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The importance of
historical and cultural information when viewing a work of
art aids in the viewer's fuller comprehension of that work's
significance and meaning. Our student's can begin
recognizing styles, periods, families, and relationships
between works of art and types of art, ie visual and
performing arts. Our students will also be able to begin
comparing and contrasting cultures based upon that culture's
art forms relative to their own.
1. The Getty
Foundation for Arts in Education along with the National Art
Education Association stress the importance of a more
complete understanding of the arts through the integral
study of Art History, Art Criticism, Art Production, and
Aesthetics.
2. By studying the
Historical background of the arts students will gain a more
complete understanding of a historic period of time, place,
and culture.
3. Knowledge of a work's
historical and cultural significance can aid in a students
building relationships between cultures.
4. When a student studies
a form of art the historical information and cultural
significance will aid in the expansion of a students
aesthetic of that form. For example, if a student is
studying ceramic bowls, their understanding is made more
fuller not only by expanding the warehouse off images stored
in their memory, but also in the more complete understanding
of what a bowl was made from, used for and what was
considered the perfect example of the bowl form through out
history and culture.
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