2020 Volume 41 Pages 181-197
This paper examines the issues facing subject-specific art education, specifically basic design education in art-department teacher-training courses. We found some of the common problems in arts and handicrafts education, particularly in the practice of artistic play activities, and sought ways to resolve them. We report on how the Basic Design Exercises class is conducted within teacher-training courses at art faculties. We observe changes in forms of expression, from the idea of “artistic creation as an event that occurs when the human body encounters a material,” which was the starting point of 20th-century design and art, to developments in the advanced information- based world of today. We then consider new forms of artistic action whose expressions encompass people’s relationships with one another and with society and show the possibility for a basic course for the next generation in which the focus shifts from primary education to subject-specific education.
