The purpose of this study is to know the influence of conversation-oriented appreciation education of art on students' self-esteem. To reach the goal of the study, <Appreciation of East and West genres oriented by conversation> class was developed based on theological researches. Genres of East and West about playing was appreciated by the learners conversing with the teachers. Based on this activity, lessons were planned with a goal that students will express their own playing by drawing. In the process of a conversation-oriented appreciation and expression course, lesson plan was designed to focus on effectuating interaction through conversations between the teacher and the student and among students. The results of this study are as follows. This study showed that the conversation-oriented appreciation education of art gives positive effect on improvement of the sense of self-esteem. First, overall sense of self-esteem of experimental group was improved after the test lesson. Second, all four sub-categories showed improvement in the sense of self-esteem after the test lesson. Third, after analysing the results, the sense of self-esteem of the experimental group was relatively higher than the control group. By the results of this study we can learn that the conversation-oriented appreciation education of art does give help in improving the sense of self-esteem. Therefore, there is a greater need for a deeper study on this method of education. It is wished that this learning method would be expanded among the students and to be researched for a long period.