The importance of painting competitions organised on the national and international stage for the education of the art

ABSTRACT THE IMPORTANCE OF PAINTING COMPETITIONS ORGANISED ON THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL STAGE FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE ART ÖZBAŞ ERDEM, Hülya Graduate Thesis, Technical Art Training Discipline Thesis Adviser: Prof. Dr. Gülsün Parlar June 2007 The aim of my thesis called `The importance and the place of painting competition among children organized on the national and international stage? is to emphasize the importance of organized competitions on the education of the art ,to show positive and negative effects of these competitions and to make suggestions for the best organization of competition. The education of the art started to become widespread in the schools. It is more necessary in the primary school. In the years of primary school, there are positive effects of the social and creative activities like painting competition. Literature analyses were made study .Also, opinions of the art educator were taken and solutions was tried to find with the help of being obtained data. In the competitions organized between 1997-2007, the specifications were analyzed with the examples. The results found based on the finding are below; The competition specifications should be in the quality of explanatory and contain the necessary information because the deficiency in the specifications decreases the involvement and affects attaining the competitions objects and the process of checking. When the announcements are looked over, it is seen that selective committee was disregarded. Being noted the selective committees and giving opportunity to the experts increase the confidence to the competitions and the number of the participants. To be more effective in terms of social and cultural development ,there are some points demanding to be careful .The subjects in the competitions should be suitable for children age , encouraging to research and help the cultural and social development .The associations and institutions organizing the competition should vi always ask for advice, give necessary importance to the exhibitions and awards ,try to increase the positive effects of the competitions on the education of the art and bring in love to the painting. To sum up, in the primary school, education of the art is a supplementary and connective factor of the general education, so it was given more importance to the education of the art. Competitions should be organized well in order that painting competitions find a place in the art activities.