Analysis on Creativity Application in Painting Teaching

Lihua He

School of Art Design, Wuchang University of Technology, Wuchang, Hubei, 430223, China

Keywords: Painting teaching, creativity, application.

Abstract: With development of education and talent training, creativity application of students has been the main

direction of teaching innovation. Painting field, with characteristic of creativity and artistry, has been the

direction of teaching innovation. Based on single, rigid and nervous classroom atmosphere in painting

teaching, teachers should fully exert subjective activity and search for the corresponding improvement

scheme, thus achieving creativity excavation and application of students.

1 INTRODUCTION

In teaching, domination of Chinese, mathematics

and English has been past, and painting, music and

performance are gradually on the right track, thus

making an important meaning of improving

comprehensive quality of students. In painting

course, the creation of students cannot be

comprehensively evaluated by “like or not” and

“beautiful or not”. The teaching target of this course

is gradually close to development of students. This

change can be suitable to the trend of talent training,

and the characteristics of children including opening

thought and flexible mind at the present stage

(Zhang Xiaohong, 2014). Teaching and learning

mutually affect, so the teachers can find suitable

teaching method, and adjust teaching target and

plan, thus making the modified effect more and

more popular.

2 PRESENT SITUATION OF

PAINTING TEACHING IN

CHINA

2.1 Single form of painting teaching

As a creative behavior, painting course plays a role

of arousing divergent thinking and creativity of

students in the process of training. At present,

insufficient attention has been paid to painting

course, reflected in weak teacher resource, lack of

specialty of teachers and occupation of painting

class in most of the schools. This situation is caused

by laying stress on course of Chinese, mathematics

and English and achievement for examination for a

long time in China. It is difficult for school and

teachers to realize the importance of painting

teaching to creative adaption and intelligence

development (Hu Lichang, 2013). So, the teaching

activity of painting is restricted. On the one hand,

although some schools set up painting course and

provide the students with books, teaching target and

better teaching method are not researched by

teachers. On the other hand, painting learning is

restricted in composition and color filling with brush

and white paper in some schools, thus causing lack

of understanding and necessary practice of other

painting forms. The essential reason is narrow

teaching idea and vision. Stay in basic painting form

for a long time will restrict creative thinking and

manipulative ability and make painting teaching as

the eight-part essay.

Painting, as a kind of diversified art, can

effectively liberate human nature and divergent

thinking. At the stage of mental maturity and

flexible mind, the students should be provided with

wide stage. Oppositely, painting teaching are tied up

with fixed form and thinking, thus making painting

teaching no sense and losing a chance of

individualized training for students (Zhu Yuefeng,

2011). Consequently, the disadvantages are more

than advantages.

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Analysis on Creativity Application in Painting Teaching.

DOI: 10.5220/0006445301290132

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2.2 Fixed teaching target

Painting course in some responsible schools is better

than that in other schools, such as rigorous teaching

procedure, teachers with professional painting

qualification, scheduled teaching target, etc.

However, in order to catch essence of painting

teaching, flexible control should be achieved in the

teaching process. In general, the teaching plan

teachers draw up is compulsory. E.g. the students are

required to learn brushwork of some kind of little

animal in a few class hours, and exert themselves in

the latter part of the course, etc. However, because

of limit of teaching time and opportunistic teachers,

most of painting classes are the learning process of

copying works of teachers, and the students can

hand over a beautiful work to school and parents.

The teaching target and procedure actually violate

the meaning of painting teaching and job

requirement of teachers, although seeming perfect.

Such teaching mode makes creative painting

education fall into old teaching idea and mode, thus

seriously affecting active and optimistic teaching

ethos.

The reaction ability, flexibility and inventiveness

of students, the strongest in their infancy and

boyhood, should not be ignored. Once missed the

period, it will be difficult for creative teaching

activity of teachers to achieve good effects, and the

potential development of students will be

meaningless. Teaching target is stable. However, if

teachers cannot control the degree, the stability will

change into rigid restriction, thus limiting thought of

students and the teaching activity of teachers.

3 NERVOUS ENVIRONMENT

CAUSED BY TEACHERS AND

PARENTS

For a long time, learning effect of students has been

a target for teachers and parents, and the students

have become larger group under pressure in society.

The children are expected to get excellent

achievement by the teachers, and perform better than

others by parents. However, with weak ability, the

children require comfortable environment provided

by teachers and parents, thus promoting

maximization of all abilities of students. In fact, the

expectation of teachers and parents has

unconsciously evolved into exaction and

compression. In addition, immature mind, unsolved

pressure and heavy schoolwork burden result in

deformity of their learning behavior. So, it is

difficult to present excellent achievement teachers

and parents expect, thus restricting development of

children themselves. In painting teaching which

should have been easy and joyful, some teachers

evaluate the paintings of students with ugly words

because of the reason of themselves, or

unintentionally compare the paintings, thus making

the students nervous. Besides, the students are more

afraid of strict or arbitrary evaluation by parents.

Psychology of nervousness, fear and anxiety can

produce negative emotion and big shadow in the

next painting class. E.g. the students only create

images that parents and teachers like or ever praised

using normal color configuration, and they are afraid

of expressing what they are thinking actually. It is

not good for students. As the so-called normal

aesthetic formed in this process, their thought or

creativity is blotted out. Parents and teachers should

calmly think about which is more important.

4 SEVERAL WAYS OF

CREATIVITY APPLICATION IN

PAINTING TEACHING

4.1 Expanding diversified painting

teaching

Actually, the form of painting can be divided into

abstract painting and realistic painting according to

properties, and into painting on the glass, canvas,

board apand container according to painting tools.

Kinds of expressions can be transferred to painting

class. School should increase financial support,

because painting teaching, which is the same as

other art teaching, requires certain hardware support.

This good effect to be formed in the future should be

expected, thus deeply affecting creativity

development and aesthetic training of students.

Besides paintbrush, painting tool including

crayon, scrubbing brush, pigment, nicking tool, etc.

should be used to expand art vision of students. So,

they can understand artistic convey and performance

with different forms, thus promoting diversification

of expression in painting and other fields. In painting

teaching, the way teachers teach and students learn

will directly affect development level of students’

creativity. Diversified painting teaching, according

with thought of modern education, has an advantage

of artistry compared with Chinese, mathematics and

English. The teachers are provided with space of

teaching innovation and constantly try the new

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teaching form The students learn interesting content

for their research in order to increase ability and

efficiency of autonomous learning. So, the creativity

of students can be deeply developed by a higher

platform provided by diversified forms of art, and

the teaching activity of teachers can be easy.

4.2 Actively excavating creative

thought of students

Regular teaching mode cannot be suitable to the

requirement of modern talent training to teaching

activity. In this teaching mode, students will be slow

to respond and short of flexible ability, instead of

regular pattern of behavior and thought. Research

shows that a baby of eight and nine months has two

special abilities including distinguishing different

faces of apes and slightly different voices. However,

nine months later, the two abilities will disappear.

So, the training of children should be controlled in

specific periods. Once missed, it will directly affect

training of ability and quality. Likewise, the training

of students’ creative thought should be controlled

in a certain period. In this period, a more reasonable

education scheme should be established by teachers

or parents to effectively improve creativity of

students. In early learning, the students are the most

active in thought, and the teachers can help them to

detect similarities and differences between things

and expand thought according to striking pattern,

brilliant color and different expressions. So, the

students can be encouraged to present their own

thought and original view by using untried

expressions. The teachers should be more active to

make the students overcome fear and pressure, thus

forming intelligent way of dealing with things and

flexible thinking. Besides, the teachers, as the guider

in teaching activity, should help students get actual

achievement through persuasion of thinking and

language. Meanwhile, without intervening behavior

of children, the teachers should give them with

suitable help, thus improving their autonomous

ability and activity of learning behavior.

4.3 Establishing comfortable teaching

environment

Teaching environment has an influence on learning

attitude, emotion and creativity of students. So,

comfortable psychological environment, the same as

hardware facilities and class environments, should

be provided for the students. Training activities of

creative thought should be added as follows:

exhibition of creative works of calligraphy and

painting can be developed; the students can be

organized to watch documentary of art and

masterpiece; the students who got achievements in

artistic field like painting can be commended. The

teachers should try to approve and praise thought

and works of students in daily painting teaching as

much as possible. They should tactfully evaluate

some unsatisfactory works, instead of criticism and

blind denial. So, the students can be happy to

achieve more diffusion and association of thought

and make full use of their creativities in creative

process.

In addition, comfortable learning environment

and active psychological state can form

polymerization advantage, and good atmosphere of

the whole team or class can benefit teachers and

students from cooperation and healthy competition.

Quality an art work is not intelligence of somebody.

The group or collective formed in teaching can make

an effect that one plus one is more than two, thus

increasing ratio of good works in class. Once the

collective advantage is formed, intense thinking

inertia will take shape in students. By using creative

thought in daily life, the students can develop the

habit of observation and thinking, which is

beneficial to painting, each aspect related and

students the whole life.

5 CONCLUSIONS

In fact, painting teaching is the easiest to develop

creativity training of students, and its advantage in

morphology and property can easily attract students.

Likewise, the creative thought of students can be

reasonably used in painting field. This relationship

provides creative application of painting teaching

with right timing and place. Besides, more feasible

attempt should be performed by schools and

teachers. In painting class, certain modern education

characteristics can be presented by introducing

diversified forms of painting teaching, constructing

learning environment without pressure and

improving original teaching method. So, training

and application of creativity can be promoted, and

this kind of teaching mode can be permeated into

other teaching fields, thus pushing comprehensive

development of modern education.

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Hu Lichang, Learning to Enjoy Paintings of Children,

Little Writer Selection: Teaching Communication,

2013 (12): 483-483.

Zhang Xiaohong, Analysis on Painting Teaching Merged

into Various Fields, Examination Week, 2014 (31):

192-192.

Zhu Yuefeng, Return of Children’s Happiness of Doodle,

Forum on Education Research, 2011(11): 27-28.

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