Academic Sketch Teaching: Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Printmaking Series Retained Sketch Works Collection

Author: Wang Wenming
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Publish Date: 2003-11-01
Features: This collection of works titled "Academic Sketches" showcases the outstanding sketch works of students from the Printmaking Department of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts from the 78th to the 2002nd class after the resumption of the college entrance examination. It vividly reflects the state and appearance of the teaching in China's higher art colleges over the decades. From this, one can also glimpse the development and changes in China's art education, as well as the process and results caused by the transformation of teaching concepts. It not only emphasizes the transmission of basic artistic principles but also stresses the cultivation of students' artistic individuality, imagination, and creativity. The close connection with creation, the combination of long-term, medium-term, and short-term course arrangements, the emphasis on the concept of "life-oriented learning," and the teaching philosophy of embracing various expressive techniques, drawing on the essence of both Chinese and Western art, re-examining the comprehensive functions of art education, the interaction between concepts and guiding principles, strengthening the self-unique perception of images, transforming simple training into multi-dimensional exploration with independent aesthetic value orientation—all of these are condensed in the experimental report on the teaching of the Printmaking Department's "Academic Sketches."