Which college has the best printmaking department?

Central Academy of Fine Arts

The Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts was founded in 1954 and is the first printmaking professional department in the country. Historically, famous teachers such as Li Hua, Gu Yuan, Wang Qi, Yan Han, and Huang Yongyu have taught here. They are both experienced art educators and artists with widespread influence. Their outstanding artistic practice and rigorous academic spirit have It has laid a solid foundation for the teaching of the Printmaking Department and formed a distinct Chinese printmaking education system, which has enabled the Printmaking Department's teaching to always maintain a high academic level. It plays a cutting-edge advocacy role in the national printmaking teaching and has a wide range of international reputations. Influence.

Nowadays, undergraduate teaching in the Printmaking Department actually starts from the second year. The teaching work mainly consists of three parts, namely: second-year professional basic course teaching, instructor's studio art comprehensive teaching, and printmaking technology studio technical auxiliary teaching.

The main teaching content for the second grade is sketching, color, thinking-visual transformation training and spring sketching class. The basic problem to be solved in the second-year teaching is: how to connect the college’s basic modeling training with the printmaking professional teaching that emphasizes creative thinking. Therefore, in the teaching of basic courses in the second grade, while emphasizing that students have a solid foundation in modeling, we also focus on cultivating their independence, initiative, interactivity and creativity in the process of artistic creation. In short, it is to cultivate students to have a pair of thinking "hands" and lay the foundation for entering the third-year tutor's studio.

Lu Mei

In 1958, two senior printmaking artists and educators, Zhu Minggang and Lu Tan, established the original teaching system of the Printmaking Department based on the basic structure of the Painting Department of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts. Structural system and school running conditions. As organizers and founders, they cooperated, planned carefully, overcame difficulties, and worked hard, making important milestone contributions to the establishment and development of the Printmaking Department of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts.

In the following decades of social and artistic changes, printmaking colleagues of all generations have adhered to the tradition, carried forward the past and opened up the future, worked hard to develop, and gradually expanded from the original wood board and slate profession to woodblock, slate, The copper plate, silk screen printing and watercolor majors have reached a school level with reasonable professional setting, strong teaching staff, excellent school running conditions, and first-class academic standards and social influence.

Guangmei University

The Department of Printmaking, formerly known as the "Printmaking Department of Central South Fine Arts College", was established in 1958. Since then, it has been responsible for the undergraduate teaching of printmaking majors and the creation and research of printmaking art in Central and South China. , and began to recruit its first postgraduate students in 1978, and in 1983 it obtained the right to award a master's degree in printmaking.

The first department chair was concurrently served by Dean Hu Yichuan. At that time, the teaching team included Zhang Xinrang and Liu Qimin, printmakers and educators from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, as well as Chen Tiegeng, who was engaged in woodcut creation in the early days of my country, and Chen Xiaonan, a copperplate engraver who studied in England in his early years, as well as Zheng Zheng, a printmaker who later graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. It is composed of Shuang, Wang Lisa, Zou Daqing, and key teachers such as Zhang Yunhui, Zeng Jikang, Pan Xingjian, Li Zheng, and Tu Zhihua who were trained by our school and have made great achievements in the field of printmaking. From the 1950s to the 1990s, the Department of Printmaking went from inception to maturity. After the restoration and adjustment in the late 1970s and the subsequent reform and development period, under the leadership of Zhang Xinrang, Pan Xingjian, and Li Zheng, successively, based on the four-year undergraduate program, The teaching syllabus is formulated according to the requirements of production, and laboratories for woodblocks, copperplates, lithographs, and silkscreens are established. In teaching, we adhere to the principles of realist art teaching, inherit the fine traditions of "emerging woodcuts" and the teaching philosophy of closely integrating with the development of the times, and pay attention to The cultivation of modeling foundation and creative foundation has formed the printmaking art teaching with southern regional characteristics.

Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts

The Printmaking Department of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts is the most important printmaking, photography teaching, scientific research, and creation base in the northwest region. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Printmaking Department was formally established in 1960 based on the "Printmaking Group" formed by a group of famous printmakers from Yan'an such as Wang Zhanfei, Liu Mengtian, and Di Jie. Under the care of famous printmakers Shi Lu, Liu Kuang, Xiu Jun and others, famous painters represented by Li Xiqin, Chen Yan and Liu Yongxian were trained and taught in the printmaking department. Since the reform and opening up, the Printmaking Department has focused on discipline construction, introduced talents and trained teachers in a planned way. It established the photography major in 1995 and expanded the film and television photography major on the basis of the picture photography major in 2002. The Department of Printmaking is one of the provincial key disciplines approved by the Shaanxi Provincial Degree Office and one of the earliest units in Shaanxi Province with the right to award master's degrees (the printmaking major enrolled master's degree students in 1982 and the photography major in 2003).

Among the eight major art academies, CAFA is the first to be chosen