Exploring Experience Activity Potential for Art Therapy to High School Students in International School, Guangzhou, China

Abstract

Although the development of various technological products increases people’s methods to approach diverse art forms, they also bring many distractions and addictions to recent people, especially to those young people who don’t have much self-control ability. Those attractions causes students prefer to spend all weekend in virtual world, rather than participate in art exhibitions and museums, leading to lack of art appreciation ability and self-perception. This a worldwide issue, but few people have conducted such discussions both in theory and in practice. Therefore, a survey which aims to reveal the recent high school students real situation on artistic influence and a subsequent activity which hopes to improve those students’ most serve problem revealed by the previous survey are prepared to conduct in an emerging group of Chinese high school students: international school students. Then those students who received further treatment on art will be retested on their art appreciation ability. The result will not only give a direction for more high school in China to improve their artistic influence education, but also highlight and reveal that serve issue to more people and schools. The survey by questionnaires reveals that high school students in Guangdong Country Garden international school lack artistic influence extremely. They completely don’t have habit of paying attention to opera performance and visit the art exhibitions only a few times a year. This kind of usual practices leads to deficiency on cognitive power, perception ability and kinesthetic capability. In the survey, most students could describe their feelings to some concrete art works, but they could not describe their feelings on a film or an abstract painting successfully, which means they cannot perceive their own subtle emotional changes. Therefore, those students most severe problem is on their perception capability.