Modern art as educational material

Abstract

The task of art is not to train artists, but rather to expand the perceptual ability of people. Artwork is a factor in education. Art only ever allows itself to be perceived for the first time. Masterpieces, always unsettling, always unknown, are the ones that impose always being seen anew. The aim of our educational proposal is not art, but rather the new perception of the world and of life that art has raised awareness of. We do not teach how to look at art; it is art who teaches us how to look. Educators must attempt to understand the artistic process as a stimulus for the creation of new perceptual systems and be able to transmit it. Therefore, we incorporated in the Degrees in Early Childhood and Primary Teacher Training the analysis of the work of artists who have explicitly posed new perceptual abilities. Based on these works, the future teachers proposed exercises for primary school children, who are always curious. In turn, the children returned a proposal, their discovery. These will be new works, a reflection in a distorted mirror of the works of these authors: John Cage, Bob Wilson, MerceCunninhham, Lazló Moholy-Nagy, Alexander Calder, Dada, and Llorenç Barber.