Abstract
The rapid development of science and technology has created a culture of visual saturation in South Korea. Education must meet the reality of this new world by requiring a wide range of creative expression activities though a diversity of vi...
Abstract
The rapid development of science and technology has created a culture of visual saturation in South Korea. Education must meet the reality of this new world by requiring a wide range of creative expression activities though a diversity of visual images.
This study focuses on how to direct the future of art education in the midst of changes in visual culture through the development of visual media. Changes in visual culture demand the development of visual literacy.
Among many media, this study uses pictures to gain an understanding about visual information. It helps to enhance abilities to use visual images by effectively restricting them. Moreover, the subjects, who are junior high school students full of curiosity, can understand themselves better and foretell their future through the making of photomontage which allows them to learn about themselves. And, its purpose is to provide them the strong motivation and opportunity to find out many different paths in constructing their future.
The study divided the concept of visual cultures into a image viewpoint and a cultural viewpoint, and it has found that visual culture has some interesting characteristics worthy of study.
▪First, it acknowledges visual perception compared with other senses.
▪Second, it places emphasis on the social context.
▪Third, it contains a variety of media applications.
▪Fourth, it suggests an integrated approach with the multidisciplinary concept.
▪Fifth, it requires an ability to communicte visually.
▪Sixth, it studies both aesthetic values and social issues.
These characteristics of visual culture are reflected in visual culture education, and they become important standards for suggesting new directions in future art education.
Also, in regard to the change in visual culture brought by the invention of photography and the change in people's perception toward the obgective world, this study provides a teaching method that consists in using photographs for art education in secondary schools.
The concepts of photomontage contain three characteristics: confession, facticity, and the possibillity for self-investigation. The self-investigation possibilities, which can allow one to improve and develop the self, can be seen as the category that is most suitable for effective visual education. There is educational value in making photomontage. First, the subject can reflect the past, the present, and the future. Second, the subject can find his or her true self. This kind of study helps people to develop their seuse of personal identify. Also, this study creates fun for the subjects who can express expressing their creativity and originality by using pictures, and it provides a high educational effect on them.
This study proposes a teaching and learning program using photomontage which is based on the educational value that the photomontage has utilizing the characteristics of photography.