Using art education to achieve general talents

Liu Liu

Culture is the spiritual lifeline of a nation, and literature and art is the horn of the times. For literary and artistic workers and art educators, only by giving better play to the educational function of literary and artistic works, making the spirit of literature and art pleasant, moistening the soul, cultivating sentiment and sublimating ideals, can we cultivate more new people of the times who shoulder the great responsibility of national rejuvenation.

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The highest state of art is to make people tempted, to baptize people's souls, and to let people discover the beauty of nature, life, and soul." Excellent works of art are like warm sunshine and spring. The breeze can not only nourish the spiritual home, improve the aesthetic level, but also meet the growing spiritual and cultural needs of the people, promote the free and comprehensive development of people, and give people a spiritual baptism. Many outstanding scientists have deep attainments in art. In this regard, the significance of art education is not only to let people master a skill, but also to shape people's beautiful minds, improve people's comprehensive quality, and achieve more general talents.

Art-based aesthetic education is an important way and basic means to implement aesthetic education, and it plays an important role in cultivating generalists. Aesthetician Zhu Guangqian once said: No matter what subject you study or what profession you do, everyone should be able to listen to music, constantly read literary works, and occasionally have the opportunity to appreciate pictures and sculptures. To better play the role of art education, we must not only cultivate art professionals with a solid cultural foundation, but also guide more people to appreciate and create beauty from an artistic perspective. Through art education, it is helpful to promote students to form good appreciation, judgment, broad vision, cheerful personality, cultivate a complete personality, firmly establish socialist core values, and then realize their own life value. In this regard, schools should make up for the shortcomings of art education and establish a complete art education and teaching system. In recent years, some colleges and universities have conveyed the humanistic care of education by offering general courses in art education, organizing viewing of art exhibitions and performances, etc.

The advent of the digital age has opened up a broader space for art education. Today, the application of new technologies such as mobile Internet, 3D technology, artificial intelligence, and holographic images has spawned innovations in literary forms and broadened the space for literature and art. For example, at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, displays such as "Countdown to the 24 Solar Terms" and "The Water of the Yellow River Comes from the Sky" combined art and digital, tradition and modernity, allowing the audience to deeply feel the beauty of Chinese culture. Art education in the digital age should pay more attention to the cultivation of humanistic spirit and explore a humanistic education system with artistic creation as the core. Through art education, students can not only see the development and progress of digital technology, but also see the ideals and beliefs behind the works of art, and see the development of society and the progress of science and technology, thereby stimulating a firmer cultural self-confidence. At the same time, we must also see that art education is not only on campus, but also includes social art education provided by social institutions. Therefore, it is necessary to mobilize the enthusiasm of relevant departments, research institutions and colleges, introduce social forces, improve supporting measures, establish a coordinated promotion mechanism, actively expand the carrier of art education, and let the seeds of beauty take root in the whole society.

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Contemporary China has a magnificent country, a heroic people, and a bright future. The times have provided an unprecedented stage for the prosperity and development of literature and art in our country." For literature and art workers and art educators, they should actively respond to the call of the times and grasp the times Only with the spirit can we capture and express the beauty that belongs to our era; only by focusing on the great cause of national rejuvenation and creating more literary and artistic works can we better demonstrate the spirit of the times, cultivate more general talents with the aesthetic spirit of our era, and nurture more good mind.