美术教育的主要任务是培养学生的绘画技巧,提高学生的审美能力,是推行素质教育的重要手段之一。过去小学美术课本中的知识以绘画技法和画种为主要内容,目前使用的美术课本侧重培养小学生对美术的应用能力和审美能力,其中对小学生想象力的培养尤其重要。想象力是学生学习画画和欣赏美术作品的前提,因此,在小学美术教学中教师应该将培养学生的想象力作为课堂内容之一。 The main task of art education is to cultivate students ’painting skills and improve students’ aesthetic ability, which is one of the important means to promote quality education. In the past, the knowledge of primary school art textbooks mainly focused on painting technique and painting style. At present, the art textbooks focused on cultivating pupils ’application ability and aesthetic ability to fine arts. Among them, the cultivation of pupils’ imagination was especially important. Imagination is a prerequisite for students to learn how to draw and appreciate art works. Therefore, in the art teaching of primary schools, teachers should make the students’ imagination as one of the classroom contents.