China Academy of Art

The predecessor of the China Academy of Art was the National Academy of Art. In 1928, Mr. Cai Yuanpei, the dean of the graduate school at the time, chose the site of Hangzhou West Lake and founded the first comprehensive national higher art institution-the National Academy of Art, with four departments of traditional Chinese painting, Western painting, sculpture, and design, and preparatory courses and research. Ministry, began the practice of "aesthetic education instead of religion" and opened the chapter of higher art education in China.

　　 In the 80-year history of the development of the China Academy of Art, several relocations and names have gone through many trials and hardships. From the National Academy of Art, the National Hangzhou Academy of Art, the National Academy of Art, the East China Branch of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts to today’s China Academy of Art, the long westward migration from Hangzhou to Jiangxi, Hunan, Yunnan, and Chongqing, from The long sound of the bell in the lonely mountain, the length of the Nanshan Lake, the magnificence of the foothills of the Xiangshan Mountain, the years pass, the personnel changes, and the spirit is immortal, and the fire is passed on.

In the 80-year history of the development of the China Academy of Art, two clear academic threads have always overlapped, one is the "inclusive" thought represented by the first principal Lin Fengmian, and the other is the "traditional development" represented by Pan Tianshou. The idea of "new", they used academics as a public tool to forge each other and work in parallel, creating a relaxed environment conducive to the creation of new art and the healthy development of humanities. It has become the most important tradition and characteristic of this school, creating a history of Chinese art education. Important chapter.

Over the past 80 years, the China Academy of Art has gathered and trained many outstanding artistic talents in China and even the world in the 20th century, such as Lin Fengmian, Pan Tianshou, Huang Binhong, Liu Kaiqu, Wu Dayu, Yan Wenliang, Ni Yide, Li Kuchan, Li Keran, Ai Qing, Chen Zhifo, Pang Xunqin , Lei Guiyuan, Xiao Chuanjiu, Guan Liang, Huang Junbi, Chang Shuhong, Dong Xiwen, Wang Shikuo, Wang Chaowen, Li Lincan, Deng Bai, Wu Guanzhong, Zao Wou-ki, Zhu Dequn, Luo Gongliu... Generations of artists are like shining stars. It illuminates the sky of Chinese modern art history. They weep with heart and blood, struggling hard and creating peaks one after another for Chinese art education.

As the first national higher art academy with the most complete disciplines and the most complete scale in China, the China Academy of Art has experienced the hardships of the start-up period, the richness of the mature period and the leap forward in the expansion period. It has always stood at the forefront of the art of the times and is full of revitalizing national art His sense of historical mission and responsibility, full of rational spirit of active dialogue with world art, has an important influence on the innovation and expansion of contemporary Chinese visual culture and art.

　　 Today's campus renewal of the China Academy of Art, the inheritance of ideas, the reorganization of faculties, and the expansion of disciplines have achieved leapfrog development in the history of the school. The conditions of the China Academy of Art have been improved as never before. The Nanshan campus built in 2003 has achieved the modern interpretation of the Ink Art Academy, and the Xiangshan campus, which was put into use in 2007, gave birth to the vision of the artist garden and a unique campus. Become the new name card of Hangzhou, a famous historical and cultural city. The campus covers an area of more than 1,000 acres, with a construction area of nearly 300,000 square meters, spanning Hangzhou and Shanghai, and has three campuses in Nanshan, Xiangshan and Zhangjiang. There are more than 8,000 students and nearly 1,000 faculty members.

The China Academy of Art has formed a "three-tier, three-department and ten-academy" school structure, which constitutes three levels of graduate, undergraduate and junior college students, and three teaching departments of professional basic teaching department, public course teaching department, and experimental teaching management department. The overall layout of ten colleges including the School of Art, the School of Design and Art, the School of Public Art, the School of Media and Animation, the School of Architecture and Art, the School of Arts and Humanities, the Shanghai Institute of Design, the School of International Education, the Vocational College of Art and Design, and the College of Adult Education. Proposed a unique disciplinary framework of "one person, two circles and six disciplines", forming a leg with art history theory as the heart, Chinese painting and calligraphy as the mind, oil painting and printmaking as the right arm, sculpture and new media as the movement. , The humanoid structure of the studio with integrated art as the torso that connects the limbs, gestates the multiple pursuits of plastic art creation into a symbiotic and interactive life whole. At the same time, with this humanoid structure as the core, design art, film studies, radio and television art, architecture, and art as the outer ring of the double-ring structure, it emphasizes the importance of high-level disciplines and humanistic care to the core of the six disciplines. Leading role. In 2007, the Fine Arts Discipline of China Academy of Art was once again listed as a national key discipline, and the first-level discipline of Fine Arts was approved to establish a post-doctoral research mobile station.

The China Academy of Art advocates diversified and interactive academic ideas that are harmonious but different, and create a talent training environment of "Pin Xue Tong, Yi Tong Tong, Ancient and Modern Tong, and Chinese and Foreign Communication”, and cultivate both moral and artistic skills with basic theoretical quality, practical ability and innovative spirit. Xin's outstanding talents take the responsibility of leading the development of Chinese modern art, follow the goal of building a world-class university put forward by the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, forge ahead, pioneer and innovate, and strive for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!