History of Shanxi University School of Fine Arts

Shanxi Art School Period (Fine Arts Major) 1951-1958 On November 5, 1951, according to the relevant decision of the Shanxi Provincial People's Government, the Shanxi Art School was formally established under the Shanxi Provincial Bureau of Culture. It was the first public art school in Shanxi Province and one of the earlier art schools established in the country after the founding of the PRC. The address of the school was at No.4, East Street of Hezhou, Taiyuan, which is now the main campus of Shanxi Art Vocational College. The first principal Li Qun, vice principal Luo Lin, successive principals Tang Renjun, Xia Hongfei, Qiao Yaoshi.

The mission of the school was to cultivate much-needed talents in the field of culture and art for the newly liberated Shanxi, including different specialties such as music, dance, fine arts, opera, film projection, mass culture, etc., and the cultivation method was mainly based on training. During this period, the school organized nearly 50 training courses and trained more than 5,000 cultural and artistic cadres, who were distributed in the province's industrial and mining areas, rural areas, clubs, cultural centers, cultural troupes, and regional art schools, which facilitated the development of mass cultural activities in the province.

The art teachers at that time included Zhao Yanxu, Liqun, Wang Xuehua and Wang Shixiang. Zhao Yanxu studied at the Tokyo Art School in Japan, Liqun studied at the Hangzhou National Art College, Wang Xuehua graduated from the North China United University, and Wang Shixiang graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts College. They are the founders and founders of art education in Shanxi during the new China period.

During this period, the mission of the art program was to train art creation cadres of cultural organizations and teachers of regional art schools. These art personnel became the backbone of Shanxi at the beginning of the founding of new China to serve the national construction and promote the development of culture and art, but also for the new China period of Shanxi's fine arts and fine arts education in all parts of the province to sow the seeds of hope. On December 5, 1958, approved by the Shanxi Provincial People's Government, the Shanxi Art Academy was established on the basis of the Shanxi Art School, still under the Shanxi Provincial Bureau of Culture. The college became one of the institutions parallel to the major art colleges in the country at that time, which was a major leap in art education in Shanxi Province. Because of the limited area of the school, the Department of Fine Arts borrowed the Shanxi Provincial Party School, Shanxi Provincial Architecture School to run the school. Dean Xia Hongfei, vice president Wu Zihui, successive party secretary Wang Qing Ye, Ju Yuxiu, deputy secretary Pu Ying, art department director Lou Frost, party branch secretary Wang Huan.

The college has a fine arts department, music department, theater department and dance section, divided into undergraduate and junior college departments. The undergraduate program lasts for five years and the junior college for three years. The Department of Fine Arts offers five specialties: Chinese painting, printmaking, oil painting, arts and crafts, and sculpture. 1959 and 1960 saw the enrollment of two sessions of the college, with 60 undergraduates and 120 junior college students.

Teachers specializing in fine arts are: Zhao Yanxu, Wang Shaozun, Huang Jingtao, Lou Frost, Jiang Caiyin, Zhao Qiu, Dong Zhongzhong, Xiao Huixiang, Ye Zhenxing, Wu Che, Yuan Long, Wang Shixiang, Liu Jianjing, Xie Shuxian, Zhang Xiyu, Wang Huaiji, Zhang Fang, Zou Lanping, Wu Guoting, Jiao Guohui, Li Huiran, Wu Guojun, Zhang Damin, Xiao Lin, Zhang Zongzai, and Tie Yi. The administrative staff includes: Jia Bo Yu, Liu Ping, Han Mei and others. Most of the teachers graduated from famous art schools, and many of them came to Shanxi to support the construction in response to the call of the Party, and they contributed their youth and talent to the art education in Shanxi.

They revised the syllabus, wrote teaching materials, made teaching aids, carried out the requirements of nationalization, localization, modernization and massification of the teaching content, set up a collective teaching system, and strengthened the practice of art. 1959, Qian Junrui, vice minister of the Central Ministry of Culture, visited the school and gave a favorable review. The famous art creation in this period was the landscape painting scroll "Tongpu Scenery", which was made by Zhao Yanxu, Huang Jingtao and others for the 10th anniversary of the founding of the country, and was published in the magazine "Fine Arts", which had a great influence on the whole country. At the same time, teachers and students also use woodcut printed leaflets to actively participate in support of North Korea, against the U.S. empire and other activities, inheriting and carrying forward the revolutionary tradition of China's emerging woodcut fighting.

In 1962, Cao Mei and four other students were drafted into the army. Cao Mei's four works won the Beijing Military Region Literature and Art Prize in 1962-1964, three works were selected for the Third All-Army Art Exhibition, and one was awarded a prize of excellence, and they soon became the backbone of their unit's creative work with their excellent talents. July 3, 1962, due to the country's economic difficulties, according to the Shanxi Provincial People's Government and the Provincial Department of Education directives, Shanxi College of Fine Arts ceased to operate, most of the undergraduate teachers and students of the Department of Fine Arts, Department of Music was transferred to Shanxi University, the establishment of the Department of Fine Arts, Department of Fine Arts, Music, some undergraduates and the secondary school class in advance of the employment. Department site had been in the provincial construction school, Shanxi University North Campus, Building 2, the main building, the library building.

Successive director Xia Hongfei, Jilin, deputy director Lou Frost, Zhang Konan, Liu Jianchang, Kong Fanzhou, Huang Wanpin, Wang Yongqing, Fan Weixin, Wang Changyi, Xie Shuxian, Jia Yongzhen, party branch secretary Wang Qingnuo, Liu Wenxiang, Jia Zhenhua, Fan Weixin, deputy secretary Zhao Xuezhou, Xia Hongfei, Jia Zhenhua, Fan Weixin, Zhang Shunqing, Liu Shihua.

After the fine arts program was incorporated into Shanxi University, it became one of the 13 majors in the university at that time. Lou Frost was also the director of the fine arts teaching and research group, and Liu Jianjing was the deputy director of the teaching and research group. Teaching and research group set up under the basic exercises, Chinese painting, printmaking, sculpture, craft teaching group. Teachers transferred to Shanda are: Zhao Yanxu, Wang Shaozun, Lou Frost, Wu Guojun, Liu Jianjing, Ye Zhenxing, Zhao Qiu, Dong Zhongzhong, Wu Che, Yuan Long, Xie Shuxian, Zhang Xiyu, Wang Huaiji, Jiao Guohui and others.

Since then, the teaching staff has been growing, and the successive additions include: Tong Xianpu, Zhang Shunqing, Chou Qingyun, Ma Hongqi, Li Rong, Shi Bingyou, Shi Xiguang, Cao Wen, Hu Youzhang, Yu Laoshi, Liu Changyou, Xu Zhen, Yang Quaren, Guo Yuxiang, Han Shimo, Liu Zhiping, Li Dezhen, Yu Ping, Zhang Mingyuan, Lu Gang, Qian Shigang, Liu Jianping, Ji Rongde, Wu Xiaoding, Wang Jiping, Zhang Weidong, and Zhang Huayong, Dong Wenyun, Huo Yaozhong, Chen Zhao, Su Zhidong, Yang Chengyuan, Gao Xinxi, Peng Jingyue and Guo Qioying. Administrative staff include: Li Haoran, Li Tesheng, Jiang Ruijuan, Cui Yibing, Ke Fei, Zhang Ling, Zhang Xide, Yan Fubao, Zhao Guilian, Lu Changfang, Shi Xiaowei, Li Chunmin, Wang Sulan, Zhang Wentian, Chen Nan, and Wang Jincao.

1963-1965 enrollment of three, more than 50 students are undergraduate. 1966 "Cultural Revolution" broke out, stop enrollment. 1972-1976 enrollment of five "workers, peasants and soldiers," 170 students, two years of study. In 1977, the resumption of the college entrance examination to 1990, *** enrollment of more than 600 people. 1978 for the supplemental faculty recruited Li Deren, Ma Hongqi, Hu Youzhang, Huo Shanzhong four graduate students, which is the first batch of Shanxi ever cultivated postgraduate students in the field of fine arts.

After 1964, teachers and students went to Xinzhou twice to participate in rural social education, drawing publicity Dazhai, Jiao Yulu slides, comic strips, etc., and actively cooperated with the activities of the time. 1969, Wang Huaiji created the completion of the statue of Chairman Mao, which became a historic landmark building of Shanxi University.

1984-1990, teachers had 9 works selected for the 6th and 7th National Art Exhibition, 1 won the bronze medal award, 2 won the award of excellence, Zhang Shunqing went to Japan to hold a solo exhibition, Liu Jianping's "Walking through the village" won the bronze medal award of the 7th National Art Exhibition, went to Japan to exhibit and published in ARTE, Italy, Wang Jiping's contemporary art activities doubled the attention. 1988 initiated, held the "In 1988, he initiated and convened the International Symposium on Zhang Yanyuan and the Record of Famous Paintings of All Ages, and organized the Exhibition of Works by Teachers and Students of the Art Department of Shanxi University in Beijing, which was widely acclaimed by academics. Xie Shuxian edited "art college entrance examination guide" published.

Since 1963, the woodcut creations of the graduating students were successively selected for the National Art Exhibition, and Kang Zuotian's "Red Sunlight Warms Ten Thousand Generations" became a classic work in the period of the "Cultural Revolution", while Zhao Yichao's "Early Colors of the Dawn", a collaboration between Zhao Yichao and Zhang Mingtang, was awarded the Gold Prize in the Seventh Art Exhibition. The art talents cultivated by Shanxi University began to spread all over the province and became the backbone of the art world. In September 1990, according to the Shanxi Provincial Education Commission Jinjiao Renzi (90) No. 70 documents, Shanxi University Art Department was officially divided into the Department of Fine Arts, Department of Music. Department site had been in the south courtyard art building, physics building, north courtyard library building. Successive department chairman Zhao Qiu, Tong Xianpu, deputy director of Tong Xianpu, Han Shimo, Wei Yong, general secretary Liu Shihua, Wang Zehua, Zhao Peiwen, deputy secretary Wei Yong.

The teachers added in this period are: Chen Jun, Li Lei, Wu Guiwen, Zhao Zichun, Geng Jian, Liang Yonggang, Li Yajun, Wang Yuxi, Liu Caijun, Qiao Jin, Wu Xiaoming, Wang Huaiyu, and Wang Zhijun. The administrative staff are: Shi Xiaowei, Lv Chunxiang, Wang Sulan, Zhang Wentian, Chen Nan, Li Chunmin, Wang Jinguo, Li Xingyuan, Liu Huiying, Jin Hui and others.

Teaching gradually formed a multi-level school structure, including undergraduate, specialist, adult, postgraduate courses and social schooling, strengthened the teaching of basic courses, expanding the caliber of the profession, deepening the educational reform, expanding a wide space for Shanxi art education, this period **** recruiting all kinds of planned students 397.

In April 1992, the United States, California State University Professor, the United States painter Ding Shaoguang visited the school, was appointed honorary professor of our university. July, Shanxi University, "Chinese Buddhist thought and culture international symposium" held in Taiyuan and Wutai Mountain, the teacher Liu Zhiping, Li Deren read a paper. During this period, Li Deren published "Introduction to the Principles of Oriental Painting", "Taoism and Painting and Calligraphy", "Xu Wei" and other monographs, won the first prize of social sciences in Shanxi Province, the first prize of teaching achievements, the first prize of the Commission of Education for Humanities, etc..

In 1991 Liu Jianping's "Walking through the Village" was selected for the French Autumn Salon, and in 1993 Ji Rongde's works were awarded the bronze medal in the National Printmaking Exhibition. 1994 nearly ten pieces of teachers' works were selected for the Eighth National Exhibition of Fine Arts, and the works of Liu Jianping, Ji Rongde, Hu Youzhang, and Lu Gang were awarded the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Prizes of the Twelfth Exhibition of Fine Arts of Shanxi Province. 1996 Liu Jianping and Ji Rongde were honored with the first Shanxi Provincial In 1996, Liu Jianping and Ji Rongde were honored with the title of "Trans-century Literary and Artistic Rising Star", and Zhang Shunqing was awarded the "Lu Xun Printmaking Prize" by the China Printmakers Association.

Before and after 1995, graduates Zhao Yikai won the first prize of Shenyang Group's million-dollar, nationwide collection of logos, Liang Yonggang and others won the third prize of the national "Meiyuan Cup" competition, seven outstanding awards, Niu Jinping's works were selected for the Eighth National Exhibition of Fine Arts, printmaking students participated in a number of national exhibitions and won awards, reflecting the overall strength of the teaching at that time and the The printmaking students participated in many national exhibitions and won prizes, reflecting the overall strength of the teaching at that time and the active artistic creativity of the students. In July 1996, according to the "Ninth Five-Year Plan of Shanxi University and the Outline of Vision 2001", the school decided to set up the College of Fine Arts, which was one of the first four colleges in the school at that time. The name of the college was inscribed by Mr. Zhu Naizheng, a professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. The school was located in the Library Building of the North Campus, and was moved to the New Art Building in 2004.

Successive deans Tong Xianpu, Han Shimo, Wang Yuxi and Gao Xinxi, vice deans Han Shimo, Wei Yong, Lv Chunxiang, Yu Ping, Liu Jianping, Wang Yuxi, Liu Caijun, Gao Xinxi, An Chunbao and He Qiang, secretaries Zhao Peiwen, Cao Zhenhan and Du Jianmin, and deputy secretaries Wei Yong, Lv Chunxiang and Han Shulin.

The teachers added during this period are: Guo Fei, Wang Yazhu, Shi Hui, Shi Hongyun, Liu Weidong, Wu Guangyu, Wang Qian, Cao Dong, Guo Shiguang, Li Hengdong, Li Xiaoyang, Zhong Conghui, Zhao Jianzang, Cao Feng, Wang Lu, Wang Liwen, Bai Zhaoyi, Wu Daming, Wu Xiaomei, Zhang Tongyuan, Lian Ting, Jiang Li, Pang Zhuoeyun, Yu Yue, Xu Yinyan, You Yu, Liang Yong, Liu Yong, Hu Zinan, Xu Haitao, Wang Yongsheng, Zhou Tao, Yu Ge, Feng Renjun, Yao Lan, Chen Zhiyong, and Zhang Huixin. The administrative staff are: Wang Jincao, Chen Nan, Li Chunmin, Li Xingyuan, Liu Huiying, Jin Hui, Zhang Yanhua, Liu Weidong, Jia Weiling, Wang Lunmei, Zhang Xiuling, Bai Dongqing, Zhao Chenglin, Zhang Yiping, Mao Beiyi, and Bailu.

In 1998, we hosted the "Eighth National Symposium on Teaching Management in Higher Art Colleges" and the "National Exhibition of Drawing Works by Students of Art Colleges".

In 1998, it hosted the "Eighth National Symposium on Teaching Management in Higher Art Colleges" and the "National Exhibition of Drawing Works of Art College Students". In 2003, it obtained the master's degree in design art, in 2005, it obtained the master's degree in art, and in 2006, it obtained the master's degree training center for teachers in colleges and universities. By now, the College of Fine Arts has become one of the most complete master's degree training units in art disciplines among similar institutions in China.

In 1999, Guo Yuxiang, Gao Xinxi, Wang Zhijun design and production of the "50th anniversary of the National Day celebration of Beijing colorful car" won the first prize for the overall design, was praised by the experts and the central leadership, for the province to win the honor. 2002 Gao Xinxi completed the school logo, the school flag, the school celebrates the overall design of the logo, Han Zhimo, Wang Jiping, Guo Qiuying, Gao Xinxi, Wang Jiping, Han Zhimo, Wang Ji Ping, Guo Qiuying and Guo Qiuying. , Wang Jiping, Guo Qiuying, Peng Jingyue, Liu Weidong, Wu Guiwen, Zhong Conghui, Li Lei, Chen Jun and others undertook a number of designs for the centennial celebration of Shanxi University made great contributions.

In addition, Wang Yuxi's work "Children's Interest in Mountain Village" won the silver medal of the Fourth National Sports Art Exhibition, and nearly twenty pieces of teachers' works were selected for the Ninth and Tenth National Art Exhibitions; the scientific research achievements in art and design are notable: Gao Xinxi's "VI Series Design" won the gold medal of the Sixth China Folk Art Festival, Wu Xiaoming's "Imperial Vinegar of the Tang Dynasty" won the Bronze Medal of the China Star Design Grand Prize, and Wang Zhijun was awarded the "Hong Kong Design 2000" International Design Award, and the "Hong Kong Design 2000" International Design Award. Hong Kong Design 2000" International Design Competition Asia Award of Merit, Gao Xinxi presided over the completion of the "Restoration and Protection of Yuji Old Town", Wang Jiping presided over the completion of the "Shanxi Provincial Museum Overall Decoration", Huo Yaoyuzhong, Wang Huaiyu presided over the completion of the "Imperial Palace Xiangfu Cultural Tourism Landscape Planning and Design" and other subjects. Zhang Mingyuan's "Shanxi Liao Jin colored sculpture investigation and research" won the national social science planning fund project. The collection of art works for the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanxi University, the collection of essays on fine arts for the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanxi University, and the publication of Artology: Scanning of Problematic Domains and Focuses, edited by the Academy, were published.

Since 1996, all kinds of planned enrollment of nearly 2,000 people, the level of teaching significantly improved, students to participate in national art competitions frequently won awards, especially the art and design categories have a greater impact in the country, has formed a more distinctive schooling characteristics.

The college has initially formed its own characteristics of the academic research team, the team is centered on the "integration of Chinese and Western art essence, carry forward the characteristics of the culture of Sanjin," the academic positioning to carry out new research and exploration, and strive to push a number of academic cutting-edge value in a short period of time, as well as the regional characteristics of the Sanjin high-end academic results.