Physical Education between the Necessary and the Compulsory in Artistic Academic Education

The aim of the present paper is to establish the status of the discipline of Physical Education in the artistic academic education curriculum by proposing a solution that may also apply to other academic profiles. In the current system of academic education, the number of hours assigned for practical courses in Physical Education has decreased significantly. Having this in mind, as well as the students’ lack of time that is usually blamed on, as they are caught in several daily activities involving modern technologies tending to “pin” them down for hours, we ask ourselves the following question: should the discipline of Physical Education be mandatory or optional in the artistic academic education curriculum? We must mention that an artist adopts a certain posture during the creative act, which (s)he maintains for several hours a day and which consequently leads to posture deficiencies and, implicitly, decreases the value of their artistic creation.