Art is the basis in the system of aesthetic education of the child. Even Hegel and Plato spoke of him as the main content of aesthetics. By introducing a child to the richest human experience gathered in art, one can educate an educated, moral, and diversified person.
The child comprehends any kind of art from perception. Scientists distinguish three stages of perception: primary, when the child perceives what interests him, having missed the uninteresting and incomprehensible. The second stage is characterized by the fact that the teacher provides the opportunity for creative reproduction of art or its parts in their own activities. And the third stage can be arbitrarily designated as the stage of scientific comprehension of artistic activity, when the picture of life in all its contradictoriness, complexity is recreated in the consciousness of a little man, and the need arises to analyze it. A child’s encounter with various art phenomena does not immediately make him spiritually rich or aesthetically developed person. But this experience is remembered for a long time, and the little man always wants to feel again the familiar emotions received from meeting with the beautiful. There are several types of art: music, literature, cinema, theater, fine and decorative art, architecture, choreography, etc. The peculiarity of each type is in that he especially affects the child with his specific materials and artistic means: sound, word, movement, colors. Music affects the musical sense of the child. The sculpture is turned to other sides of the human soul: it is able to convey the plastic expressiveness of the body, delight the eye with beautiful forms of fine lines. Each type of art is addressed to any human person and suggests that any child is able to comprehend all its types. The pedagogical meaning of this is that education cannot be limited to just one genre of art. Only their combination will ensure the normal aesthetic development of the child.
