Where to begin
Then the question arises: “Where to start?” Before my eyes is the ballet “Swan Lake”. I remember from school some difficult-to-understand works by famous composers. Those moments when a music teacher plays a piece during a lesson and asks about the intended plot of the music. But we were not interested at all and became bored.
How can a child be interested in all this, if some parents themselves are plunged into depression? In fact, we shouldn't base our school memories on music lessons. Not everything was available there at that time and music teachers mostly stuck to the program. Although, of course, there were exceptions. Therefore, let's start studying the classics together first. On the other side.
The peculiarity of introducing a child to works of art is that it should be unobtrusive. There is no need to sit your child down at the table and talk to him about the lives of great masters. Everything should be relaxed, easy and with a little understatement. Try to interest the baby so that he wants to know more and more. The main thing is to let the explanations be age appropriate. It’s better to start explaining only when the baby asks himself. When something interests him. In the meantime, you can start like this.
I can recommend a good book by Elena Danilova “My first book about art” . The book is intended for children from one to 5-6 years old. She will introduce kids to world fine arts. With this book you can inspire your child to love beauty.
- The history of fine art is a huge and incredibly interesting book that can be read endlessly. And if you share the joy of discovery with your children, the world of art will be filled with new colors and emotions. I have 8 years of study and practice, 2 years of teaching and, most importantly, 3 years of happy motherhood. Answering questions from my friends, listeners and readers, and watching my daughter, I developed several universal formulas that will turn getting to know art into a useful and enjoyable pastime.
1. “When should I start introducing art to children?” - this is the most important question that I am asked at the very beginning of my lectures and seminars. I cannot give you a definite answer to this, because all children are different. It is most effective to begin introducing a child to the visual arts when he begins to speak: clearly pronounces individual words, recognizes objects depicted in pictures in books, and tries to construct his first sentences. 2.5 - 3 years is the age when your trip to a museum or reading a book already turns into a kind of dialogue, when the child can easily answer who is depicted in the picture or what color the little girl’s dress is. So this is the best time to start getting acquainted with the world of art.
However, we should not forget about the temperament and character of the child: some contemplative children can leisurely wander through the halls for hours, while for others, even two minutes near a painting or book is real torture, because they have to run, explore and discover. Nothing terrible will happen if you start a little later, when the baby is ready for your stories about paintings and artists.
2. Where to start getting acquainted with art? Fine art depicts, so start with the simplest questions: “who”, “how many”, “what color”, “where”. Last names and dates are something that not only children, but also adults have a hard time remembering, so it’s better to start with genres. Tell us that paintings that depict trees, fields, rivers, village houses, oceans with ships are called landscapes, and paintings in which you can see different people are portraits. Grigory Gladkov’s children’s song “If you see it in a picture” will help you, the words of which I remember from my childhood. The genres of portrait, landscape and still life are explained there using ordinary objects, images and phenomena with which your child is already familiar. Therefore, he will remember at least three genres and learn to easily find them among the numerous masterpieces of the museum halls.
Then you can add several more genres - for example, a household genre that depicts events of everyday life. Or you can delve deeper into already covered genres, explaining that a landscape in which the artist painted the sea or ocean is called a marina, and a portrait in which a queen in an elegant dress or a general in a uniform with orders appears before us is called a ceremonial portrait.
3. Is it possible to study effectively at home? Of course you can! There are a huge number of books for this purpose, for every taste and budget. In addition, I advise you to acquire reproductions of paintings by artists that will be of interest to children. These could be paintings by V. M. Vasnetsov, an artist who translated fairy tales familiar from childhood into the language of painting, landscapes by I. I. Shishkin, telling about the beauty of nature, masterpieces - riddles by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who composed portraits from fruits, vegetables, books and dishes, as well as works by Flemish and Dutch masters, which are always full of children, animals and other details that are interesting for a child to look for and find together with mom and dad. You can find an image in good resolution on thick paper or purchase ready-made albums - collections.
4. Come up with creative activities. You can, for example, show the magic formula for mixing colored gouache and get 3 more colors from just blue, yellow and red. You can use them to paint your own home masterpiece in the style of Henri Matisse. Which, by the way, children love very much for its simplicity of shape and brightness of color.
A child of 5-6 years old can already be told about warm and cold colors, and then together analyze what shades the painter prefers in a particular work. You can try together the technique of pointillists - artists who create paintings from fractional dot strokes. To do this, you will need an old pencil, the back of which is convenient to fill the surface of the sheet with numerous dots, turning into a bright mosaic.
5. How to make a trip to the museum interesting? First, be mindful of time. Even to my adult listeners, I do not recommend excursions in the “entire museum in 3 hours” style. I recommend going thoughtfully, choosing 1-2 rooms and delving into only one topic. For example: “French school of painting of the Rococo era”, “The art of Byzantium”, “Sculpture of Ancient Greece”. Going to the museum with children follows the same scheme: one hall - one topic - 35-40 minutes, which will help you consider and remember the most interesting things.
Try bringing a notepad and a magnifying glass with you. These two items will turn an ordinary trip to the museum into an exciting adventure, because now you are not just a mother and baby, you are famous art researchers who need to find and count the dogs and cows depicted in the painting, check whether there are craquelures on it (cracks on the surface ) or discover the date of creation of the work, which the artist hid on an old stone or a mossy spruce trunk. All results can be recorded in a notepad. In it you can sketch your masterpiece, inspired by the paintings of Picasso or Serov.
You can start a pleasant tradition - at the exit from the museum, buy 2-3 postcards with the paintings you like the most. Be sure to ask your child which picture he liked and remembered. The postcard will become not only a pleasant memory, but also a useful acquisition - you can put together a collection that will help you conduct a family “guessing game.”
Tanya Bykovskaya , author of a blog about art ***
Summary of GCD in the senior group. Getting to know the artist Bychkov and his paintings
Summary of direct educational activities for children of the senior group (5-6 years old) on the topic “Acquaintance with the artist A.A. Bychkov and his paintings”
Description of the material : I offer a summary of direct educational activities for children of the senior group (5-6 years old) on the topic “Acquaintance with the artist A.A. Bychkov and his paintings.” This material will be useful to teachers of the senior group. Objectives: 1. Continue to familiarize children with landscape as a genre of fine art.
2. Talk about the work of an outstanding artist, our fellow countryman V. Bychkov 3. Bring children to understand that the artist does not just depict nature, but conveys his attitude to what is written. 4. Teach children to perceive works of art, to find poetic images of nature in them. Progress of the lesson:
The teacher gathers the children around him and the conversation begins like this: “At the beginning, I want to ask you a riddle: Where can you see a meadow where flowers do not fade: autumn trees whose branches do not fly off their leaves, snow that never darkens or melts?( children's answers) The teacher summarizes: All this can be seen in the paintings of landscape artists.
What kind of pictures do we call landscapes (children's answers) Educator : Would you like to visit a place where the grass in the meadow never withers, where the leaves of the trees never fly away, where the snow never melts? (children's answers) Music plays and shows on the screen landscapes by V.A. Bychkov
: “Autumn Leaves”, “October has already come”, “July Evenings”, “In the Winter Garden” - showing a portrait of V.A. Bychkov.
Educator : Today I want to introduce you to the work of a wonderful artist, our fellow countryman V.A. Bychkov. Viktor Alekseevich was born on October 17, 1956 in the city of Kovrov. He graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.E. Repin (1988). V.A. Bychkov is a participant in various art exhibitions in our country and abroad. The artist’s works are in state museums, including our Historical and Revolutionary Museum. More than 20 works are kept in private collections in a number of foreign countries. Viktor Alekseevich works in a variety of genres: portrait, still life, landscape and subject painting. Educator: V.A. Bychkov’s favorite time of year is autumn, do you want us to go there? (yes) Display: large image “Autumn Distances” Educator
Pay attention to the painting “Autumn Distances” from forests, from fields, from all over nature, thick colors , the greenery was washed away by the rains.
The dark colors of summer gave way to timid gold, purple and silver. Not only the color of the earth changed, but also the air itself. It became cleaner, deeper than in summer. A piercing wind tears chilled leaves from the branches and throws them into the cooling water of the river. The tired, heavy sky is covered from the approaching cold by gloomy clouds. Questions for children: 1. What was the artist’s mood when he worked on this painting? 2. What means did V.A. Bychkov use to convey peace and solemnity? (warm gold, soft azure, smooth lines of a calm river stretching into the distance) 3. At what time of day can we observe such a picture? At this hour, will it be cold outside? rivers? (pay attention to the leaves that are torn off by the wind) The great poet N. Nekrasov conveys his attitude towards such an autumn in the poem “Before the Rain” A mournful wind drives a flock of clouds to the edge of heaven. The broken spruce groans, The dark forest whispers dully. On a pockmarked and motley stream, a leaf flies behind a leaf, and a dry and sharp chill comes in a stream. The teacher invites the children to pay attention to another autumn landscape, “October has already come...” (show “October has already come”) Educator : What mood does this picture evoke in you?( children's answers) But paintings can cause not only sadness, but also anxiety and tension, as in this landscape (we draw the children's attention to the July evenings in the painting) - You look at the painting and it’s as if you feel the smell of honey herbs, warmth emanating from it, you can hear chirping grasshoppers and the voice of a cuckoo in a distant forest. Everything is alarming and tense in this landscape: the darkening green of the trees and bushes and the dark blue clouds rushing across the sky, and the yellow moon resting in them. It seems that someone hid behind the bushes. Full of alertness. The whole state of this evening landscape, plunging into twilight. Its mood is a vague feeling of something gloomy. This state of nature was conveyed by A. Blok in his wonderful poem “Summer Evening” (the teacher reads the poem) “Summer Evening” The last rays of sunset lie on a field of compressed rye, embraced in a pink drowsiness, the grass of an unmown boundary, neither a breeze nor a bird’s cry. Above the grove is the yellow disk of the moon, And the song of the reaper fades away in the midst of the evening silence. The teacher draws attention to the landscape “In the Winter Forest”
- What poem do you want to read while looking at this landscape? (children read the poem) The teacher invites the children to answer the following questions: 1. What kind of fairy tale characters do you think could live in such a place? 2.Would you like to visit here during the day? and at night? 3.What colors create the dark, mysterious atmosphere of the picture? -Now let’s imagine that we find ourselves in one of these paintings (children choose which one they would like to be in and perform movements corresponding to the painting to the accompaniment of classical music) -What time of year did you visit? (children’s answers) -And I visited the autumn picture. To preserve my impressions of this time of year, I took a piece of autumn with me (the teacher makes a composition of autumn gifts on the table (the children look at the composition and make their own)
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Painting
How to introduce a child to masterpieces of painting? It's good if you live in Moscow or St. Petersburg. The Tretyakov Gallery and the Hermitage can impress a child. And it’s easier for you to tell and show famous paintings here. However, in museums and galleries in other cities there are not such a large number of paintings. And, of course, after visiting the main museums of the city with your little one, you will want to continue.
Now we, modern parents, have a wonderful assistant in finding information - the Internet. And here we will find a lot of wonderful works. You can choose some, especially those authors recommended by child psychologists to start getting acquainted with the paintings. That is, they should be light, cheerful, maybe with children or animals. Review together.
For example, such artists as Shishkin, Vasnetsov, Nesterov. Then you can begin to complicate it, showing more complex works where you need to reflect and think. Even Leonardo da Vinci. All the generations that existed before us and we also struggled with the answers to the riddles hidden in the paintings of the great artist. Just for fun, ask your child what he thinks about the Mona Lisa. You can also show paintings with a plot, a specific scene.
And here is the main point! Be sure to watch your baby's reaction very carefully. You can’t continue to get acquainted with art against the will of the baby, insist, while getting angry. Everything has its time. And so it is with kids. He may want to look at the painting right away and ask about it. Or he may be ready to watch it only in a few months. Don't rush him. Everything will come in due time.
The second point is to observe if the baby becomes agitated while looking at the picture or is frightened by some plot. Ask him if he may not want to consider it further. So it's not time yet. Save it for later. Continue to other works. And remember that the child is looking at you, at your reaction, at your emotions. If you took your little one to an exhibition of paintings for the sake of formality, you yourself stand and yawn. And then don’t expect the baby to be interested. Go together when you're both ready. You need to tune in.
MAGAZINE Preschooler.RF
The importance of introducing art to preschool children The need for kindness and beauty in a child is noted from the first days of his life. Having barely mastered basic movements, the baby reaches out to a beautiful, bright toy and freezes when he hears the sounds of music. Having matured a little, he looks at the illustrations in the book, saying: “beautiful,” and he himself tries to create on paper with a pencil a beauty that only he understands. At the senior preschool age, he is already inventive in choosing what is beautiful, has his own opinions on this matter and, based on his capabilities, “creates” beautiful things in order to surprise, delight, and amaze us, adults, with the ability to see the world around us. An indispensable means of shaping the spiritual world of children is art: literature, music, sculpture, folk art, painting. Art speaks in figurative language, it is visual, which is close to a preschool child. What is valuable is that it awakens a philosophical attitude towards life... It is impossible not to remember the words of A.A. Blok, a subtle connoisseur of art: “Painting teaches you to look and see (these are different things and rarely coincide). Thanks to this, painting keeps alive and intact the feeling that children are distinguished by.” How accurately noted, how laconicly and at the same time succinctly characterized the pedagogical possibilities of painting and the characteristics of children's perception! The influence of art on the formation of a person’s personality and development is very great. Without raising aesthetically literate people, instilling respect for spiritual values from childhood, the ability to understand and appreciate art, without awakening children's creative principles, it is impossible to become a harmoniously developed personality. With the help of painting, older preschoolers also develop their mental activity: the ability to make generalizations based on analysis, compare and explain, and develop inner speech. Why is it important to develop inner speech? It helps the child plan and express his judgments, correlate the conclusions that arose as a result of perceiving the artist’s plan. Inner speech, in addition, contributes to the manifestation of one’s own intellectual and emotional associations, as it were, lays the initial foundations for the creative perception of art. The words of N.G. Chernyshevsky seem profound and modern: “An educated person is one who has acquired a lot of knowledge and, in addition, is accustomed to quickly and correctly understand what is good, and what is fair, and what is unfair, or, as they say in one word, accustomed to “thinking,” and, finally, whose concepts and feelings received a noble and sublime direction, that is, they acquired a strong love for everything that is good and beautiful. All these qualities - extensive knowledge, nobility of feelings - are necessary for a person to be educated in the full sense of the word." It is not difficult to notice: constant communication of a person with the world of fiction lays down not only the habit of thinking, comparing and contrasting, but also directly leads to strengthening him of sublime and noble feelings and thoughts. The path to the formation of an aesthetic attitude, aesthetic consciousness, begins for a child, first of all, with the accumulation of various aesthetic impressions, especially visual, tactile and auditory. It is necessary to teach him to emotionally enjoy the beauty, expressiveness of surrounding objects and phenomena, to give an aesthetic assessment to certain characteristic properties and bright details. On the basis of such evaluative activity, taste will be formed as a sensual - evaluative ability of a person. However, all the richness of a work of art will not “flow” from the pages of books, paintings, from the stage or screen, into the creation of a young listener, viewer. Perceiving a work of art involves active activity, which requires appropriate preparation. The great French sculptor O. Rodin said: “Look, look long, look again!”, believing that the perception of an artist’s work is also a creative process. It is important that every child learns to enter the vast world of images of works of art, so that he sees with his inner eye what the artist wanted to convey, and feels like a participant in the events depicted. The child needs to be shown that art excites, makes you rejoice, have fun, be sad, protest, hate, fight. Show that each type of art has its own specific artistic language, that its content is conveyed by certain means of expression, which the artist selects according to the intent of the work. The development of artistic perception in children involves solving a wide range of problems. First of all, the volume of knowledge and ideas about art. Next is the development of the ability to express one’s attitude to the work, the cultivation of responsiveness. The latter implies the need to form an idea, in particular, about fine art as a special way of understanding life and the world, explaining the meaning of the work of an artist who does not just “copy”, but always expresses his attitude towards what is depicted, conveying it in the forms of painting. List of references: “For preschoolers about painting” by R.M. Chumichev, “We are entering the world of beauty” by S.G. Maslov, “About art for kids” by E. Ivanov)| Next > |
