Syllabus for Chinese Art History

1.Teaching objectives of the course

Through the teaching of this course, students can understand the various artistic characteristics and achievements in the occurrence and development of Chinese art, broaden their knowledge of art, cultivate appreciation for art and familiarize themselves with Chinese traditional art culture. Laying a good foundation for creative professionals and art workers.

2.Teaching principles and requirements

1.Bases on dialectical materialism and historical materialism, draw on and absorb Chinese and western art research methods. Teaches literary and artistic thoughts, art schools, artists and their works in various historical periods.

2.Combines theory with practice, critically inherits and takes from Chinese art heritage to solve practical problems in the contemporary art practice.

3.The combination of popularized basics of Chinese art history and latest research results to show the development and evolution of various categories of Chinese art. From a combination of art phenomena, art schools, artists and artworks, explores the relations between art and political, economic, cultural, religious and other related factors.

3. Key content

Part 1 Prehistoric and Pre-Qin Art

Chapter 1 Prehistoric Art

1. Paleolithic stoneware and decorations
2. Art in the Neolithic Age
3. Painting B. Sculpture C. Craft building

Chapter 2 Pre-Qin Art

1. Bronze art
2. Sculpture art
3. Painting art

Part 2 Qin Han Fine Arts

Chapter 1 Painting Art

1. Mural
2. Murals in palaces and temples B. Murals in tombs
3. Silk paintings of the Han Dynasty

Chapter 2 Stone relief and Brick relief

1. Han Dynasty Stone relief
2. Qin Han Brick relief

Chapter 3 Sculpture Art

1. Qin Dynasty pottery figurines, Han Dynasty pottery figurines
2. Han Dynasty stone carvings
3. Bronze casting

Part 3 Wei Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties Sui and Tang Art

Chapter One The Painting Art of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties

1. Famous painters and their works
2. Paintings
3. “Six principles of Chinese painting” and other theoretical literary

Chapter 2 The Painting Art of Sui and Tang Dynasties

1. Figure painters and their works
2. Yan Liben and ” Emperor Taizong Receiving the Tibetan Envoy “
3. Wei Chi Yi Monk and Western Region Painting Style
4. Wu Daozhi and his school
5. Zhang Xuan, Sunday Fang and female portraits
6. Landscape artists and their works
7. Zhan Ziqian, Li Sixun and Blue-green shan shui
8. Wang Wei’s ink landscape
9. Painters and works of flowers, birds and animals
10. “Famous Painters of various Dynasties”

Chapter 3 Sculpture Art

1. Wei Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties
2. Tomb sculpture

Chapter 4 The Art of Cave Temples

1. Art of cave temples in Xinjiang
2. Art of cave temples in Gansu
3. Art of cave temples in Central Plains
4. Art of cave temples in other regions

Part IV Fine Arts of Song and the Five Dynasties

Chapter One The Painting Art of the Five Dynasties, Northern and Southern Songs

1. The inheritance of the Five Dynasties painting
2. Figure paintings in the Song Dynasty
3. Wu Zongyuan’s religious paintings
4. Li Gonglin’s line drawing, Liang Kai’s stroke-reducing figure painting
5. Song Dynasty genre paintings and history paintings
6. Landscape painting in Song Dynasty
7. Li Zai and Fan Kuan
8. Guo Xi and “Lofty Messages of Forests and Streams”
9. Mi’s misty landscapes and Xiaojing Landscape
10. Blue-green shan shui
11. Southern Song Dynasty
12. Flower and bird painting in Song Dynasty

Chapter 4 Liao, Jin and Yuan Painting

1. Paintings from the boarders of Jin
2. Zhao Mengfu and Yuan Dynasty
3. Four Schools of Yuan Dynasty
4. Flower, bird paintings and figure paintings of the Yuan Dynasty

Part V Art of Ming and Qing Dynasties

Chapter 1 Painting

1. Early court painting and Zhejiang school
2. Mid-Ming Dynasty literati painting and Four Schools of Wumen
3. Painting in the late Ming Dynasty
4. From the Songjiang School in the late Ming Dynasty to the Orthodox School in the early Qing Dynasty
5. “Four Monks” in the early Qing Dynasty
6. “Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou” and painting in the middle and late Qing Dynasty

Chapter 2 Murals, Prints and New Year Pictures

1. Ming and Qing Dynasties Murals
2. Ming and Qing Dynasties prints
3. Ming and Qing Dynasties New Year Pictures

Part Six Modern and Contemporary Art

Chapter One Contemporary Chinese Painting

1. Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Art
2. Shanghai School and Lingnan School
3. Beijing painters and Zhejiang painters

Chapter 2 Introduction to Chinese Modern Art

4.Instructional practice