Art education in Chinese primary and secondary schools: Meeting the challenge of Visual Culture

Abstract

In China today, various images that feature in research into visual culture such as cartoons, TV, films, network games and advertisements are exerting a multifaceted influence on teenagers. Art education in primary and secondary schools is meeting new challenges therefore arising from conflicts between classical art and popular visual images, foreign culture and local culture, and between traditional art education and visual culture art education. As a result, active measures are being taken in primary and secondary art education to meet the challenges of visual culture.