Art is a tool which provide human beings self-realization, thoughts, dreams, individual feelings and creative efforts; It is an important cultural dynamic with its integrative aspect in integrating societies.
Purposes
Art education at Irmak Primary School gives students the opportunity to live contemporary life and think freely. It enables to raise people to understand, criticize and respect each other for the society. It plays a crucial role in the importance of understanding cultures, protecting our own culture, keeping it alive and transferring it to future generations.
Chapter Goals
Visual Arts course at Irmak Primary School has been prepared by considering the different perceptions, knowledge and intuitions of the students through two- and three-dimensional studies, individual differences, and developmental stages in their own perception and interpretation.
In our school, which aims to raise the intellectual generations of the future;
• Providing the student with the love of visual arts and the ability to make it a behavior,
• Able to benefit from aesthetic values in self-expression,
• Gaining the will and courage to seek new techniques other than the used ones,
• It is aimed to train students who gain the ability and confidence to produce solutions to the problems that will occur.
Tours
While art education programs are being prepared in our school, art activities that support our lessons are included. The most important part of these activities is art trips. During the trips organized to art museums, Istanbul Biennial, art galleries and art workshops, our students are provided with the opportunity to get to know the works of art closely, to experience the authenticity of these works and to experience the visual perception from first hand.
We are open-minded and thoughtful of our own culture and other cultures by participating in the activities of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, which is held in Istanbul similar to the festivals held in many cities of Europe and including various branches of art. We explore the world of art during our visits to the Graphic Arts Museum, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Pera, and the Istanbul Museum of Modern Arts, and get to know the artists from the past by seeing their works within the concepts of exhibitions.
We promote art, artists and our art culture on trips to surrounding art galleries, and enable students to learn these concepts by experiencing them on site.
Workshops
At the same time, our school organizes activities with our students from all age groups, increasing artistic awareness and bringing different perspectives.
Projects- Competitions
There are competitions and projects that support and develop the Visual Arts Lesson and bring our students together with different activities. At the same time, our school organizes activities with our students from all age groups, rasing the consciousness of art.