There are grades for art.
There are 10 levels in the art exam. The art exam is based on live painting and there is no theoretical exam. After the exam, experts from the Grade Assessment Review Committee of the Calligraphy and Painting Examination Center of the China Academy of Art Science and Technology will review the social art level certificate and issue it uniformly. The art examination is open to all people regardless of age, gender and occupation. Anyone who loves art can take the examination.
Test subjects: sketching, color (watercolor, gouache, oil painting), soft-pen calligraphy, hard-pen calligraphy, seal cutting, Chinese painting (landscape, flowers and birds, figures), children's painting. Children's painting is for levels 1-5, and other subjects are for levels 1-10. The registration fee is 5-20 yuan per subject, the examination fee is 50 yuan per subject for levels 1-5, and 10 yuan for level 1 for levels 6-10.
Definition of art terms:
Usually refers to an art such as painting, sculpture, arts and crafts, and architectural art that is developed in space, expresses one's attitude, and appeals to people's vision. When Europe began to use this name in the seventeenth century, it generally referred to paintings, sculptures, literature, music, etc. with aesthetic significance. When this term began to be commonly used around the time of the May 4th Movement in my country, it also had a connotation equivalent to the entire art.
For example, when Lu Xun explained the word "art" in 1913, he wrote: "Art is a word...translated from the English name Aite. The word "Aite" originally came from Greece, and its meaning is art". Soon afterwards, our country used the word "art", which was translated as "爱特", and the word "art" became a name specifically referring to visual arts such as painting.