History Of Ancient Chinese Art Education

In the Chiese ancient fine art history .art was regarded as low skill("艺成而下") before 9. century A. C. Literati Painting rose in Song- and Yuan Dynasty. The literatl painters often said: "气韵非师"Which means that "气韵"cannot be achieved through the teaching from teachers to students, still less need fine education to say. That's why Chinese ancient fine art education has never been specially researched. Now that after nearly one hundred years of essentnally colonial cultural revolution, China starts to introspect the historical reason why Chinese ancient civilization could have been going on continually for thousands of years,to reknow the cultural significance of Chinese ancient education and its importance to Chinese consummate fine art history. Professor Chen ShouXiang, tutor of my dissertation, has a very deep historical insight. He preseribed the titel of my dissertation "Essentials of Chinese ancient fine art history and has given me so elaborate guidance during the last three years that I could complete this text smoothly. The full text amounts to 150 000 words. According to the general divide method of Chinese history. the whole text is divided into eight chapters. Following the principles of Chinese ancient history research which lays on the basis of literature , it expounds the C.A. 3000-year-history of Chinese fine art development from Shang - to Qing Dynasty. In two aspects. official-and folk education, from various angles, such as educational thoughts and system(Including teaching organization,educational mechanism, qualify- leation of teachers, students, teaching matertal aim and demands usw ), the teaching-learning relations and schools, it conducted deep historical fesearch and exposition to Chinese ancient education of calligraphy, hand-lcraft art and architectual technology, to fine art education for imperial professional painters. and to the concerning contents about the education for impertal professional and to the concerning contents about the education of literatl painting. Each has its particular emphasis so as to expose the basic sequence of Chinese ancient fine art history. Though all kind of elements and threads are very comlicated, the fundamental progtamme femains"模范经典",which4 means to take good examples from classical model, style, form, size and proportion as educational pattern and stadard This is the consistant fundamental principle of Chinese ancient fine art education in different history Phases, departments and classes.