한국미술교육에 나타난 후기모더니즘적 성향과 정체성에 관한 비평적 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze how post-modernism, the mainstream trend of the world, influences Korean art education and figure out art university’s education in accordance with Korean art culture and the situation of art education critically. Unfortunately, so far, the Western tastes or phenomena have been often adopted uncritically, or the trends of art modernized in a wrong way have existed mixedly in Korean art university education under the name of nationalism or Korean styles. Active induction of advanced culture means not only to absorb the world’s trends promptly and realize cultural communion but also to combine and apply them more properly as more Korean-style art and art education. Instead of accepting the internationality of Western post-modernism as simple logic, it would be needed to understand the ground directly as well as aggressively and also filtrate and consider it retrospectively. This should be essential for our art and art education, too. It would be just cursory imitation or copying to accept what is Western just as it is with no verification. This is naturally against post-modern thinking and causes confusion in Korean art and education. Within the diverse changes and aspects of the West, we should absorb some common denominators. In other words, for Korean art education to present desirable conditions for art education, it is needed to grope for realistic gaps between Western patterns and our art concretely and then accept them. Only when Western post-modern art is improved appropriately for Korean art education, we can see the potentials of Korean art equipped with its own legitimacy. Above all, when it creates the lives of ours genuinely and when we participate in the history of global art actively with thorough understanding and affection for our history, we can revitalize our art and art university’s art education. The world today demands homogeneity in many ways. So far, we have maintained silence about the demand for homogeneity. Instead of being silent about the Western art trends literally, it is important for us to present desirable directions for our lives and discuss in order to find ways for Korea art and art education to proceed newly.