Relation between Art Education and Democracy from Antique Greece to the Present Day

Abstract

Education is a set of activities that are done in order to ensure the development of knowledge, skills and abilities in human behaviours. Art emphasizes the connection between emotion and thought. Also it has an effective role in the process and development of learning. But art education is a specific process of aesthetic changes in individuals’ behaviours through their own experience.

It is known that art and art education are based on very old times such as the humanity history and the reality of it’s been continuously argued from Platon up to date.

Democracy which is the other concept of this research is a form of an administration whereas the art is a form of existence. While the artist exists by creating, the democracy tries to exist by will.

When it’s looked from the art, certainly, the art does not have the power that brings the freedom and the truth on its own, however without art; this power cannot take a form, because the democracy cannot look at the human’s pains and beauties as sensitive as the art.

Aim of this research is to discuss the relation of art education and democracy as a form of implementation and functionality from antique Greece to the present day.  The method of the study is descriptive and references in literature are interpreted.

Keywords: Education, Art, Art Education, Democracy