Hunan Provincial Museum and the Education Bureau of Furong District Jointly Held Art Educational Activities

The exhibition of “Light and Shadows: The Oil Painting of Tuscany, Italy 1850-1950” are now held by the Hunan Provincial Museum in Dahexi Pilot District Planning Exhibition Center. In order to provide the students who are enthusiastic about the western paintings with a chance to get a close touch with western masters’ works, Hunan Provincial Museum cooperating with the education bureau of Furong district held several educational activities. The activities, covering the lectures on arts, seminars, exhibitions of students’ works and tour exhibitions in school etc, aim to broaden the horizon of teachers and students and develop their aesthetics ability by making use of museum resources.

In the afternoon of May 8th, all education staff from the education department of Hunan Provincial Museum and the director of art and sport center of Furong education bureau as well as headmasters and teachers from different primary schools in Changsha attended the educational activities held in Donghui primary school.

The art class "Rhapsody of Nature"

Educational activities began with an art class “Rhapsody of Nature” delivered by an art teacher He Sijia. Her lecture starts with an introduction of the works of “ Light and Shadows” exhibition , enabling students to feel the visual effect of those paintings. Ms.He firstly chose several representative works to explain to her students the concepts of image expression, abstract expression, figurative expression, three-dimension designing as well as their application in art. Then, students were divided into several groups to make the poster “Share the Nature” by hand. In the poster, birds and cottons were made of petals; rainbow was made of colorful rice and the Earth the disc pieces put together. They also made a piece of advertisement work for 3D printers to call on people to save papers and create a environment-friendly society; The work “Sign of Spring” expressed the Children’s visual and auditory feelings for nature in the Spring. Another work, “Rhyme of Spring” paint the light, shadows and the spatial relationship between different objects by cotton swab, pigment and bread with paint.

Finally, a seminar was attended by staff from Hunan Provincial Museum and schools. Participants made exchanges concerning teaching ideas and forms of art classes as well as the requirements of and advices to those educational activities co-organized by museum and school. School leaders and teachers expressed their appreciations to Hunan Provincial Museum for its support and assistance to the art education in school. They hoped that schools and the museum would utilize complementary advantages of each other and jointly host more similar activities, striving to enrich the training of teachers and to develop students’ capabilities in many aspects.

At the seminar

An exhibition of the works created by students