Abstract
The production of various technologies today seems to expand the possibilities of human beings who use them, and to make the relation between the humans and the outer world closer, reducing both time and space. However, weather this is certain or not should always be questioned. In this report I have tried to interpret the feature of humans today and to show the possibilities of the activity of expression in Art Education. In the modern society, in other words "the society of visual and electronic media", the theme of Art Education should be the recovery of children's humanity (the biological nature of human), and is mentioned as the necessity of direct experiences using hands and bodies, including the recovery of the sense of touch against the precedence of the sense of sight. I have searched for the possibilities of the activity of expression which creates the encountering with materials, and of the spontaneous expression in the "encounter" with material motifs beyond the measure of descriptive techniques. These come from the sense of materials and Arts which you can see in Japanese traditional architecture, that is "The Art is not what humans compose from materials but what they make the material itself open and form into". And I've interpret modern techniques from the viewpoints of encountering and touching materials, and the recovery of the human's physical nature. In modern times which have created the loss of opportunities of direct experiences, and the progress of visual media, the activity of expression making full of use of five senses to interpret the relation between the humans and the things around them, and which produces the chances to enable us to face objects, should be meaningful.
