The China Academy of Art releases a series of activities to commemorate the 95th anniversary of the school. "Drink water at the source and walk with greatness" artistic actions are fully launched.
A series of academic activities celebrating the 95th anniversary of the founding of the China Academy of Art
In 2023, society is accelerating and the world is changing day by day.
From the establishment of the Xianghu Campus and the establishment of the Chinese Art and Traditional Chinese Studies School, to the launch of the online art community (CAACOSMOS) "Dongtian" and the Meta Art Academy, to the "Dao Wuji - Zao Wou-Ki Centenary Retrospective Special Exhibition"...
The beauty of the country in the 1995 period is a source of mutual essence, a prairie fire path from the inside out, a state of origin and flow that starts anew.
From the "Proposal to Leonardo da Vinci" to question the times and explore the Renaissance people of the 21st century, to 12 teams going to the scene of world civilizations to explore their origins, to the release of "Tianwen 2023: Mutual Learning of Civilizations"... from around the world Gome's coverage extends throughout the year and around the world...
The 95-year-old Gome embodies integrity and innovation, the confidence of the times to walk with greatness, and the world-wide sentiment of mutual learning from world civilizations.
At the end of five years, the China Academy of Art used the rope as a rope to guide the path and record the events. After nearly a hundred years of hard work, this college has always been concerned with how to build a new art education.
At that time, nearly a century of innovative power was pouring out, action scenes overlapped, diverse ideas collided, new technological humanity was in search, and the potential pulse of human civilization in the new century needed to be broken through.
95 Gome, together practice tribute and transcendence on a new interface, sincerely invite us to face the two-way inspiration and dual challenges of history and the future, recreate a new wave through dialogue, speculation, co-construction and a profound and full world, and jointly shape the new proposition of the era.
The beauty of the country in the 1995 period is a source of mutual essence, a prairie fire path from the inside out, a state of origin and flow that starts anew.
On April 8, 1928, Mr. Cai Yuanpei delivered a famous speech at the opening ceremony of the National Academy of Art, "The academy is only for academic research." He proposed that "the university should establish an art academy in West Lake to create beauty and make future people change." His superstitious heart is the love of beauty, so as to truly complete people's lives." This opened a chapter of higher art education in China. Since its birth, this school has been a school with lofty educational ideals and great artistic care.
Today, 95 years later, the China Academy of Art, guided by General Secretary Xi Jinping’s instructions to “accelerate the construction of a world-class art academy that embodies the highest level of research and teaching in Chinese culture and art”, promotes “the pioneering journey of Chinese art and the core of art education.” On-site, a declaration of the times of the academy spirit", and continue to promote the development of a world-class fine arts academy.
In the nearly one hundred years of history of the China Academy of Art, the predecessors of the past generations have lit up the sky of the history of modern Chinese art like a constellation of stars, and have also formed the spiritual context and academic heritage of the school. For the China Academy of Art, this is a "countdown" to a hundred years, which contains the evocation of historical memories, the sorting out of academic context and genes, and is also a reflection on the present and questioning of the future.
"Go to the source to drink water and walk with greatness", behind it lies the traditional way of creating new things by "making the new with the past", which evolves from history and creates itself through inheritance. On April 8 this year, the series of academic activities for the 95th anniversary of the founding of the China Academy of Art and the 2023 "Gome Release" officially kicked off. The Calligraphy School of the China Academy of Art, the China Academy of Advanced Film Studies, and the School of Social Aesthetic Education were established; two new things were announced - Dongtian: CAA Cosmos and Meta Art Academy. At the same time, the Xianghu Campus of the China Academy of Art was officially launched. Relying on top majors such as Chinese painting and calligraphy, it will build a "Chinese Studies Gate" of Chinese art, making the Xianghu Campus the intersection of the school's two academic threads of "connecting the East and West" and "traditional innovation" It is a place to cultivate a "study for general people" that combines art and theory, Taoism and knowledge, and learning.
This year, the China Academy of Art solemnly welcomes back an important figure in its history—French-Chinese painter Zao Wou-Ki. On September 19, the "Dao Wuji - Zao Wouki Centenary Retrospective Special Exhibition" opened at the China Academy of Art Museum. The exhibition displayed 129 Zao Wouki's oil paintings, as well as more than 200 important works and related documents, which is Asia's most important exhibition. The largest retrospective exhibition of Zao Wou-Ki. The exhibition follows the clues of time, with six sections: "Two Traditions", "Integration and Symbiosis", "Like a Mirror to Other Mountains", "Infinite Vitality", "Poetry and Picturesque", and "Becoming Wuji", which presents Zao Wou-ki's connection between the two worlds. A great tradition, an artistic career and creative achievements spanning two centuries.
Many activities derived from the "Special Exhibition of Zao Wou-Ki's Centenary Retrospective" will be launched at the same time as the 95th anniversary series of academic activities. On November 8, the China Academy of Art Museum will host the “Promise·Music and Painting Night”. As an experimental performance, this event uses Zao Wou-Ki's paintings as inspiration to perform musical improvisation and form a mobile concert in an art museum. On November 9, the series of forums "The Great Way of Wu-Ki - Special Exhibition of Zao Wou-Ki's Centenary Retrospective" will bring together relevant directors of art schools and museums across the country as well as experts and scholars at home and abroad to explore Zao Wou-ki's artistic relationship from the perspectives of academies and museums. The implications for current art school education, museum exhibitions and collections, and the contemporary art world.
The 95-year-old Gome embodies integrity and innovation, the confidence of the times to walk with greatness, and the world-wide sentiment of mutual learning from world civilizations.
Since the new century, the China Academy of Art’s anniversary activities have been held in the second half of that year. Each event goes beyond Gome's own school history and focuses on cutting-edge academic propositions. The central project of the 75th anniversary celebration is "Bounds of Place: Asian Contemporary Art Investigation Plan". It lasted for half a year and conducted research in five Asian countries to explore the migration and geopolitics of contemporary art in Asia. It was the first time that the Chinese art world took the initiative to investigate The systematic exploration and expression of "Cultural Asia" and "Asian Modernity" is also the first large-scale academic cooperation between China's ideological and artistic circles. In celebration of the 85th anniversary of the school, the theme exhibition "85·85 - Returning Possibilities to History" projects the 85-year history of the Academy of Fine Arts on the time slice of 1985 and displays it, taking 85 alumni starting from Lin Fengmian as cases. Revisiting their 1985, through works, documents, interviews, short films and other forms of expression, vividly presents the historical experience and artistic practice of several generations of Americans at the time point of 1985. In essence, it is an image of historical philosophy. experiment.
The core academic activity of the China Academy of Art's 95th anniversary celebration is "Tianwen 2023: Mutual Learning of Civilizations." Throughout the summer, 12 teams of teachers and students from the China Academy of Art traveled around the world to visit the Lufeng Dinosaur Tomb - Amazon Jungle - San Francisco Silicon Valley - Icelandic Crater - Miranda Vinci's Former Residence - Moscow Workers' Club - Damaidi Petroglyphs - Yan'an Yangjialing - Japan Gui 12 core scenes, including the palace, explore the civilizational history and anthropological implications of art. From November 10th to 13th, the newly opened Liangzhu campus will hold the "Report from the World" and "Image Action" press conferences and the "Star Cluster" exhibition. This series of activities will transform the Liangzhu campus into a civilization. An artistic reactor of mutual learning.
This is a real "college action" in the post-epidemic era, a "American process" heading towards a century. By exploring the historical origins of each major, paying tribute to the great moment with the significance of "beginning", it attempts to promote exchanges and interactions among world civilizations. Think about the origins of art education from the perspective of appreciation, trace the origins, pay more attention to the present, perceive the development pulse and potential trends of human civilization, especially scientific and technological civilization in the 21st century, and use this to cultivate a group of people with global vision, historical awareness, and An artistic young man with artistic ambition.
From October 28th to November 11th, "Proposal to Leonardo da Vinci - Shanghai Science and Technology Art Exhibition and the 7th International Cross-Media Art Festival" and "New Six Arts: Renaissance Man in the 21st Century" will also be held Education series forums, the first China Academy of Art Synesthesia·Boya International Academic Forum, "Art Experience and Knowledge Production: The Creative Research Method of Professional Doctors - The Fifth China Art Education Forum" and a series of high-level academic activities.
In addition, as an important part of the 95th anniversary celebrations of the school, the "View of Nature - Dialogue between Art and Philosophy" 30 Years of Concrete Expression Painting and 20 Years of Comprehensive Doctoral Training in Painting Practice and Theory Academic Forum, as well as the "120th Anniversary of the Birth of Wu Dayu" Academic activities such as the "Commemorative Seminar" and the "Commemorative Seminar for the 120th Anniversary of Lin Wenzheng's Birth" will also be carried out in December.
At the same time, the opening ceremony of the China Academy of Art Liangzhu Campus and the launch of "2023 Design Restart" released the white paper "Design Restart - International Development Bulletin of Design Discipline" to create a historical mission statement for the 21st century with design - in art and technology Reconstructing design humanities in the dialectical integration of aesthetics and ethics, re-inventing daily life in the overall network of "information-technology-capital-power", and promoting social innovation.
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