《美术新课程标准》里明确指出了美术的审美性质。在当前推行素质教育的背景下,审美教育显得尤为重要,美术作为美育的主要学科,肩负了培养人文素养和审美能力的重要责任。但是在目前的高中美术课堂中对于培养学生的审美能力还是比较欠缺的,美术教学对于文化关注得比较少,忽略了对学生的人文素质的培养,导致了学生的审美能力无法得到提高和发展。美术在原始社会就已存在,我们从一些出土的文物就可以发现当今很多审美观都是从远古时代就流传下来。所以,美术是人类社会精 “Art New Curriculum Standards” clearly pointed out the aesthetic nature of art. Under the current background of promoting quality education, aesthetic education is particularly important. As a major subject in aesthetic education, fine arts has the important responsibility of cultivating humanistic accomplishments and aesthetic abilities. However, in the current high school art classrooms, there is still a lack of aesthetic ability to cultivate students. Art education has paid little attention to culture and neglected the cultivation of students ’humanistic qualities, resulting in that the students’ aesthetic ability can not be improved and developed. Art in primitive society already exists, we can find some unearthed cultural relics many aesthetic concepts are handed down from ancient times. Therefore, art is the essence of human society