Basic art education and new approaches

?Knowing is not enough, should apply, request is not sufficient, action is necessary to.? J.W.GoetheWe shall touch on the concept of basic art or modern thinking before we start explaining what the basic art education means to us.The word ?contemporary? by dictionary definition means anyone who lives in the same age and even in the same period of time as the others, however we all know that a definiton includes much more than whan an absolute word means and it is assigned a great number of meanings in the course of time. The concept of modernity bears a meaning beyond its dictionary definition. Therefore what does modernity mean to us? What is the age?When we talk about the age we think of severel stages in the history of humanity. Looking back at the history, we see that the effectiveness of mankind consists of unadvanced and advanced stages. Mankind has constantly built up its enviroment through new discoveries in its battle of life and created its own culture according to the conditions in which they were and in this development process have very different cultures been created. History shows us that no matter how different they are from each other, all of them have gone through the same stages, some later and some sooner. We can say that this multi-staged develepment is the carrier of various cultures that we observe in history.We use some phrases such as tecnical age, computer, industry age and etc for our age, therefore what values can we call basic values in today?s world and consider as generally-accepted? We can simply answer it is the value given to basic art education.Human freedom is a generally-accepted value of our age and the faith in human creativity and constructiveness is the generally-accepted value of our age. After these explanations, we may ask what the contemporary thought is. Contemporary thought is the free thought, a way of thinking which is unconditional and free from dogmas. Contemporary thought examines and criticizes any subject on the basis of object plane and tries to reveal the truth, considering it from different angles. For this reason modern thinking is also called critical thinking in basic art education.