ARTISTIC EXPRESSION AND CULTURAL AWARENESS — THE PATH TO A QUALITY EDUCATION

Aesthetic education requires a methodical approach to integrating the individual into a system of influence both formal, educational, through specific artistic and extra-curricular/non-formal disciplines, by making use of special opportunities that are studied outside school, but which, independently or in correlation with it, make the human being aware of beauty, enhance artistic feelings, form and consolidate the authentic aesthetic taste. Art education denotes a certain way of seeing the human, a special philosophy of life, a vision of what is most precious for becoming a human being. The importance of art appreciation in society gives the value measure of that society, its refinement, and axiological altitude. Art education is opening new horizons because it develops the questioning and reflective spirit. Art and beauty are such cultural privileges that do not arise by themselves, but are conquered by continuous initiation, training and experimentation of the relations with them.