Current curriculum emphasizes Korean traditional culture. However, the
research on appreciation of western masterpiece has been actively promoting
whereas the research on appreciation of folk paintings has been relatively isolated.
Folk paintings are through sentiment with children. Therefore, this study is to
investigate the effects of folk painting on the child through the integrated art
projects that consist of music, dancing, drawing and dramatic play after the
appreciation of folk painting.
The study was carried on twenty-five selected early children in a full day
class of age three to five of Kindergarten K in S city for eight weeks. The result
is as below. Firstly, it was able to compose integrate art program in different
areas through folk paintings. Secondly, the interests in the symbol’s meaning of
folk painting has been raised. And, excitement and passion for drawing folk
painting was shown from the project which is ‘I am the folk painter’ Particularly,
creative artistic expression remarkably appears. Thirdly, embellishing stories for
dramatic play took forms of short story, poem, and story. Fourthly, based on the
creative expressions of musical and artistic inspirations of the writers, it was
assumed that early children would be able to think of music which would match
the movement in the story. Fifthly, even the teachers who found integrate art
program difficult showed interest in creative ideas of early children, and started to
compose different integrate art activities. Above all, the children started to find
folk paintings interesting. They enjoyed folk painting puzzles and appreciation at
free play, using folk painting subjects at free drawing, and even their expression
in drawings was improved.