This study attempts to search for the way to expand the contents and
methods of traditional art education by teaching Shadow Play based on oriental
aesthetics. The historical literature manifests that the screen in Shadow Play
creates the space filled with light and at the same time empty with nothing. Thus,
it is a conceptual space in which symbolic objects can appear, act, and disappear.
These artistic elements embody the oriental aesthetics that values emptiness,
spirituality, and transparency in traditional art. In order to extend this historical
and aesthetic investigation, this study presents the concrete way to utilize tradition
Shadow Play in art education. The process of making the screen and objects for
Shadow Play is elaborated so as to visualize how Shadow Play can be taught as
means of teaching the value and meanings of traditional art. As conclusion, the art
educational implication of Shadow Play is discussed in two aspects. First, Shadow
Play can be a significant method in art education because it connects life with art,
tradition with contemporary, and the oriental with the western. Second, by utilizing
Shadow Play, art teachers can make traditional art more familiar and interesting to
students who may feel tradition as remote and eccentric.