Art Synaesthesia Course in Beijing
Middle School
Edited by Andi XIONG
Introduction: CCTV News network team were at Beijing No.24 Middle
School on May 31st 2017 for the program “visiting the school closed
to your home”, where new courses were introduced with excellent examples in
education. Vice director of Education Committee Ms. YOU Na, President of No. 24
Middle School Mr. Niu Xiao Hua entered Art Synaesthesia Classroom with CCTV
Journalist. This project has been developed jointly by teacher Ms. JIANG Xin,
LIU Liyun, XU Qing and ZHANG Na with Mr. Ninghui XIONG, the father of one
student. What demonstrated here were the artworks of the students inspired and
created after recent activity for “travel learning” by school, including poetry,
painting and music combination in a culture tradition way in China, where
synaesthesia concept had been introduced.
Following the theory and supported by Ninghui, the project
team created a new way of education from single discipline category mode to
interdisciplinary mode to combine literature, art and music together. For those
students after training, their performance in “activity of travel learning to
the south cities”, has demonstrated excellent result in creative sense, smart
learning and good memory as an achievement shown here during CCTV interview
program.
Visual interpretations of Maurice Ravel's Bolero
by Ninghio Xiong (left) and Timothy Layden (right).
