The Modernism Fine Arts And The Higher Education Of Fine Arts In China

The Modernism Fine Arts Sourced from the west countries originally, gave rise to numerous and colourful trends and schools of thought in the field fine arts, which are deviant from the traditional one. It has influenced the development of fine arts all over the world penetratingly for more than 100 years since it appeared, and it has important enlightenment to the artists of the present age even today.The Modernism Fine Arts was introduced to China in the 1920s-30s.Since then, it has been influencing China' s arts trends and fine arts' teaching from time to time. However, this important chapter is a rather weak tink in the teaching of fine arts in China. This paper aims at bringing to light the disadvantages in the teaching of the Modernism Fine Arts through the introduction to the Modernism Fine Arts and its present teaching conditions. First, it looks back the develepment of the western arts. Second, it elaborates its influence to the fine arts' teaching in China since it appeared in the 1920s-30s, including: (1)the influeme of the two Modernism Fine Arts Trends on its teaching ; (2)The promotion of the Modernism Fine Arts teaching from the establishment of the studio system, (3)The impact on modern design from Modernism Fine Arts. (4)The impact on the Modern Fine Arts and its teaching from high science and technology, second, it expounds the overlooking to the Contemporary and modern arts in Normal Schools' fine arts' teaching. Furthermore, it proposes the tentative assumption to the teaching reform. In this part, With detailed and appropriate suwey records and analyses to investigating result ,it proposes the view of strengthening appreciating teaching to the Modernism Fine Arts in middle school .Then it indicates the reform measures to the Modernism Fine Arts teaching in normal schools, e.g. hardwares construction, teaching thought, etc, so as to strengthen further merging of fundamental teaching and the Modernism Fine Arts .We can get the clear understanding of the backward in the attitude to the Modernism Fine Arts in our higher and junior education in Fine Arts through Careful exposition. It is this kind of understanding that makes us overcoms this disadvsntage and enlarge the possibility of teaching of the Modernism Fine Arts, we can't construct the modernism Fine Arts teaching system with Chinese features unless we treat it with suitable"Bringing In and Absorbing" attitude.