The Effect Of Song Dynasty's Painting Education To The Painting Academic Education Of Modern China

Chinese painting education has been under construction and development accompanying with critics and reconstruction during past recent hundreds of years. Ever since early 20th century, the realistic painting style and arguments of the western classics has taken place of the classic "Learning from the nature, harvest in the heart" of Chinese painting absolutely. The Soviet education model introduced in 1950s argues "sketches is the basis for all modeling art" and this policy has been accepted and inherited by most painting academe as a uniform model to give the basic Chinese painting education. The disadvantages of the model, which is base on the western academic education systems from France and Soviet Union, have become obvious and were responsible for the loss of the Chinese painting education. To enable classic Chinese painting to meet with the greater challenges and to make the right decisions for the new era, Chinese painting education must take more critics and seek for revolution.As a significant method of cultural extension and to realize the historical process of Chinese renaissance, education should be strategically treated to keep and develop nation's culture, esp., the Chinese painting education. Taking historical lessons, learning from the past, the painting academe of Song Dynasty is undoubtedly a representative of Chinese traditional painting education.The painting academe set up in 3rd year of Zongning of King Hui (1104) was a milestone,, which remarked the establishment the earliest Chinese royal institute of the fine arts. Even since then, a complete recruitment, class arrangements and test systems have been set up for the painting education of Song Dynasty. It was a institute for production as well as providing education to painters. The recruiting and testing system, which focuses on the test of the creativity of students, was complete and strict. Cultural education and skill trainings are the keys to the class arrangements. The policies have worked actively to provide a better education to the royal painters and they are very important in the Chinese Art Education History and are even instructive to the contemporary Chinese painting education.It can be learned from the past by analyzing the testing system, class arrangement and art arguments of the painting academy of Song Dynasty. With the problems posed from contemporary Chinese painting education, following advices are recommended to construct the new ideas for the Chinese painting education in 21st Century:1. The attitude toward the academic education system2. Facts of Chinese painting education3. Direction for the construction of new Chinese painting education4. Objectives of Chinese painting education5. Models of Chinese painting education...