"Holding Through The Classics And Achieving Change" - A Century-old Research On The Teaching Ideas Of Nanyi Chinese Painting

Nanjing Arts University having gone through over one-hundred-year journey holds a profound and abundant literary root that is flourish and stretching.The teaching ideas and methods of Chinese painting has penetrated in this literary root whose core just lies in them.At the beginning of the Republic of China,Liu Haisu who had shouldered the historical responsibility of the Chinese nation,Chinese culture and Chinese painting founded the Fine Arts Institute of Shanghai as the original intention of running a school to “develop the inherent Eastern art and study the mystery of the Western art ” and “save the country and the people” and as the purpose of running the school to “study the fundamental spirit of Chinese and western art” and taking“unceasing changes” as the spirit of running the school.And the principles of running the school included “Aesthetic Education”,“Extensive,Restraint,Profound and Pretty” and “Academic Freedom and Inclusiveness”.The three characteristics of “essentiality”,“flexibility” and“academic” contained in it have laid the ideological foundation for the teaching methods of the Chinese painting of Nanjing Arts University,the centenary old school.After that,in the teaching of Chinese painting major,Shanghai Institute of Fine Arts had formed the three characteristics of“inquiry into the ontology of Chinese painting”,“organizing teaching based on ‘academic freedom’ and ‘inclusiveness’,etc.” and “following the essential requirements of Chinese painting teaching”.It marked the initial formation of the teaching ideas of the hundred years old school.Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China,although the teaching ideas and methods of Chinese painting have been continuously adjusted according to the New China’s literature and art policies,on the other hand,they have also been affected by the market economy and foreign artistic trends,this school has still stuck to the tradition of Shanghai Institute of Fine Arts and remained flexible to adapt,and many famous teachers have constructed a teaching system and curriculum system in their teaching,which has cultivated the "the Style of Nanjing Arts University".This is the teaching achievement.In short,teaching ideas and methods of the traditional Chinese paintings of Nanjing Arts University going through over one-hundred-year journey adhere to pure academic vision,take a flexible approach and study the essence of Chinese painting,so that create the new opportunities and prospects for Chinese painting.Academic,Flexibility and Essence is its fundamental and “holding classics and fulfilling improvement” is its refined summary.