“Art at school as preparation for life and work”
Anton Chekhov, a great Russian writer, said, “Everything in man should be beautiful: the face, clothes, soul and thoughts”.
If you look at this statement from the point of view of pedagogy, you will understand that such an aspiration to total beauty is the result of successful aesthetic education.
Aesthetic education is carried out not only by educators and teachers in kindergarten or at school. This is an ongoing process, which begins in the family and lasts your whole life.
The purpose of aesthetic education is to develop the human ability to perceive, appreciate, analyze and create beauty in everyday life and in art.
Art attracts us from early childhood. Art attracts us from early childhood. At the beginning of their lives children do not know how to express their thoughts, so they begin to express their feelings, experiences, thoughts through the image, using lines and colors. Artistic work manifests the inner world of the child, his mood, attitude to the surrounding reality.
Questions of aesthetic education, methods of teaching, modern and interesting forms of work has always been an important theme for exchange of experience among teachers.
Therefore, scientific-practical conference dedicated to the arts in school as preparation for life and work, has become a very important event. This conference was held in Moscow from the 31st of October to the 6th of November, 2017. The conference program was rich and varied. It included exhibitions, a visit to the Pushkin Museum, professional competition of pedagogical skill, as well as the ceremony of awarding the winners of children’s competitions of the Union of teachers-artists. The conference participants had an excellent opportunity of communication, professional support and exchange of experience between teachers-artists of Russia and foreign countries.
The participants from Russia and many foreign countries have a great opportunity to share experiences, communicate personally, discuss important issues of training and education, to have a professional support.
The cultural program of the conference was varied and interesting. The delegates visited the State Museum of fine arts named after A. S. Pushkin, one of the largest art museums in Russia, as well as the art galleries of Europe and America XIX–XX centuries, exhibition of drawings by Austrian artists of the early XX century Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. The exhibition contains a total of about 120 works from the collection of the Albertina Museum in Vienna.
In summary, the scientific-practical conference “The 24th Annual “Workshop Boris Nemensky” the participants received certificates, diplomas.
