Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to explore the ideological backgrounds of the art educators who insisted the importance of expression based on realism and furthermore to clarify the characteristics of each standpoint by comparing the thoughts of the artists who pursued realism in the art movements with those of art educators. Also, it is another purpose of this paper to organize objectively the art education movements in post-war Japan by regarding realism not as an antonym of modernism but as a current within modernism. This paper will reveal the relationship between art movements and art education movements.
