On the Construction of Educational Significance of Modern Technique : Concerning Practices and Reports at the Introductory Periods

Abstract

After the war, art education aimed to acquire a wider perspective. This was reflected in the acceptance of modern art. Accepting modern art, art education moved toward a new approach. Practice through modern techniques was considered a new kind of art education. But such practice was misunderstood and severely criticized just because it was a new style. Noriaki Fujisawa and Morikazu Katsuta repeatedly put it into practice in order to remove the misunderstandings and to search for a new way of art education. Mr. Katsuta was searching for some significance as fundamental education in those practices. On the other hand, in connection with children, Mr. Fujisawa came to move towards a new art education that would lead to an improvement in children's expression, playing and imagination. In addition, he, on the basis of an idea of post-war democratic education, planned for art education with a wider perspective, and he went on practicing to make alterations in the former art education.