On the Importance of Art Theory in Art Education

With the continuous completion of Chinese educational system, teaching course content of higher education has been increasingly richer and people's philosophy of receiving education is also increasingly stronger.In order to respond to the nation's call of developing comprehensive education, some universities have added basic courses of art educations one after another.Some parents send their children to professional art training classes for professional training and some students sign up for art academies in college entrance examination to realize their art dreams.Art theory courses are the basic links of art education.Only by laying solid basis can one realize his dreams of art.This paper explains the importance of art theory in art education from the perspectives of the content of art theory and learning art theories.Art theory is the most basic and most critical teaching content in art education.To primary art students, art theory is especially important.It can provide valuable technical guidance to students.At present, many art academies pursue the improvement of students' art techniques excessively in art education without realizing the importance of art theory and such unbalanced education viewpoints and educational methods go against students' comprehensive development.Valuing the teaching of art theory and "engaging in idle theorizing" are never the same.In art education process, the teaching goal of valuing professional theory courses is to keep the balanced status between technique course teaching and theoretical class teaching so that every student can obtain comprehensive development in professional art education. Concept of art theoryDefinition of art theory.At present, many art academies pursue the improvement of students' art techniques excessively in art education without realizing the importance of art theory and such unbalanced education viewpoints and educational methods go against students' comprehensive development.Valuing the teaching of art theory and "engaging in idle theorizing" are never the same.From the perspective of the essence of aesthetics, most artists believe that art theories are practical summaries of people in the creation process of art forms.Generally speaking, people's generalized understanding of art theory includes art history, art basic theory, artistic aesthetics and artistic criticism.However, to academic field, the narrow category is usually adopted, which means that art theory refers to basic theories of art.Basic theories of art take art works creation and art works appreciation as research objects and are integrated into natural real life.When they are studying art theories (including discussion on the essence and characteristics of art), they are also studying sociology, psychology and art philosophy. Development history of Chinese art theory.In earlier stages of art theory development, there was no systemic art knowledge system or concept of art theory, and there were only viewpoints of art creation, which became the predecessor of art theory.China has 5000 years of historical civilization and art developed every early.As early as Shang and Zhou dynasties, painting types which took lacquer painting as art forms had appeared.With the emergence of characters, some viewpoints on art were also documented in literatures.The pre-Qin period was the most glorious period in Chinese cultural academic history, in which the prosperous scene of "contention of a hundred schools of thought" was formed.Art theory development under this background."Painting after simplicity" "unrestrained painting" and "dogs and horses are the most difficult to be painted" were the earliest record of art theories.They not only have guidance significance on art painting, but also have rich philosophical thoughts.When it came to the Period of Wei, Jin and Southern and