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INTRODUCTION
Art is a beauty. It is unavoidable that art is always present in the form of beauty.
Art is created for various reasons or reasons according to the human condition that makes
it, but a work that is considered to have artistic value usually also contains an aesthetic
element. Standards for aesthetic or aesthetic elements have a relative nature, depending
on the culture and way of life of humans in a particular area (Gobster, Nassauer, Daniel,
& Fry, 2007). This means that standards for beauty can differ from one community to
another (Tang et al., 2012).
The results or processes of human work and ideas that involve skilled, creative
abilities, sensory sensitivity, heart sensitivity and thought to produce a work that has a
beautiful, harmonious, artistic value and others are usually called art (Rahman, 2019). In
the creation or arrangement of a work of art carried out by artists, creative skills are
needed specifically according to the type of artwork they make (Burton, Horowitz, &
Abeles, 1999)(Weisberg, 2006)(Niu & Sternberg, 2001). Studying art is an understanding
of aesthetics (beauty) and the re-disclosure of aesthetics in a work of art. Understanding
aesthetics is an event of entering aesthetics through the sense of taste and thought to
objectify.
Art is fundamental in early childhood education (Prince, 2008). This does not
mean to exclude other subject areas. However, it seems that there is no program for
children that can succeed without emphasizing the arts. After all, art always makes
children feel happy and happy. Why are children always happy? The fact is that art
materials stimulate children's creativity in different ways, as Dewey said in (Grube,
Delvendahl, Seefeld, & Volta, 2012) that they make children think. Perhaps that is the
reason why children love art.
Art education is essentially a process of human formation through art (Eisner,
1987; Gardner, 1990). Education in general serves to develop the ability of every child to
find fulfillment in life, to transmit cultural heritage, to expand social awareness and as a
way to increase knowledge. In this case, the goal of art education is actually in line with
the broad responsibilities of educational goals in general.
Art education as a form to shape the attitude and personality of children who
have mental functions which include fantasy, sensitivity, creativity and expression. A
child can fantasize about his work, through the feeling of the child pouring his ideas into
the work, making the child sensitive, making the child have good creativity, and
expressing the work of art.
Art education is concerned with the beauty of one's creations (Eisner, 2008;
Macdonald, 2004). Through experience, children can pour their ideas into works of art.
Art education can make the right brain and left brain develop properly.
The development of children's creativity from an early age is very necessary and
the role of educators is very important. Efforts to increase creativity can be done by
educators. These various efforts refer to the nature of creativity, the role of educators in
developing creativity, and efforts to increase children's creativity.
At the beginning of 2020 Indonesia experienced the Covid 19 pandemic, this
pandemic was not only felt in Indonesia but throughout the world. This pandemic is
something that must be faced together. Community life activities are limited, starting
from sports, offices, tourism, and education is no exception. Education, which is very
close to interacting with each other, involving many educators and students in the