1. Introduction to the flagship majors of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
National specialty majors: painting, industrial design, sculpture
National major comprehensive reform pilot project: industrial design
Provincial specialty majors: art design, painting, sculpture, fine arts
Provincial major comprehensive reform pilot construction project: sculpture, visual communication design, environmental design, product design, art and technology, digital media art
Key construction disciplines in Guangdong
Panfeng first-level key disciplines in Guangdong Province: Fine Arts, Design
Second-level specialty in Guangdong Province Key Subjects: Art Theory and Criticism 2. Introduction to Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, as the only independent higher art institution in South China and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, is rooted in this cultural lineage among.
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, formerly known as Central South Academy of Fine Arts, was founded in Wuhan, Hubei in 1953 with the approval of the Ministry of Higher Education. It was formed by merging departments. In 1958, the Central South Academy of Fine Arts moved from Wuhan to Guangzhou and was renamed Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. In 1981, it was awarded the first batch of master's degree granting rights in the country. In 1987, it began to recruit students from foreign countries, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. In 2005, it was approved as one of 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 "First learn to be a human being, then paint a picture" and adheres to the development concept of "facing the contemporary era, studying the West from the past, learning from the past, and respecting teachers and teaching". After more than 60 years The development of the school has formed a system that grasps the pulse of the times, pays attention to social needs, focuses on the cultivation of art and design innovation capabilities, is supported by art theory and humanities education, interdisciplinary integration, industry-university-research linkage, and proactively serves social and economic development. School characteristics. Entering the world, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts relies on Guangdong's advantages as a vanguard, pioneer and experimental area for reform and opening up, based on the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and relies on its multiple advantages in history, location, cultural resources and talent gathering to A high starting point and new actions will promote talent training, scientific research and creation, better provide services for the development of the world's society, and accelerate forward by riding on the east wind of the "One Belt, One Road" initiative.
School scale In 2004, the school built a new campus in Guangzhou University Town. It currently has two campuses, Changgang and University Town, with a total area of ??564 acres and a total construction area of ??411,884 square meters. The school currently has 8 colleges and 1 ideological and political theory teaching department. Undergraduate education has 31 majors and 55 professional directions, and 24 majors have been enrolled. As of the end of September 2017, the school had 5,303 undergraduate students, 721 master's students, 16 international students, 1 general preparatory student, and 6,041 full-time students, equivalent to 7,140 students on campus.
The discipline vocational school currently has 3 provincial-level key disciplines, including 2 first-level disciplines of "Art" and "Design" and 1 second-level discipline of "Arts and Crafts", which are provincial-level key disciplines. There are 3 disciplines, including a first-level discipline of "Art Theory" and two second-level disciplines of "Art Theory and Criticism" and "Film, Television and Digital Media". In the fourth round of national subject evaluation by the Ministry of Education in 2017, the school's two first-level disciplines, "Art" and "Design", were rated B+, and "Art Theory" was rated B, ranking first among similar disciplines in universities in Guangdong Province. , ranking among the top in the country.
As of January 2018, among the 24 undergraduate majors enrolled in the school, there is 1 national-level professional comprehensive reform pilot project major, 3 national-level specialty majors, 8 provincial-level specialty majors, and 8 provincial-level specialty majors. There are 1 national-level key major, 6 provincial-level professional comprehensive reform pilot projects, and 2 provincial-level applied talent training demonstration majors. The total number of national and provincial high-quality majors is 14, accounting for 58.33% of the total number of enrolled majors.
Teaching staff 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. A number of masters and famous figures in the history of contemporary Chinese art have taught in our school for a long time. The school currently has 67 professors and 156 associate professors.
The teaching team includes Huang Danian-style teaching teams in colleges and universities across the country, national "*" leading talents, "four batches" of talents from the Central Propaganda Department, experts who enjoy special government allowances from the State Council, new century outstanding talents from the Ministry of Education, and members of the State Council's Discipline Evaluation Group. , a member of the Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, the director and deputy director of the Art Committee of the Chinese Artists Association, and a group of outstanding talents such as directors of various art and design professional societies in China.
Talent cultivation The school adheres to talent cultivation 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 Province College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Demonstration School". In the past three teaching achievement award reviews, it has won 3 first prizes and 3 second prizes in Guangdong Province. Since 2010, our school students have achieved outstanding results in various important competitions and activities, such as the Bronze Medal of the 12th National Art Exhibition, the Excellence Award of the 4th National Youth Art Exhibition, the Gold Medal of China's Hundreds Jinling Art Exhibition (Chinese Painting), China's Hundreds Jinling Art Exhibition (Oil Painting) Gold Medal, China's First Illustration Art Exhibition Best Work Award, China Human Settlements Design Annual Award, Asian Design Annual 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 Innovation Design Red Star Award, Ministry of Education National College Student Industrial Design Competition, etc., and has won more than 100 heavyweight art and design awards of various types. In recent years, the initial employment rate of our school graduates has always remained above 97%, and the overall employer satisfaction rating for our school graduates has reached 97.41%. The quality of talent training in schools has been steadily improved.
Platform construction The school attaches great importance to the construction of a three-dimensional and diverse collaborative education platform. In recent years, 31 national-level and provincial-level platforms have been built. 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 scientific research platforms, including: Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory "Guangdong Industrial Design Creativity" and Applied Research Key Laboratory", Guangdong Provincial University Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences "Chinese Institute of Modern and Contemporary Art" and "Lingnan Art and Cultural Heritage Research Center", provincial intangible cultural heritage research base "Lingnan Art Heritage Collaborative Innovation" 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 Provincial University International and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Cooperation Innovation Platform "Contemporary Urban Culture and Architectural Art Innovation Research Center", Guangdong Provincial University Key Promotion Platform "Digital Imaging and Digital Industrial Engineering Research Center"; "Lingnan Chinese Painting Experimental Teaching Center" and other 7 provincial teaching demonstration centers, and 1 Guangzhou City Humanities and Social Sciences Key Research Base "Lingnan Cultural Animation and Creative Research Base" and 13 other school-level platforms of various types. These industry-university-research cooperation 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’s teachers have won the China Art Award Lifetime Achievement Award, the China Art Award Creation Award, the China Art Award Theoretical Criticism Award, the First Prize of the National Sports Art Exhibition, and the Ministry of Education’s Higher Education Award in recent years for scientific research and creation. Hundreds of provincial and above awards including the School Scientific Research Outstanding Achievements Award, the Guangdong Province Philosophy and Social Sciences First Prize, the Chinese Calligraphy Franking Award, the China Art Festival Art Works Exhibition, the China Design Exhibition, the German Red Dot Award, etc. Scientific research and creation awards, including the Chinese Civilization Historical Theme Art Creation Project, National Science and Technology Projects, National Art Fund Projects, National Social Science Fund Art Projects, National Education Science Planning Projects, New Century Outstanding Talent Support Projects, Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences projects and many other high-level scientific research projects.
Social Services The school actively participates in and integrates into regional economic and cultural construction. Shenzhen City Sculpture "Pioneering Cow", Zhuhai City Sculpture "Zhuhai Fisher Girl", Changsha Orange Island "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 for the Guangdong Museum of Art, the China Pavilion at the 2005 Japan Expo, the 2010 Shanghai World Expo Theme Pavilion "City and People", the Shanxi Pavilion, etc., and the visual design of 52 items including mascots, medals, core graphics, and color systems for the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games. Design, Guangzhou city LOGO design, etc., all come from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.