Arte contemporânea: desafios e potencialidades para uma educação estética

Abstract

The art education in Brazil follows the restrict standard proposed by international models. Different educational proposals were discussed, however most of them were not suitable to Brazilian reality. For the last years, the art education in Brazil was seen like an activity and not as a discipline. Also, with the advent of contemporary art, the teaching became even more fragmented. How teach a kind of art which is not accurately defined? How approach these concepts in the classroom? These questions torment several educators that for many times do not know how to lead with these topics, therefore they excluded it from their classroom. According to how students can recognize contemporary art elements in their reality, this allows them creating a critical reasoning about society. Herein, this research aims to create strategies using contemporary art to power an aesthetic education. According to literary research and study of experiences, the authors look to understand the main challenges of contemporary art to occupy the education as an instrument to stimulate the creativity, sensibility, ludicity and the critical thinking. Therefore, we conclude what is necessary for an educator to use contemporary art to work as important topics in our society; besides, art is also not a mere doing, and throughout specifical methodologies then students are be able to analyse and do art.