“为什么学生需要艺术”台湾学者李立亨艺术讲堂 | Primary Arts Week

On the afternoon of June 20th, our primary school invited a famous scholar from Taiwan, Li Liheng, to bring a fun and interesting art lecture to our Wanyuan campus. The lectures was give to our grade four students, and was entitled “Why Students Need Art.”

李老师首先用一连串热身运动活跃起了孩子们的肢体和思维，甚至以呐喊、尖叫、跺脚的方式让孩子们以非常放松的状态融入讲座中。然后凭借一组有趣的影像，引导学生感受艺术是如何凭借技巧、想象力、经验等来创造出美的事物。

Mr. Li first used a series of warm-up exercises to activate the children's body and thinking in order to try and get the children integrated into the lecture in a very relaxed state. He then used a set of interesting images to guide the students seeing how art creates beauty through skill, imagination, experience, etc.

此次讲座中，涵盖了大部分的艺术形式，例如：绘画、雕塑、建筑、戏剧、舞蹈、音乐、文学、影视等，分别从以下四个板块引领孩子们思考艺术的价值。

1.选择比努力重要——艺术跟生活有关，不一定能帮助生存。但是艺术跟美，让你发现还有别的可能性。

2.选择需要有选项——艺术是美，是感受，让你习惯要求选择

3.提供对话的机会——艺术：意识问题，发现自我，创造价值

4.美的觉醒与平衡——接触艺术，让你习惯打开五官看世界

In this lecture, many art forms were covered, including painting, sculpture, architecture, drama, dance, music, literature, film and television, etc.  This lead the children to think about the value of art from the following four sections.

1. Choice is more important than effort – art is related to life and yet it does not necessarily help a person to survive. However art and beauty make you discover that there are many possibilities within life.

2. Choose the option you need - art is beauty, a feeling that lets you get used to asking for a choice.

3. Provide opportunities for dialogue – art allows you to have awareness of issues, to discover yourself, and create value.

4. An awakening in balance of beauty - contact with art lets you get used to opening the five senses to see the world.

在整场讲座中，孩子们时而被邀请进行声情并茂得朗诵，时而被邀请上台进行肢体表演，与李老师在一片欢乐的互动中，全方位感受了艺术在生活和学习中是如何存在的。通过这样一场精彩的交流，希望能在孩子们的心中根植下艺术的幼苗，从培养他们对艺术的兴趣开始，培养孩子们的自信，从而在不久的将来创造更高的艺术价值。

Throughout the lecture, the children were invited to recite and express their feelings. They were invited to perform physical performances, and interact joyfully with Mr. Li. They felt how art exists in life and study. Through this wonderful exchange, I hope that the seedlings of art can be rooted in the hearts of children and that the cultivation of their interest in art, will cultivate the children's self-confidence, so that higher artistic value is created in the near future.