News Arguments for Aesthetic Education and the Educational Dimensions of the Art Museum

1. News arguments in aesthetic educationAny responsible educational project assumes a position in relation to every person's aesthetic and artistic formation. Arts education shows a particular way of seeing the human being, a unique philosophy of life, a vision of what is more precious in order to become a human being. The importance that art appreciation gets within the society gives the measure of value of that society, its sophistication and axiological altitude. Arts education leads to new horizons, for it develops the interrogative and reflexive spirit (Gombrich, 1973). On this occasion, the young man consciously enters art's domain, learning something about himself, and this learning will allow him to solve problems, ask questions and enroll in a reflexive culture of the self and of the surrounding world to which he belongs. Arts education becomes an education of the self in the perspective of integration in humanity (Levinson, 1998). The education for beauty engraves a deep meaning, integrative and above all the other things acquired in school. Artistic training offers students an experience for enlightening and building a path for one's existence.The education of the senses, of aesthetic taste, forming the attitudes and an aesthetic ideal does not have to be the attribute just of the artistic disciplines. It is more than that, reaching other domains. This is a concern of all disciplines, to the extent that they not only aim for the forming of the intellect, but also of sensibility as well (as knowledge will be passed, equally well, through artistic disciplines, becoming, through this, among others, a form of intellectual education). That is why, whenever necessary, the beauty of the area that the discipline takes into account will be targeted (living nature - biology, physical nature - geography, divine perfection - religion, the human behavior - psychology, the harmony of computations - mathematics etc.). If truth and good, for example, are targeted by a large number of disciplines, why could not the same thing happen to the beautiful? The value of a work of art is, at times, determined by its context, as a result of playing it on stage, of a representation, of a meaningful investment (Fivaz, 1989). The places where art is present become similar to the "temples" in which the appearance of divinity is officiated, the emergence of value and its embodiment in artifacts or materials with the agreement of witnesses, of those that receive and who trust that the birth of value is celebrated. Value is not given, but built (and re-built) whenever a receiving conscience wishes, projects it, invests in it, builds it.More than ever, new manifestations of social, cultural and technological praxis bring up new arguments for the foundation of educational efforts in this regard.We bring to your attention the following bases for a programmed aesthetic education, achieved through intentional teaching practices:1. Axiological basis. The socio-cultural environment in which the individual lives is full of many aesthetic stimuli that need to be integrated or signified by man through affective and intellectual complicity. These instances do not become values if no one takes them into account, if no one receives or enjoys them. However, relating to aesthetic stimuli assumes giving a review to the subjects that relate to these, an introduction to the "grammar of art", a prior exercise of aesthetic object "usage". Reporting on these phenomena and practicing aesthetic values become a prerequisite of founding aesthetic values themselves. If these values are not received and internalized, it is like they do not exist at all. The condition of their ontic presence is given by the condition of their axiological validation. Art becomes art only when someone is aesthetically enjoying it.2. Cultural basis. From the point of view of self-improvement, aesthetic values closure helps its enlightenment, shaping a polymorphic spiritual profile, open and multidimensional. …