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DISCOVERING BEAUTY, RECOGNIZING HUMAN. A GLANCE AT WAYS, TOOLS, AND AIMS FOR TEACHING ART
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Does teaching art and its history to the new generations still make sense today, and how? Whether it’s figurative arts or crafts, what humanity has produced throughout its history is one of the things that most fascinate scholars: in the end, as it’s for philosophy about the development of thought, studying art is a way of looking for the reasons for human specificity. The beauty search could be intended as one of the most evident aspects of it: times, modes, and tools have changed through the decades, but what has not changed are the intrinsic demands that push mankind to pursue it and create horizons of meaning through art. Nowadays, digital technologies can help us not only in teaching or studying art but even more simply in the fruition of artworks not accessible to everyone, and it is something amazing for the opportunity that it represents. Unfortunately, often the limit of these tools is to stop at the surface of things, providing partial information concerning the iconographic and formal description, rather than guiding the user to a deeper comprehension of the reasons from which the artworks came. The question, then, is how teachers above all, but also other operators of the art world could better address the use of digital, to emphasize the actuality of the need to make art and express one’s own creativity, helping them to feel renowned artists of the past and the presents not such as deities, but close to us, according to our sensitivity.
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