General Appreciation of the Graduation Exhibition of the Central Academy of Fine Arts

The following is a summary of the appreciation based on an interview with Tan, the vice president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), about this year's Graduation Exhibition.

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On the stage of this year's graduation exhibition of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, more than 1,100 graduates have appeared in order, after three years, four years, five years, or even longer studies, they completed their studies in the Academy, and in this season of SHOW TIME, the students who are about to wave goodbye to the Academy are still in a kind of excitement - the completion of the graduation creation, the completion of the school before leaving the school. In this season of SHOW TIME, students who are about to leave the Academy may still be in a kind of excitement - the completion of the graduation creation, the apprehension before going out of the school, the compliments of their younger siblings, the warmth of their alma mater? Through the temporary hustle and bustle, calm down, we look back at these works, compared to previous years can be short and long.

Focus on graduation creation and design, which is the tradition of the Academy of Fine Arts. This is the summary of the students in the school learning period, students and teachers for this are invested greatly, so the school inside and outside the attention of people is also high. From the point of view of students' graduation creation, this year's graduation works in the creation of the theme is more inclined to the expression of daily life and the state of existence, focusing on a certain side of life, a certain subject of interest, like a record of a slice of life, and no longer the pursuit of large and comprehensive. Creative methods are also more diversified and personalized. Generally speaking, both graduate and undergraduate graduation works are of higher quality this year, and the language of artistic expression is richer. Especially in this year's graduate exhibition, the quality has been greatly improved, and there is a breakthrough in the research and innovation of the students' creations. To say that impressive and particularly outstanding works are indeed more difficult to choose.

From the undergraduate graduation exhibition, we reflect that the most prominent problem is still the imbalance between the majors, and the gap is not small, some majors are very prominent, while some majors have not seen improvement for many years, for example, this year, we are on the Department of Printmaking students' graduation works overall evaluation is relatively high, which mainly stems from the Department of Printmaking over the years throughout the guiding ideology of teaching, that is, to require the students to master the basic knowledge and skills of printmaking based on the conscious extension of On the basis of mastering the basic knowledge and skills of printmaking, students are required to consciously extend the expression and methods of printmaking language. The starting point comes from printmaking, but the direction and angle will be extended outward according to their own needs of expression, thus forming the diversified and rich outlook we see. Crossover also reflects the penetration from one field to another.

What also impressed me was the Home Products Program of the School of Urban Design, whose graduation works were also widely noticed and praised. Home furnishing products major has just been created for five years, is a young major, this year is the second graduate. The dedication of the young teachers is the key to achieving good teaching results. These young teachers are both talents cultivated by the Academy itself and talents returned from overseas. They all have an international perspective, a sensitive comprehension of the relationship between modern design understanding and today's industrial development, and a passion to do something. Especially in the relatively unfavorable situation of running a school in Yanjiao, it seems to have inspired them to hold back their enthusiasm to do something. They brought up from first-year students, a lot of spare time with students, ready to communicate, all the way, *** with the growth, creating a very good atmosphere for learning and work. In the past, when we talk about the tradition of the Academy of Fine Arts, we talk a lot about the academic scope, to see these young people's teaching status can let a person feel that the Academy of Fine Arts tradition is a very core part of the teachers for the love of students, for the love of art education. It is this love that makes the spirit of the Academy of Fine Arts to be passed on from generation to generation.

In addition, the City College of Painting has maintained a relatively high level of teaching, ceramics program and the United States Alfred cooperation has been ten years, in the integration of culture gradually on track, the overall quality of graduates continue to improve.

Sculpture Department this year, graduate students graduate work is relatively strong, students' works have a strong tension, undergraduates slightly flat, works of personality expression is not too prominent. Mural teaching and creation has been relatively stable, this graduation exhibition painting more, compared to the previous mural of public **** sex theme less.

With regard to oil painting, everyone always expects to be able to "reproduce the splendor", but it has never happened. In general, I felt that the students lacked some creative passion and a strong desire to express themselves. It is possible that they want too much to show all their energy in one work, such as: the theme of the idea, rigorous and solid basic skills, as well as contemporary and many other issues, too many ideas rather than highlight the key points. In terms of the general trend, the era of artists trying to make a huge impact through a single piece of work is over.

This year's performance of experimental art seems to be a bit disappointing, and there is a breakthrough in terms of the overall outlook. Unlike the completeness that previous years' student work reflected, this year's student work gave the viewer a sense of unfinishedness and constant growth. Objectively speaking, some of the works have not fully expressed their own concepts, and they still lack knowledge and experience on how to display their concepts, and their overall ability to master the concepts needs to be improved. But the overall appearance is still worthy of affirmation.

The graduation works of the School of Design have always insisted on experimental exploration, focusing on the expression of design concepts, and many exploratory design works have been recognized. The works of visual communication, digital media, photography, and jewelry students have been maintained at a very high level, and the graduate works of apparel are also excellent. Automotive design students' graduate work had an overall debut, presenting a rich level of imagination and specialization.

The School of Architecture has maintained its previous rigorous approach to its work, and both the graduate and undergraduate exhibitions reflect this meticulous outlook, which is an essential and fundamental quality of being an architect. In the process of summarizing the graduation exhibition, they are also constantly reflecting on how they can pay more attention to the expression of originality in future graduation exhibitions, rather than just the display of models and drawings, to reflect the value of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in running an architecture program through the attention to beauty and aesthetics. What kind of architecture program to run is a question that the Academy has been thinking about. If the standard of running an architecture program is the only one, then the Academy has no meaning to run an architecture program. Over the years, the School of Architecture has been adhering to the philosophy of running a school from art, and no matter what unified standards there are for architecture majors and how we strategically respond to these standards, we have been able to achieve the same goal. As a result, we have achieved promising results and received favorable comments in the industry.

The overall level of teaching and graduation creation in the School of Chinese Painting in recent years is good. In the graduation creation of the problems embodied in the more obvious: such as: students' works are too much like the tutor's works. Mr. Qi Baishi said long ago, "learn from me to live, like me to die". This phenomenon in the era of masters with apprentices, excusable, but in today's art education context of this phenomenon, it is worth reflecting on. This is related to the question of how to inherit the tradition, but also the question of what and how to inherit the tradition. This phenomenon exists not only in the School of Chinese Painting, but also in other faculties, and needs to be sat down and discussed.

From the overall reflection, works focusing on society and reality, as well as design works to serve the community are still more attention, "focus on reality, service to the people" has always been the fine tradition of the Academy of Fine Arts. For artistic creation, what is the theme of "concern for reality" should be an in-depth discussion to clarify the real problems of society, the expression of true feelings, rather than the surface of the "concern" and "service". It is not a superficial "concern" or "service". If there is no topic closely related to today's society, there is no real inner experience of the artist, no matter whether his work is figurative, abstract, realism, idealism, beautification, or criticism, his work is very difficult to infect people, impress people, let alone serve the people.

Good art and design grows from the inside out from the depths of people's hearts, slowly getting closer to our real lives and colliding with them to produce moving works. Today we are facing an era of change, an intricate and complex world full of new challenges. I think, in such a situation, education as a kind of mental enlightenment work, more should start from the heart of each person.