Evolution Of Art For Educational Purposes In The Early Twentieth Century., China

The Chinese modern history has independently created culture of this time, which is controlled by persevering national spirit and democratic awareness. Education has experienced many changes in this tide of history, from private shools to the establishment of new-type schools in the late period of Qing dynasty, and then to the development of national period, even to the school education of revolutionary period, which has played an important role in Chinese history. The Chinese modern art education had an constant development and improvement during this peorid. With the development of social system, economy, people's spiritual needs, and even the ideology of the ruling class, the purpose of art education has also evolved, and has perfected itself in the whole eudcation system.The evolvement of the purpose of Chinese modern art education is a mark of trace of Chinese modern history, is a renewal of nation, is a epitome of the development, is a pillars of purpose discipline of Chinese modern history. Since the development of Chinese modern art education from previous mentoring teaching to school teaching, it shows that the purpose of Chinese modern art education is going to be a institutional one with a clear target, and bears education task in modern history. Research on the evolvement of Chinese modern art education has a great significance in the effect of art education in current Chinese eudcation. The current art education caters to the public demands, expresses the artists'mind and soul, and demonstrates a complex social status----fickleness, verfallen, frivolity and luxuriousness. In today's erosion of western culture, whether the purpose of art education lies in cultivation or serving for social economy, lies in cultural inheritance or derivation of one kind of culture and another culture? To a some degree, the purpose of art education in different periods reflects economic status, political basis, people's material and cultural needs of that time.Based on the statement of purpose and development of art education, this paper makes a systematic presentation on Chinese modern eudcation and Chinese modern art education, and discuss the evolvement of purpose of modern art education through primary review of purpose of art education in late period of Qing dynasty, national period, and revolutionary period. To state purpose of art education in various periods through the literature materials, which includes the settings of art course, implement, and specified class hour. The paper studies the functions of purpose of art education in various periods, and forms the theories of purpose of art education in this time. Meanwhile it forms the author's own understanding of today's art education, which has a referential effect on the future study of purpose of art education.