<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Visual art curriculum should allow a wide range of activities to develop children's imagination and creativity, to provide a balanced framework for the harmonious development of people who can cope with the massive ammount of images that invade our daily lives. Contemporary art develops a new language - a hybrid language - which for now remains unknown to the majority of the public and it is not integrated into the Arts curriculum. General frame analysis reveals that Fine Arts are studied only up to the 10<sup>th</sup> grade, except for the humanity profile and for the vocational arts profile. School curricula stipulate fine arts study up to mid twentieth century. Openness towards contemporary art and the language of art starting with the second half of the twentieth century is quite limited even if the curriculum allows a certain flexibility in the approach.</p></abstract>

Visual art curriculum should allow a wide range of activities to develop children's imagination and creativity, to provide a balanced framework for the harmonious development of people who can cope with the massive ammount of images that invade our daily lives. Contemporary art develops a new language - a hybrid language - which for now remains unknown to the majority of the public and it is not integrated into the Arts curriculum. General frame analysis reveals that Fine Arts are studied only up to the 10th grade, except for the humanity profile and for the vocational arts profile. School curricula stipulate fine arts study up to mid twentieth century. Openness towards contemporary art and the language of art starting with the second half of the twentieth century is quite limited even if the curriculum allows a certain flexibility in the approach.

2. The Openness of the Visual Art Curriculum towards a New Visual Art Language

Assistant Doctoral Candidate, “George Enescu” University of Arts from Iaşi of Romania

Review of Artistic Education

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Visual art curriculum should allow a wide range of activities to develop children's imagination and creativity, to provide a balanced framework for the...

2. The Openness of the Visual Art Curriculum towards a New Visual Art Language

Published Online: Apr 04, 2016

Page range: 175 - 182

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rae-2016-0021

Keywords
curriculum for visual arts, contemporary art, current syllabi, curriculum frameworks

© 2016 Ana-Maria Aprotosoaie-Iftimi, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

2. The Openness of the Visual Art Curriculum towards a New Visual Art Language

Published Online: Apr 04, 2016

Page range: 175 - 182

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rae-2016-0021

Keywordscurriculum for visual arts, contemporary art, current syllabi, curriculum frameworks

© 2016 Ana-Maria Aprotosoaie-Iftimi, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
curriculum for visual arts, contemporary art, current syllabi, curriculum frameworks