Suzhou US Special Magazine "Art Wave" Study

The paper takes the school magazine Art Waves of Suzhou Fine Arts Training School as theresearch object, It comprehensively expounded the founder background, causes, history course,the main content layout of the magazine and the meaning and value of publication. It shows theeduction status of Suzhou Fine Arts Training School and the appearance of early Chinese arteducation, at the same time, it highlights the documented role and historical value of Art Waves asa school magazine. This paper deep unscramble the presentation and works in the magazine andstrive to restore the face of magazine publishing, based on the collection and study of existingmagazines information. The main point of this paper is to excavate the scattered content of schoolhistory by the school magazine and explore the related topics of art eduction of Suzhou Fine ArtsTraining School, like teacher’s composition and educational philosophy by the research of theauthor and contents of the works and artistic presentation that published in the school magazine.From another side, this paper presents a new way of educational historian research and elaboratesthe academic course of Suzhou Fine Arts Training School as early Chinese art education corner bythe history of Suzhou Fine Arts Training School. Art Waves not only recorded the art educationstatus of Suzhou Fine Arts Training School, but also recorded the social and cultural environmentof Chinese art private schools for nearly half a century, cultural environment, at the same time, itshows a variety of educational philosophy and artistic view point and deserve further research.