Sichuan Fine Arts Institute

The Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, which has been in operation for 79 years, has its predecessor in the Sichuan Provincial Art College founded in Chengdu in 1940 by returned art educators such as Li Youxing and Shen Fuwen, and in 1950 when the artistic backbone of Northwest Military and Political University went south. Southwest People's Art Institute founded in Chongqing.

In 1953, the art and design disciplines of the two schools merged to form the Southwest Art College, located in Huangjueping, Jiulongpo District, Chongqing. The affiliated secondary art school began to be established the following year.

In 1959, it was renamed Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, recruiting four-year undergraduate programs, and became one of the top five art academies in the country at that time.

In 1981, it became the first batch of master's degree and bachelor's degree awarding units in the country.

School Profile

Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts is the only higher art institution in Southwest China. It currently has Huangjueping Campus in Jiulongpo District and Huxi Campus in University Town, Shapingba District, covering a total area of ​​1,200 acres. In November 2018, the school selected 150 acres of land in Liangjiang New District, Chongqing to establish the International School of Design (Western China Art Port).

The school currently has the School of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, the School of Plastic Arts, the School of Art and Humanities, the School of Art Education, the School of Film and Television Animation, the School of Architecture and Environmental Art, the School of Design, the School of Experimental Art, and the School of Public Art. Since entering the new century, the school’s education has developed rapidly, and has built first-class professional art galleries and libraries, a first-class art creation community, a first-class art teaching demonstration center, and a first-class innovation and entrepreneurship “maker space”. It ranks among the top professional art museums in the country. The school has good conditions for running schools.

In recent years, the school has had more than 100,000 undergraduate applicants and more than 3,000 graduate students. The school currently has 628 full-time teachers and 7,550 full-time undergraduates, master's students and international students.

Talent training

The school has four first-level disciplines under the category of art: fine arts, design, drama and film and television, and art theory, all of which recruit master's degree students. During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, four first-level disciplines were listed as key disciplines in Chongqing for support and construction, among which fine arts and design were listed as first-class disciplines for support and construction in Chongqing. In the fourth round of national subject evaluation, four first-level disciplines were all on the list, among which Fine Arts was rated A- and Design was rated B+. The subject strength is at the forefront of similar universities in Chongqing and the country.

The school has 22 majors for undergraduate enrollment, among which painting, sculpture, animation, art design, and industrial design are national-level characteristic major construction points. Fine arts, design, drama and film and television are Chongqing’s characteristic disciplines and majors. Painting, sculpture 10 majors, including product design, environmental design, visual communication design, fashion design, animation, drama, film and television art, architecture, and art theory, are included in Chongqing’s “Three Specials” action plan for support and construction.

Since the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", the school has established the school-running positioning of "domestic first-class, internationally renowned" and the goal of cultivating "high-quality, innovative, practical" artistic talents. It has adhered to the principle of being fundamental, comprehensively carried out teaching construction, and built a "big platform" +Multi-channel” talent training model. For all students, four major platforms have been created: "Ideological and Political Humanities", "Professional Education", "Practical Teaching" and "Information Teaching" to ensure the overall quality of undergraduate education. In order to cultivate top innovative talents in art, the school has established multi-channel training programs such as "top talent training", "characteristic studio training", "young artist residency" and "innovation and entrepreneurship education" to support outstanding students with potential to grow into talents. The "Ideological and Political + Art" ideological and political education for college students has achieved remarkable results and was highly praised by Chen Min'er, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee. It focuses on the integration of professional education and innovation and entrepreneurship education, and was awarded the "National Demonstration University for Deepening Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform" ” and the title of “National University with Typical Experience in Innovation and Entrepreneurship”; continued to build the “Open June” art tour and exhibition brand, and was approved as Chongqing Aesthetic Education Reform Experimental Zone; built a characteristic campus, strengthened environmental education, and good talent training conditions won the favor of all walks of life. of widespread acclaim. In 2018, the school received excellent results in the undergraduate teaching review and evaluation by the expert group of the Ministry of Education. The expert group unanimously affirmed: Sichuan Fine Arts Institute has a glorious history, outstanding achievements, numerous artistic talents, and wide social influence. It is a first-class art school with distinctive characteristics. , is a higher art institution that can represent Chongqing and even Chinese art on the world stage.

In recent years, the school has insisted that artistic creation serve the people's growing needs for a better life, proactively aligned with national and local economic and social development strategies, and vigorously consolidated six provincial and ministerial scientific research platforms including the Contemporary Visual Art Research Center, a key humanities and social sciences base in Chongqing. It has added a major theme art creation research center, a design innovation research center, an art and rural research institute, etc., and has achieved remarkable results in the creation of major themes, improvement of urban cultural quality, and artistic intervention in rural revitalization.

development goals

The second party congress of the school proposed: Strengthen the leadership of the party, persist in cultivating people with moral integrity, lead the connotation and characteristic development of the school with "double first-class", and unswervingly move forward towards the goal of becoming a first-class domestic and internationally renowned academy of fine arts. .