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EduArt: Encouraging Creativity

Publication |
2010

Abstract

This article discusses the essentials of educational EduArt project, supported by Czech Ministry of Education and European Social Fund. In this project was developed a pilot methodology of encouraging creativity through deepening of imagination implemented in the elementary schools.

Project EduArt applies semantic analyze of modernistic painting in form of graphical methods application and educational software application. The concept of EduArt project is established in expressiveness of the pictorial elements, pictorial objects and pictorial clusters interrelations and its semantization based on personal experience and knowledge of the pupil.

The educational software EduArt Editor enables pupils to examine interrelations between particular pictorial elements, objects and clusters gradually, in variations and not to understand construction of painting as un bloc. Gradually increasing structure of pictorial elements, objects and clusters, both static and dynamic, allows understanding principles of visual media.

Generally, structural construction of the image in EduArt project motivates the pupil's imagination and creative capabilities.