Art as a Two-Way Communication

For the Possibility of Art Education as a Basis of All Human Activities

Abstract

In this article, establishing oneself and expanding one's view of the world as a result of encountering the “foreigner” is characterized as a two-way communication. Based on my previous article entitled “Consideration of the Exterior World-“Stranger” in M. Duchamp and the Scribbling of a Child”, this article investigates it with specific reference to woodcarving class in high school art education. Subsequently, attention is focused on drawing class for kindergarten children aged 4 in order to provide further insight into the positional superiority of the “learner”, as the “foreigner”, over the “teacher” and art education as the dialogue between the “learner” and the “teacher”. In addition, the article suggests that art education, fostering creativity derived from a two-way communication, can serve as a basis of all human activities.