Why do we learn about art?

Students reply with variety of answers in response to this question. The answer 'to draw well' is the most dominant. However, I feel quite often that there are a lot of students that don’t know what it actually means to draw well.

The ultimate purpose of learning to draw is to make and to express one’s own thought and feeling in a desired form through technical education. Fundamentally, students do first learn about the form but through the process, they develop their own thought and feeling and also develop a sense of their own form of art to connect with their thoughts and feelings. Through this process, the curriculum that develops a full basic understanding and discernment of form becomes an essential element. However, many students forget this fact and rely on skill instructions of similar format. This habitual behavior of learning results in one stylized form that can only be interdependent.

Students that learn art must develop the ability and the sense that is developed inside them and not what is a simple answer. Art education that is provided to achieve this should not be a 'solution' but a 'drawing' out of what is inside the student. It is a difficult process and will take time than just simply giving the answer, but it is a process that cannot be given up.

This is also the philosophy of the education of Soho Art.

Soho Art Studio Director, Yousun Kim