Introduction to the departments of Guizhou University Art College

The Department of Design was founded in 1980s, and it is a teaching institution that trains senior art and design talents. There are two majors in art design and photography, covering graphic design, environmental art design, fashion design and photography. After years of construction and development, the design department has gradually formed a group of academic leaders and young and middle-aged academic backbones, and has a team of teachers with high quality, high level, active thinking, courage to explore and reasonable structure. The design department has a solid professional foundation and outstanding advantages. "Frontier of discipline consciousness" is an important teaching concept of design department. The department has relatively perfect teaching facilities, a good teaching environment, standardized and strict teaching management and a fine tradition of rigorous scholarship, and has now become a professional institution for art and design education in the province.

In the professional teaching of design department, students learn the basic theories and knowledge of art design and photography, so as to improve their artistic accomplishment and professional skills, and cultivate professionals with knowledge and ability in art design (photography) and creation, teaching and research, who can engage in related art work in art design (photography) education, scientific research, design, production and management units. Founded in 1950s, it is a teaching institution for training high and intermediate music and art talents. At present, there are three undergraduate majors: music performance, composition and composition technology theory, and musicology, covering more than 20 professional directions such as vocal singing, orchestral (percussion) instrument performance, Chinese instrument performance, keyboard instrument performance, and minority music. There are also master's degree programs in musicology and master's degree programs in art, covering ten research directions, including China traditional music, ethnomusicology, music aesthetics and history, composition and composition technology theory, vocal music singing and teaching, violin playing and teaching, piano playing and teaching, guzheng playing and teaching, and saxophone playing and teaching. After years of construction and development, the Music Department now has 1 school-level majors (music performance majors) and two school-level key courses (introduction to folk music and solfeggio). It has a team of teachers with great academic influence, rich teaching experience, dedication and reasonable structure, excellent teaching resources and relatively complete teaching facilities.

In the professional teaching of music department, students can systematically learn the professional theory and basic knowledge of music, receive strict professional skills training, cultivate strong performance, teaching and organizing music activities, and engage in performance, teaching and research, music popularization and education in professional literary and art groups, art colleges, institutions, factories and mines, cultural propaganda and other units. The Department of Fine Arts has a history of more than 50 years, and it is a teaching institution for training senior painting professionals. At present, there are two undergraduate majors in painting and animation and master's degree authorization points in fine arts. Undergraduate majors include Chinese painting, oil painting, printmaking and animation. The master program consists of five research directions: China landscape painting, China meticulous figure painting, contemporary art creation and research, oil painting and graphic design. After years of construction and development, the Department of Fine Arts now has a team of teachers with profound academic attainments, rich teaching experience, active thinking and reasonable structure, equipped with relatively complete teaching hardware facilities, and trained a large number of senior artists of painting in the province, some of whom have become the artistic backbones of universities, art groups and colleges, and many students have won gold, silver and bronze awards in art exhibitions at home and abroad.

In the professional teaching of Fine Arts Department, students can systematically learn and master the basic theoretical knowledge and professional skills of plastic arts, carry out the basic training of artistic creative thinking and painting modeling, cultivate the basic ability of painting (animation) creation, teaching and scientific research, and engage in creation, teaching, research, publishing and management in professional institutions, universities, design, publishing and management units. The Department of Drama, founded in 1980s, is a professional teaching institution that trains advanced drama, film and television performances, directors and broadcasters. There are three undergraduate majors: performance, choreography, broadcasting and hosting. Since the establishment of the Department for more than 20 years, the majority of teachers have been conscientious, pioneering and innovative, and determined to forge ahead, forming a team of teachers with great academic influence, rich teaching experience, vitality and great responsibility, and have trained a large number of outstanding performing arts talents for professional art groups, universities, radio and television systems, enterprises and institutions in Guizhou and the whole country.

In the professional teaching of drama department, students systematically learn the basic knowledge, theory and skills of drama, film and television, director, broadcast host, dance and music, receive the basic training of professional ability necessary for their professional work, cultivate the basic ability of artistic image-building, and be able to engage in drama performance, director, TV production and program host in literary and art groups, art colleges, radio, film and television and other departments. Sculpture Department, formerly known as Sculpture Major of Guizhou Art College, was founded in 1980s, and it is a teaching institution for cultivating senior sculpture talents. After more than 20 years of construction and development, this major was formally established as the sculpture department in March 2005. Sculpture Department now has undergraduate sculpture major, with the connotation of "modern synthesis" and "traditional realism", and has a team of teachers with rich teaching and practical experience, full of vitality and pioneering spirit; And equipped with relatively perfect teaching hardware facilities, in the long-term practice of running a school, we have accumulated rich experience in running a school and formed a unique and complete teaching creative system.

In the professional teaching of Sculpture Department, students can systematically learn the basic theoretical knowledge of three-dimensional plastic arts, master the ability of basic sketch, clay sculpture, wood carving, stone pottery, metal and other sculpture creation arts, cultivate the basic skills of figurative and abstract modeling materials, engage in creative design and enlarged production in outdoor, urban public environment, indoor shelves and other sculpture fields, and engage in teaching and scientific research work of this major.