Борис Денев и „Рисуването в основните училища“
Boris Denev and „The Drawing Lessons in Primary Schools“

Summary/Abstract: After the Liberation, education in Bulgaria became the work of the Ministry of Education, which at that time determined the cultural and educational policy of the society. At the beginning of the twentieth century the different education of teachers in Bulgaria, the lack of experience and traditions in the teaching of drawing, lead to the use of almost all methods known from the geometric copying system and the experience of foreign countries such as drawing on a grid, drawing on stigmographed sheets, drawing on templates”, drawing on patterns, drawing on dictation, in tact and others. In this method, at the process of learning the student is required to accurately reproduce a certain image (decorative composition, abstract geometric shapes or real objects). The means and ways of copying are determined by the gradual development of the methodology, by the emergence of new pedagogical views and requirements to the learning process. Some of the most zealous opponents of the geometric-copying system in our country are Otto Horeyshi, Dimitar Daskalov, Dobri Hristov, Stoyan Chakarov, Konstantin Svrakov, teachers Georgi Palashev, Ivan Strelukhov, Boris Denev, Atanas Chesmedjiev, Petar Angelov and many others. United in their opposition of outdated and stereotyped teaching methods, however, their views differ on the future of art education and the drawing as a subject of teaching. At the beginning of the century Boris Denev became popular with his reformist ideas related to the creative nature of art education. Based on his experience as a primary school teacher, he was the first in Bulgaria who bring out aesthetic education as the main goal of art teaching.

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