Internet Propelling Art Education

A lot has already been said about the advancement of internet in the art campus. Today, even the art galleries are virtually maintained. So much has been the dominance of intent over art connoisseurs, practitioners and teachers that art education has also been targeted over internet today. Now, this may be a fresh development but has certainly got the potential to go a long way. Internet has become an integral part of the art curriculum. Earlier, there were many cynics and teachers were largely apprehensive in allowing technology an entry in the art domain but it is not the same today. Teachers have well analyzed the boost that internet can provide for the immediate transmission of art and they are doing their best to help it in the way.

Let's take this instance. Students are asked to create a visual art form. Now, this collaborated visual art form is pasted with a short story and this is mounted on the internet. From here, the tableaux passes through the globe where it is being interpreted, added on, and altered through various sets of artistic perspectives pertaining to different parts of the world. Hence the final outcome is radical and has the seeds of freshness. Fusion of different cultures is being made possible by internet today.

It is possible for a Kenyan student to discus his work with an Australian counterpart and look for sequential creation through interpersonal exchanges over audio and video conferencing tools and web chat modules. This was not the case earlier. Art pieces remained restricted to its maker and at best his near colleagues. It begged for furtherance. It begged for ideas from fresh cultures and geographical landscapes. Today, this fusion is not only made possible but through global exchange it is also implemented immediately. Schools all over the globe work for such student artwork exchange programs.

Art exchange programs over global platform are incorporated in the curriculum because teachers have realized how internet can allow easier assimilation of ideas and art over a global domain. Electronic postcards are being prepared through software programs and these are then utilized for transferring to other students around the globe. Internet, like it has done for other aspects, has also made art more accessible. The Talking Hands Project is considered state-of-art. It involves different set of students making a portrait of an old man and then providing him a memory sheet. Compared over different global strata, this provides for great exchange of history, social framework and social beliefs.

Students are asked to work in collaboration for analyzing a particular art movement. This creates more knowledge, more profundity and admiration towards art forms. To trace its roots, they have to come to points where understanding of the art form becomes easier. Its intricacy and realization gives the student an eye with which respecting that art form becomes easier. Soiled in the history of that art movement, the students gather new perspective towards art. All this is made possible only because internet has made it accessible.