A Preview About Chinese Modern Art Design Education

Sichuan Art Junior College is the precursor of Sichuan Fine Arts College and Sichuan Academy of Music. It is established in Chengdu in the early time of Chinese war against Japan. Its embryo is the craft arts workshop that is named "China craft agency". Li Youxing, Sheng Fuwen and Pang Xunqin are the pioneers who are the craft artists in the earlier period of China. After being established and integrated, Sichuan Art Junior College set up three specialized subjects: Practical art, building and music. Among them, the practical art is the main special field of study that includes the directions of lacquer, furniture, printing and dyeing, etc.In this college, the craft artists such as Li Youxing have already carried on a trying of China modern design education. They conducted a conversion of modernity to traditional craft art and craft art education through combining the excellent craft art traditional and the thought, technique of foreign modern art design together. It was a good experiment in the exploratory process that China craft art of "Classic appearance" change into the stage of modern art design. We can see some factors of the modern art design education that includes Bauhaus college in Germany clearly from its conditions of running a college. The factors are the value of combining the technique and the art together, the attention of develop the foundation theories...