美国发展心理学教授霍华德·加德纳在对多元智能理论的研究中发现,儿童的艺术能力发展并非像其他方面能力,随着年龄增长而变强,呈现线性增长趋势。相反,儿童艺术能力有时表现“U”型变化,即儿童的艺术能力发展会停滞不前,极少数人能够突破这一瓶颈。针对儿童能力发展的这一特性,如何走出高原期,值得我们进行反思。本文通过对艺术能力易逝性所产生的原因进行分析,结合艺术教育的常规培养理念,总结了自由发展与教育的艺术教育培养模式,期待在教育实践中发挥积极作用。 Howard Gardner, a professor of developmental psychology in the United States, found in the study of multiple intelligence theory that the development of children’s artistic ability is not like other capabilities, but increases with age and shows a linear growth trend. On the contrary, children’s artistic ability sometimes shows “U” type change, that is, the development of children’s artistic ability will stagnate and very few people can break through this bottleneck. For this feature of children’s ability development, how to get out of the plateau is worth our reflection. Based on the analysis of the causes of the perishability of art ability, this article summarizes the art education and training mode of free development and education in the light of the conventional training concept of art education and looks forward to playing an active role in educational practice.