Significance of visual perception in education of art history

Education of art history is that, one of the most important factors provides to sustain and increase to level of cultural awareness and aesthetic of communities. Besides being in departments of art history, it support and nourish to some departments of arts as a theoretical and complementary course. Art history as a discipline, the adoption to the present day, had developed a serious academic sense. In this process, education of art history has been studied to give in many ways to be more efficient teaching and to provide permanent learning. Academicians of art history, has endeavored to go beyond classical education with techniques such as the experimental approach and on-site observation of the works of art and architecture. In this study, it firstly focused on the changing and developing methods in education of art history from beginning to present and then the significance of visual perception was discussed with an applied teaching method to consolidate the theoretical knowledge in this education. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Prof. Ayse Cakir Ilhan