The case of applying contemporary art approaches in lessons by visual art teachers (A sample of Tokat province)

The aim of this work is that analysing how teacher of visual arts adopt modern arts in their education programs. Today's art is a reflection of the postmodern art. The situation of the postmodernism involves much terms in it. The postmodern terms (parady, pastiche, seisin, double coding, metaphor, irony, dehumanisation, pluralizm, deconstruction, hybridisation, eclecticism, metonymy) which effect the modern arts defined in the first part of this study. Second part of this study includes the art of modernism, postmodern art, living art and education of visual arts and analysing how these terms effect the modern arts. According to the third part of the study, under chapter method. We can find the model of the study, universe and its examples, measuring instuments, process of getting datas. The fourth part of the study contains the achievments of evidences which base on datas, in the fifth part of study we can find discussions about the study and in the last part of the study include the results of the study and advices for readers. This study is a qualitative research which includes depictive character. This study has a team, 24 visual arts teachers from 11 different official secondary school in center of province of Tokat. A half-confirugated interviem form contains 14 questions has been used in the study. Datas getting from interviews which have been made with teachers, are depictive analyses. Considering of these study, the education about visual arts in secondary school in our country doesn't contain approaching visual arts decently.