A Study On Cultivation Of Lin Fengmian As The President In Hangzhou National College Of Art

In the First Half of the Twentieth Century, which was full of turbulence and challenges, the spread of western culture and arts in China had stimulated the reforms of Chinese art education thought and practice greatly. As a result, there were large quantities of higher fine arts universities and colleges and the leaders concerned who were characterized with the initiative spirit in the field of fine art education at that time. Among them, Lin Fengmian became the core leader of fine arts educational circle due to his contribution as the founder of Hangzhou National College of Art which represented the highest level in the advanced fine arts education during the late period of the Republic of China.The study on Lin Fengmian can not only focus on his personal history diachronically but also synchronically on the every side of his activities at a certain time. This dissertation centers on his ten-year work at Hangzhou National College of Art from the perspective of his qualities required as a president there, and attempts to answer the following questions:(1) How about the procedure of running Hangzhou National College of Art and its performance and influence as well?(2) Whether is Lin's personalities related to the accomplishment of running the college?(3) What qualities are required as the president of a Fine Art College?(4) What are the strengths and weaknesses of Lin's on the aspects of education, quality and capacity respectively?(5) What enlightenment can be offered for the current higher education of fine arts through comparison?The detailed discussion is shown as follows:Firstly, to introduce and expound Lin's performance in terms of designing and running the college.Secondly, to illustrate Lin's knowledge accumulation and its relationship with arts creation and teaching.Thirdly, to center on the forming of Lin's personalities, and its relationship with his link between teachers and students as well as his hospitality. Fourthly, to discusse the forming of his ability, and its relationship with his ability to run the college and deal with education & research.Finally, to evaluates objectively his merits and demerits by the comparison with those of Cai Yuanpei and Xu Beihong respectively in terms of scholarship and self-cultivation and with Liu haisu from the perspective of abilityThe central hypothesis of the research is that Lin is not substantially the outstanding one as to the individual aspect of scholarship, self-cultivation, personality and ability. However, he is unexpectedly one with unique advantage in terms of comprehensive accomplishment. As a result, he had been one of the distinguished presidents among those of Fine Arts Colleges before 1949. This dissertation tries to demonstrate the essential scholarship and self-cultivation required for a president of a Fine arts college by confirming the central hypothesis.When discussing different educationists, we could divide them into three kinds: "scholar-type educationists" for their outstanding scholarship;"gentleman-type educationists" for their fine character; and "administrator-type educationists" for their remarkable management ability. Then, which type of educationists was successful and was in the majority before 1949? In the process of making the study, the author keeps thinking such questions as the changes in the connotation and construction as educationists, their significance on higher education and the direction of the current educationists' devotion and so on after 1949, which may be beyond the central topic of the thesis but are connected with the study on Lin's cultivation. Therefore, the real answer to those central propositions lies in the extensive and profound research.