Sponsor: Hanying Senior High School

Time: June 16, 2016 (Friday)

Lecturer: Art teacher at Hanying High School
Teacher Ke Darren

Location: Conference Room 2F, Administration Building

Lecture content:

The speech was started from the perspective of sharing how to appreciate traditional Chinese ink art:

  1. Introduction to the development of Chinese landscape painting

  2. Introduction to landscape painting schools and techniques

  3. How to appreciate a landscape painting: spatial arrangement, compositional balance, brush strokes, ink color, artistic conception, signature, and seal.

  4. Technique Demonstration

  5. Screen composition demonstration

Thoughts and feedback:

The planning time for the day's course was the last two classes on Friday. All the teachers' work for the whole week came to an end. They participated in the energy-enhancing study organized by the school. Although everyone was physically tired, their mood was happy.

Teacher Darren shared many very practical and basic viewing and identification skills, such as the balance of space and observation of distance, or the interactive relationship between scenery and characters in landscape paintings, or observing the painter's brushstrokes and ink use. The teachers present Everyone suddenly realized that the landscape paintings that looked the same in the past were actually different in so many details. Teacher Darren also explained two of the most famous landscape paintings: Guo Xi’s Early Spring Picture and Fan Kuan’s Journey to the Mountains. He told all the teachers present one by one why these two paintings were considered by art critics of all ages to be the masterpieces of Chinese landscape paintings. Everyone has benefited a lot.

This study is actually a bit like the literacy journey of aesthetic education. Normally, everyone is stuck in their academic and teaching positions. In fact, they have forgotten that teachers themselves should also have the qualities of a whole person, so that students can be successful in teaching. He is deeply influenced by the situation and has the basic literacy of aesthetics in daily life.