From the Hundred-Grass Garden to the Three-Flavor "Art School"

In the information age, teaching models and institutions like ancient private schools are gradually diminishing, but we can still draw essence from the traditional private school model, such as rigorous teaching and mentorship relationships. "Hundred-Grass Garden" represents a paradise for children to play; "Three-Flavor Study" represents a rigorous teaching model, while "Art School" integrates "professional teaching" and "edutainment" into one, putting it into action as an art education center.

From the Hundred-Grass Garden to the Three-Flavor "Art School"
Type | Exhibition


It is not enough for a poem to merely possess beauty; it must also have charm.
"Private schools" were important institutions of education in ancient society, but they gradually disappeared after the establishment of New China. The Three-Flavor Study depicted by Mr. Lu Xun was "known as the strictest private school in the whole city," yet Mr. Lu Xun did not portray it as lifeless. Through small stories such as students sneaking off to the Hundred-Grass Garden during breaks, he showed the irrepressible, joyful nature of children. "Hundred-Grass Garden" represents a paradise for children to play; "Three-Flavor Study" represents a rigorous teaching model, while "Art School" integrates the essence of both, continuously practicing "edutainment."
The function of "teaching" in poetry and works of art should not be divorced from the concrete imagery that brings people pleasure, especially in the teaching of children, which should be cultivated through aesthetic experience and aesthetic feeling. The universal truth, goodness, and beauty contained in art must be transformed through distinct individualization into forms directly accessible to individual sensibility. These works of art are the fusion and unity of formal beauty and content beauty.
This art exhibition unfolds through the three flavors: "Savoring Food," "Savoring Nature," and "Savoring Life," showcasing the children's perception of life and "beauty" in an "edutainment" learning environment, vividly brought to life on paper through their paintbrushes.
—— Reshaping Design RIDS

Release:
2020
Task:
Exhibition
Curator:
Tang Yifei / togihi