Abstract
In this study, the author tried to verify the ideas and methods of the 'analyses of old masters' by Johannes Itten, who was a teacher at the Bauhaus and directed the preliminary course there. His analyses of famous paintings were practiced by students for the purpose of re-experience of the creation, and re-discovery of color, form and structure of the masterpieces. Itten's way of appreciation education by painting or collage, which was carried out by using the hand at the same time, was started from emotional feeling and led to rational construction. The author tried also to find the actuality of Itten's appreciation education for today. Using computer and software as image media, the image data of paintings are analyzed by filters which are used to attempt to change the appearance. This new kind of appreciation education by computer also illustrates the possibility of alternatives of Itten's educational ideas and methods.
