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Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts

Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts was founded in 1949. Its predecessor was the second branch of Northwest People’s Art Institute. In July 1949, it moved from Linfen, Shanxi to Xingguo Temple, Chang’an County, Xi’an. It was renamed the Art College of Northwest Military and Political University. The Northwest Academy of Fine Arts and other stages were officially named Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts in May 1960. In 1994, the college moved to the southern section of Hanguang Road, Yanta District, Xi'an.


Since its establishment, Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts has recruited talented people, gathered famous teachers, based on the outstanding Yan’an spirit and heavy historical and cultural traditions, formed a unique artistic education concept, and cultivated a large number of outstanding artistic talents for the construction and development of the country. He has created many works with far-reaching influence in the history of Chinese contemporary art, made important contributions to the prosperity of socialist art, and produced a good social reputation and influence.


Since the reform and opening up, Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts has taken education as the foundation, teaching as the center, teachers as the main body, quality as its life, and the responsibility of prospering culture. The school motto of "Leveraging the ancient and the modern", give full play to the geographical advantages, highlight the western characteristics, take the lead in incorporating calligraphy and folk art into the classroom teaching, long-term adhere to and attach importance to the history and culture of Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang, Yan'an revolutionary literature and art, northwest folk art, contemporary Chang'an painting school and The "Four Traditions" of the Loess Painting School and the teaching of the "Four Basics" of painting, calligraphy, art history, and Chinese folk art have gradually formed an art education system with a solid foundation, a reasonable structure and distinctive characteristics.


   currently has three campuses: the main campus, the Lintong campus, and the Chang'an new campus that is under construction. The total area is about 1,213,139.76 square meters (including 154,285.50 square meters in the main campus, 46,849.20 square meters in Lintong campus, and 1012005.06 square meters in land acquisition for the new campus in Chang’an). The college currently has 27 undergraduate majors, including Chinese Painting Department, Oil Painting Department, Printmaking Department, Sculpture Department, Public Art Department, Design Department, Architecture Environment Art Department, Clothing Department, Experimental Art Department, Art History Theory Department, Film and Television Animation Department, There are 15 undergraduate teaching departments (departments) in the College of Art Education, Basic Department, Plastic Arts Department, and Special Education Art College, and there are 50 professional work (teaching and research) rooms under it. The college also has teaching institutions such as the School of Continuing Education, the affiliated Secondary Academy of Fine Arts, the Shaanxi Primary School Teacher Training Center, and the Institute of Fine Arts, the Institute of Loess Painting School, the Research Center of Representational Painting Art, the Institute of Primitive Culture, Chinese Art and Archaeology Research Institute, Higher Education Research Center, Western China Oil Painting Art Research Center of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, Western Painting Style (Chang'an Painting School, Loess Painting School) Research Collaborative Innovation Center, Information Art and Product Modeling Design Collaborative Innovation Center, Cultural and Creative Teaching Center, There are 13 research institutes including the Contemporary Art Education Research Center, the Silk Road Art Research Center, and the Liu Wenxi Art Research Center of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts. The college has a library, Western Art Museum, Art Museum and other institutions. The college now has the right to grant doctorate degrees in three first-level disciplines of art theory, fine arts, and design, as well as the right to grant a master's degree in first-level disciplines, as well as the training qualifications for masters of arts (MFA), and university teachers in-service studying for master's degrees. The right to apply for a master’s degree with equivalent academic qualifications is the first batch of master’s degree authorized units (1981) and the ninth batch of doctoral degree authorized units (2003) approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. In 2007, the college was awarded "Excellent" in the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level by the Ministry of Education. In 2011, the college was included in the list of eleven high-level and distinctive universities in Shaanxi Province. In 2014, the college was awarded a post-doctoral research mobile station for fine arts.


In recent years, the college has adhered to connotative development and paid attention to improving the quality of education and teaching. After unremitting efforts, in the quality project construction of the Ministry of Education, it has won more than 300 national and provincial and ministerial awards: the college has won 2 second-class national teaching achievements. , 1 national-level teaching team, with 2 national-level teaching teachers, 15 provincial-level teaching teachers, of which Liu Wenxi won the first national “100 Famous Teachers Award”, and Yang Xiaoyang won the third national “Teaching Teachers Award”. The college has 3 national-level quality courses, 5 national-level characteristic majors, as well as 2 national-level talent training model innovation experimental areas, national-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, national-level teaching and research bases, and national-level demonstration education bases (nationwide Red Classic Art Education Demonstration Base), National Off-campus Practice Education Base for College Students, Northwest Animation Education Base of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television, etc.


As of 2016, the college has undertaken 77 national, Ministry of Education and other research topics, compiled 12 "Tenth Five-Year", "Eleventh Five-Year" and "Twelfth Five-Year" planning textbooks, and 16 national and provincial excellent textbooks ; Won 3 National Social Science Funds, 39 National Art Funds; 186 national awards. He has won 2 Outstanding Achievement Awards in Humanities and Social Sciences from the Ministry of Education, 11 Outstanding Achievement Awards in Humanities and Social Sciences in Shaanxi Province, and 3 Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences in Shaanxi Province. Our school has published 219 academic books and more than 2,844 papers, which fully reflects the important achievements that the school has made in the scientific research and development of the national art professional field in recent years.


As of March 2017, the college has 7013 full-time students, including 6,105 full-time undergraduates, 22 general college students, 66 full-time doctoral students, 473 full-time master students, 5 international students, and 306 full-time adult students. There are 36 advanced students, which is equivalent to 7,325.5 students in accordance with the relevant proportion of the Ministry of Education.


The college currently has 744 faculty members, including nearly 506 full-time teachers, 59 professors, 164 associate professors, 14 people enjoying special government allowances, 7 people awarded the title of “Outstanding Contribution Experts”, 1 outstanding returnee, and national “three There are 4 talents in the five-year plan, 1 top talent in key fields in Shaanxi Province, 1 in the "San Qin Talent" allowance, 2 young science and technology stars in Shaanxi Province, and 1 talent in the ninth batch of "six batches" in the cultural system. The college has also hired many famous scholars and experts at home and abroad as visiting professors or part-time professors.


In an important period for the construction and development of the college, the party committee of the college gave full play to its leadership core role, adhered to the principal responsibility system under the leadership of the party committee, adhered to the party and the country’s educational policy, adhered to the “two-oriented” and “double-hundred policy”, and attached great importance to Continuously strengthen the construction of grass-roots party organizations, adhere to the guidance of the theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and promote the scientific development of the college. Facing modernization, facing the world, and facing the future. Based on the school-running philosophy of "tradition as the foundation, contemporary for use, strengthening connotation, and characteristic development", the "Articles of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts" approved and promulgated by the academy in July 2015 establishes "cultivation of profound humanistic qualities, innovative abilities, and international vision." The goal of training high-quality artistic talents. At the 8th Party Congress in July 2016, the development goals of high-level, distinctive, "internationally renowned and domestically first-class" were clarified.


  The college focuses on undergraduate teaching and adheres to the core position of undergraduate teaching. Adhere to the establishment of a school by quality, implement comprehensive quality management, and establish a "three-level" system of teaching quality monitoring through the implementation of the "Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts Teaching Quality Monitoring System and Implementation Measures" to ensure and improve the college's education and teaching quality. It has successively promulgated and implemented the "Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts Classroom Teaching Discipline Standards", "Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts Student Learning Discipline Requirements and Attendance Regulations", "Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts Experimental Teaching Inspection Interim Measures", "Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts Examination Management Regulations", "Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts Student Violation of the Examination Disciplinary Regulations, "Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts Student Course Assessment and Score Recording Management Measures", "Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts Undergraduate Student Status Early Warning Implementation Measures", "Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts Undergraduate Teaching Quality and Teaching Reform Project Award Measures", The “Work Regulations of the Teaching Supervision Expert Group of Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts” and “Methods for the Identification and Handling of Teaching Accidents in Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts” put forward a series of teaching reform requirements and innovative measures, forming a party and government team that focuses on teaching, and teachers’ main energy is devoted to teaching and service Ensure a good atmosphere around teaching.


   The college’s international exchange work has made great progress in international cooperation projects, foreign experts’ lectures, international cooperation and shared courses, student dispatch, teaching and academic exchanges, and teacher dispatch for further studies. At present, our institute has established formal establishments with 26 foreign (overseas) first-class fine arts academies and art institutions, including the French National Academy of Fine Arts in Paris, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium, the London University of the Arts, the University of Quebec Academy of Fine Arts in Canada, and the Taiwan University of the Arts. Inter-school partnership. Carried out: "Paris Academy of Fine Arts Teachers Training Project", "Paris Studio Teachers' Sketching Cultural Investigation Project", "Bathpar University Student 2+2 Double Degree Dispatch Project", "Columbus College of Art and Design Student 2+1+" 1 Short-term exchange program", "Taiwan University of Arts student short-term exchange program", "Taiwan Shih Hsin University student short-term exchange program" and a series of foreign exchange activities. At the same time, off-campus and foreign artists are invited to conduct short-term or long-term art creation teaching exchange activities, such as: "Xi'an•International Printmaking Studio", "Chinese and Foreign Art Academy Dean Forum", "Xi'an International Digital Art Week", "Xi'an" The “Asian Folk Video Annual Exhibition” and other large-scale international and domestic exhibitions and activities, such as the “Asian Folk Video Annual Exhibition”, have played a great role in promoting the “internationalization” of our institute.


Guided by the development of cultural and creative industries for high-quality innovative and entrepreneurial talents, the college digs deep into Shaanxi’s unique traditional cultural resources, actively participates in the construction of cultural projects along the Silk Road, and promotes innovation and entrepreneurship education reform with the participation of universities, the government and the society , The college has undertaken more than 200 major construction projects and local humanistic landscape design such as the Shaanxi Hall of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the Capital International Airport, the 60th National Day military parade Shaanxi floats, the North Square of Xi’an Dayan Pagoda, and Xi’an Metro. In terms of projects, the college has signed more than 30 projects in the past two years, covering Shaanxi, Qinghai, Guangxi, Henan, Hunan and other regions. In terms of teaching projects, our school has established cooperative relationships with many companies and signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Hancheng Municipal People's Government to contribute to accelerating the transformation of teaching results and boosting the transformation and upgrading of the local economy.


The exhibition of graduates’ works of the college is branded as “Leave Traces in Time and Space”. Starting in 2015, it has been upgraded to a series of activities for the graduation season of “Open Western America”, creating a platform for graduates to display their talents, wisdom and creativity; with parents and society People from all walks of life, art institutions, art education departments, and employers are the main participants to comprehensively enhance the openness and integration of the college's art to the society, focus on opening up to the society, and report the teaching results and school characteristics of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts. At the same time, in order to enrich the teaching links, the college held a series of brand lectures such as "Graduate Academic Month", "College Lecture Hall", and "Art and Literature World" Cultural Lecture Hall, which became an effective supplement to the first classroom.