images but reproducing them.