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To the south of the Five Ridges and on the coast of the South China Sea, Guangdong is the southern gate of China. It has been communicating with the world through the sea since the Qin and Han dynasties. At the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty, Guangzhou became the main port of the Maritime Silk Road, the largest port in China in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the only foreign trade port in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It has a unique geographical location advantage and profound cultural and historical accumulation. Guangdong, which is the first to gain the ethos, to lead the new era, and to take the road of change, is the forerunner in the process of great changes in modern China.
Broad-mindedness, all-inclusiveness, and innovation and change are the important characteristics of Cantonese and Lingnan culture. Modern and contemporary art in Guangdong is inherited from the spirit of Lingnan culture. In 1887, Chinese oil painting pioneer Li Tiefu went abroad to study painting. In 1917, Zheng Jin, a native of Guangdong, was ordered to build China's first national art school-the National Beijing Art School. In 1921, the first art group that studied Western painting appeared in Guangdong-Chisha. In 1922, Guangzhou Municipal Art School was established, which was one of the earliest public art schools in China. In 1928, Lin Fengmian went to Hangzhou to prepare for the establishment of the National Academy of Art. In addition, many Cantonese artists such as Gao Jianfu, Feng Gangbai, Hu Gentian, Guan Liang, etc. are all respectable forerunners of modern Chinese art education.
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, as the only independent higher art institution in southern China and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, is tied to this cultural bloodline.
The predecessor of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts was the Central South Academy of Fine Arts. It was established in Wuhan, Hubei Province with the approval of the Ministry of Higher Education in 1953. At that time, it was formed by the merger of the Central South Academy of Arts and Sciences, South China People’s Academy of Literature and Art, Guangxi Provincial Academy of Arts and other related departments. In 1958, the Zhongnan Academy of Fine Arts moved from Wuhan to Guangzhou and was renamed Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. In 1981, he was awarded the first batch of master's degree grant rights in the country. In 1987, it began to recruit students from foreign countries and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. In 2005, it was approved as the first batch of national master of arts (MFA) training pilot units. In 2010, it was designated as a provincial doctoral program by Guangdong Province. unit.
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts adheres to the spirit of the school motto of "learning to be a man first, and then doing what you are doing" and the development concept of "face to the present, learn from the West, learn from the past, and respect teachers and education". After more than 60 years of development, it has formed a mastery of the times. Pulse, pay attention to social needs, focus on the cultivation of art and design innovation ability, supported by art theory and humanities education, multidisciplinary integration, industry-university-research linkage, and actively serve the social and economic development of the school. Stepping into the new era, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts relies on Guangdong’s advantages as a pioneer, pioneer and experimental area of reform and opening up. As the promotion of talent training, scientific research and creation, and better services for social development in the new era, we will accelerate forward by riding on the east wind of the "Belt and Road" initiative.
School scale In 2004, the school built a new campus in Guangzhou University Town. There are two campuses, Changgang and University Town, covering a total area of 564 acres and a total construction area of 411,884 square meters. The school has 8 colleges and 1 ideological and political theory teaching department. Undergraduate education has 31 majors and 55 majors, and 24 majors have been enrolled. As of the end of September 2017, the school has 5,303 undergraduates, 721 postgraduates, 16 international students, 1 general preparatory student, and 6,041 full-time students, which is equivalent to 7,140 students.
The subject professional school currently has 3 provincial-level key disciplines for peak climbing, including 2 first-level disciplines of "Fine Arts" and "Design" and 1 second-level discipline of "Arts and Crafts", and 3 provincial-level characteristic key disciplines, including "Arts" "Study Theory" is a first-level discipline and "Art Theory and Criticism" and "Film and Digital Media" are two second-level disciplines. In the fourth round of discipline assessment by the Ministry of Education in 2017, the school's two first-level disciplines, "Fine Arts" and "Design" were rated as B+, and "Art Theory" was rated as B-level, ranking first among similar disciplines in universities in Guangdong Province. , The country ranks in the forefront.
As of January 2018, among the school’s 24 undergraduate majors that have been enrolled, there are 1 national-level professional comprehensive reform pilot program major, 3 national-level characteristic majors, 8 provincial-level characteristic majors, 1 provincial-level key major, and provincial key majors. There are 6 pilot projects for comprehensive reform of majors at the provincial level, and 2 pilot programs for the training of applied talents at the provincial level. The total number of national and provincial high-quality majors is 14, accounting for 58.33% of the total number of enrolled majors.
Teachers The school has a strong teaching staff. Hu Yichuan, Guan Shanyue, Li Xiongcai, Wang Zhaomin, Gao Yongjian, Chi Ke, Chen Shaofeng, Pan He, Yang Zhiguang, Guo Shaogang, Chen Jinzhang, Liang Mingcheng, Yin Dingbang, Wang Shouzhi, Zhang Zhian, Liming, Zhao Jian, Fang Chuxiong, Guo Runwen, Li Jinkun, etc. Many masters in contemporary Chinese art history have been teaching in our school for a long time. The school currently has 67 professors and 156 associate professors. Among the faculty, there are a team of national colleges and universities Huang Danian-style teachers, national "Ten Thousand Talents Program" leading talents, "four batches" of talents from the Central Propaganda Department, experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, outstanding talents in the new century from the Ministry of Education, and subject review by the State Council Group members, members of the Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, director and deputy director of the Art Committee of the Chinese Artists Association, and directors of various Chinese art and design professional societies.
Talent training The school insists on taking talent training as its fundamental task, actively deepens the reform of education and teaching, and continuously improves the quality of education and teaching. In 2016, the school was awarded the "Third Batch of Guangdong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Demonstration Schools". In the past three evaluations of teaching achievement awards, he won 3 first prizes and 3 second prizes in Guangdong Province. Since 2010, our school’s students have achieved excellent results in various important events and activities, such as the Bronze Award in the 12th National Art Exhibition, the Excellence Award in the 4th National Youth Art Home Jinling Painting Exhibition (Oil Painting) Gold Award, Best Work Award of China's First Illustration Art Exhibition, Chinese Habitat Environment Design Academic Year Award, Asian Design Academic Year Award, CIDA China Interior Design Award (Academy Award), the internationally renowned German Red Dot Award, iF Design Award, Braun Design Award, American IDEA Award, SPAPK Award, China Innovative Design Red Star Award, Ministry of Education National College Student Industrial Design Competition, etc., won more than 100 various heavyweight art and design awards. In recent years, the initial employment rate of our school’s graduates has remained above 97%, and employers’ comprehensive evaluation satisfaction with our school’s graduates has reached 97.41%. The quality of school personnel training has been steadily improved.
Platform construction The school attaches great importance to the construction of a three-dimensional and diversified collaborative education platform. In recent years, a total of 31 platforms have been built at the national and provincial levels. Among them: 2 at the national level, namely the "National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center" and the National Advertising Industrial Park "Guangdong Modern Advertising Creative Center"; 8 provincial-level scientific research platforms, including: Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory "Guangdong Provincial Industrial Design Creativity" "Key Laboratory of and Applied Research", "China Modern Art Research Institute" and "Lingnan Art and Cultural Heritage Research Center", the key research base of humanities and social sciences in universities in Guangdong Province, and "Lingnan Art Heritage Collaborative Innovation", a provincial intangible cultural heritage research base "Research Center", Provincial R&D Center "Guangdong Creative Industry R&D Center", Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center "Pearl River Delta Brand Strategy Collaborative Innovation Center", Guangdong University International and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Cooperation Innovation Platform "Contemporary Urban Culture and Architectural Art Innovation “Research Center”, “Digital Imaging and Digital Industrial Engineering Research Center”, a key promotion platform for universities in Guangdong Province; “Lingnan Chinese Painting Experimental Teaching Center” and other 7 provincial-level teaching demonstration centers, and 1 Guangzhou Humanities and Social Sciences Key Research Base “Lingnan "Cultural Animation Creative Research Base" and 13 other school-level platforms. These industry-university-research cooperative education platforms covering various disciplines of art and design are playing an increasingly important role in regional cultural construction and modern industrial development.
In recent years, our school teachers have won the China Art Award‧Lifetime Achievement Award, China Art Award‧Creation Award, China Art Award‧Theoretical Criticism Award, the first prize of the National Sports Art Exhibition, the Ministry of Education’s Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Award, The first prize of Guangdong Philosophy and Social Sciences, the first prize of the Chinese Book Flanting Award, the China Art Festival Art Exhibition, the China Design Exhibition, the German Red Dot Award, etc., have won hundreds of scientific research and creation awards at or above the provincial level, including The art creation project of the history of Chinese civilization, the national science and technology project, the national art fund project, the national social science fund art project, the national education science planning project, the new century outstanding talent support project, the humanities and social science projects of the Ministry of Education, etc. High-level scientific research projects.
Social Service The school actively participates in and integrates into the regional economic and cultural construction. Shenzhen City Sculpture "Reclamation Bull", Zhuhai City Sculpture "Zhuhai Fisher Girl", Changsha Juzizhou "Young Mao Zedong Art Statue", Guangdong Provincial Government Gift Design for the return of Hong Kong and Macau, Guangdong Hall of the Great Hall of the People, Xinghai Concert Hall, Design projects of Guangdong Museum of Art, China Pavilion at Expo 2005 Japan, 2010 Shanghai World Expo theme pavilion "City and People", Shanxi Pavilion, etc., and 52 visuals including mascots, medals, core graphics and color systems for the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games The design, Guangzhou City LOGO design, etc., are all from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.
The foreign exchange school has established partnerships with 21 countries and regions including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Belgium, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, etc., as well as the Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan, the Repin Academy of Fine Arts, Russia, Forty-seven art academies such as the Royal College of Art in Antwerp, Belgium, the Zurich University of the Arts in Switzerland, the Rome Academy of Fine Arts in Italy, the Glasgow Academy of Fine Arts in the UK, the University of Toronto in Canada, and the Taipei University of the Arts have established exchanges and cooperation relations. The school selects outstanding teachers to carry out visiting studies, exchanges and academic research abroad, exchanges students with partner colleges and universities abroad, organizes various types of international workshops and lectures, and introduces high schools. Level art design exhibitions, high-level international academic seminars, and overseas well-known experts and scholars are invited to hold lectures and academic reports. The school vigorously develops the education of international students in China, orderly promotes cooperation with foreign high-level universities, actively expands the opening of higher education, and strives to improve the internationalization of schooling. Relying on the school's academic advantages, our school actively cooperates with the country to carry out cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, showcases our school's academic research results and outstanding creations of teachers and students on the international stage, tells Chinese stories and spreads Chinese voices.