Higher art education has entered a period of "core literacy". Schools are paying more and more attention to the reform of basic art courses and the cultivation of students' core literacy. This requires schools to grasp the correct value orientation of art teaching based on the requirements of core literacy. Organic grafting of art teaching materials and cultivation of students' accomplishment, and implementation of rich and colorful innovative teaching. Pay attention to the internalization of students' knowledge and skills, and improve students' core quality of beauty essence. In addition, how to let students find unique traditional cultural symbols and establish national sense of belonging and self-value is an important issue in higher art education. Art education has been an extremely important teaching content of human society since ancient times, and it has a special status in national education. In modern society, injecting traditional culture into the art classroom is an effective way to inherit traditional culture. It helps to reshape the sense of national cultural identity, and has positive and important value and significance for innovative teaching models and methods, and to improve practice and innovation.