In teaching Fine Arts there is a lack of flexibility in designing the teaching schedule. Fine art instruction can take place in different forms, one hour per week or block lessons every fortnight. Due to the organization of the learning process, there are differences in students' artistic visual memory. Since the art tasks are of limited duration the design ideas of pupils are interrupted. With the following art tasks teachers need additional time to determine which visual content is preserved in the pupils' memory and which needs to be restored. Teacher needs more time than expected, consequently the student has less time to create and manufacture the art product, less time for artistic immersion and complete experience of the creative process. In block lessons pupils' would be more motivated to design ideas and immerse themselves in art activities. Differences in students' performance in resolving art tasks in block lessons as well as in two separate art lessons were verified. Research results showed that teaching and learning of Fine Arts in block lessons were of better quality than an individual lesson per week. The target population of students were the seventh and the ninth grade of primary school.
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