Today, natural light will introduce to you the definition of pure art by overseas art schools, compared with the concept of pure art under the domestic art examination mode. When it comes to pure art, most people may think of the following words: free, romantic and unrestrained. When it comes to the reason for choosing to study pure art in overseas universities - "because it's fun! It's not as rigid as in China". But is that really the case? Today, natural light takes Parsons pure art as an example to show you how to study abroad pure art majors compare with pure art under the domestic art examination mode.

　　 Comparison of pure art majors at home and abroad:

Now, the scope of pure art majors studying abroad also ranges from the original Painting/Painting, Sculpture/Sculpture, Architecture/Architecture, Music music, Poetry/Poetry, as well as the Theatre/Drama and Dance/Dance included in the Performing Arts, "increasing" to more modern forms of Film/film, Photography/Photography, Video Production&Editing/ Image editing, Design/Design, and Conceptual Art/conceptual art.

First of all, let's talk about the study of pure art in China. The concept of pure art in China is different from that of western traditional aesthetics. We all know that domestic traditional art exists in its own system, and our traditional art forms are mainly based on calligraphy and traditional Chinese painting. For traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy, whether specific to line drawing, freehand brushwork, metalworking, or similar to sculpture seal cutting, inscription, it is emphasized that the creators have very strong "basic skills", and in terms of specific creation techniques, there are also more systematic "good or bad judgments".

After domestic art began to be influenced by western art, we also began to study pure art. Taking the art examination as an example, the assessment content has become a completely "western" sketch, watercolor, sketch. However, based on the previous traditional art learning methods, although it is western art, the students' learning methods still emphasize the "accuracy" of techniques and the "effect" that the works ultimately present - that is, "good" or "bad".

Even the students who have participated in the art examination will have such experience. The domestic pure art study can judge the students' ability and the quality of their works by scoring. But this is not true in the western art system, because no work can be judged by scores.

Specifically, during our study, we once interviewed a student who was from a middle school attached to an art school in China. She told us that when drawing in high school, the teacher would stare at the position and content of each stroke of your pen. Every time you received homework, the pictures of the whole class were almost the same, even if it was a sketch. If sometimes there is a "wrong" drawing, the teacher will ask to erase it and redraw it. But this has never happened in the natural light of the completely overseas teaching mode.

　　 Take Parsons Parsons as an example to introduce the pure art major of studying abroad

Compared with overseas art schools, Parsons ranked the third in the world and the first in the United States Parsons School of Design For example, the Fine Arts (BA) specialty defines pure arts as: You learn to translate ideas into visual expression by acquiring skills in a variety of media and exploring diverse contemporary artistic strategies in media ranging from painting and perfection to video and performance "By learning various skills and professional abilities based on creative media, students will be guided to explore the core of contemporary art from painting and sculpture to video and performance. Students will learn how to transform ideas into visual expression."

Secondly, in the professional interpretation part, the school gave such a keyword "Creative Voice" - creative voice, pure art learning, to help students better show their unique "creative voice" through art forms. As for specific ways, the interpretation given by the school, in addition to traditional painting and sculpture, also has non-traditional art forms of "innovative interdisciplinary methods/innovative interdisciplinary methods" - photography, video images, experimental art, art practice, performance, etc. Compared with traditional art forms, they have more contemporary art characteristics.

In order to "prove" that pure art does not only attach importance to emotion and expression, Parsons also provides us with specific course learning directions to give a more explanatory understanding: students will acquire comprehensive concept expression, critical writing awareness and other professional abilities in a series of Core Studios/credit courses.

For example, Art and design history and history courses/art and design history and theory courses can provide students with the theoretical background, writing ability, and critical thinking awareness required for the extension of ideas and concepts; In a series of lectures and elective courses such as Humanities/Humanities, Social Sciences/Social Sciences, Media Studies/Media Studies, and Business/Business, students will gain specific future planning awareness and critical ability for their majors.

For specific courses, except for Foundation Year courses in the first year, which are the same as all other majors, we can see that the courses in the next three years are highly systematic and logical:

Let's take the PUFA 22xx Core Studio 1:2D [3D, 4D] † course as an example: this course is divided into three sections: 2D, 3D and 4D, of which the 2D course mainly teaches pure art professional expression based on 2D plane expansion:

In this course, students will learn in an unusual 2D way: this course will invest a limited but non prescriptive construction of elements that serve as essential 2D materials, techniques and formal composite structures

Students will use three different pure artistic expressions to create at the same time, such as print, oil painting, and print printing; Another example is printmaking, oil painting and photography. In this process, students gain not only the theory and skills of a single creative way, but also the ability to consider problems from multiple perspectives, look at problems, and discover the uniqueness of comprehensive expression for creation.

As for the undergraduate course, next we can look at the pure arts in the master's stage. In the professional description part, the school gave a definition: "artists perform an essential role in society" - artists play an important role in society.

Compared with the basic study during the undergraduate period, the study at the master's stage will develop its own research direction in a broader but more in-depth environment. The cultivation of students by the school will also be refined from "extensive" aesthetic awareness, critical thinking, comprehensive ability and other directions to specific political, social, economic and other issues.

For example, the explanation on the official website above said: "focuses on a range of topics such as art and federation, art and science,and art and poetry.Academic classes expose students to global contemporary discourse on art and develop their critical abilities.Students interact with visiting artists of varied practices and cultural orientations.”

These topics include "art and feminism", "art and science", "art and poetry", etc. These topic specific exploratory studies will give students the opportunity to develop their own critical thinking in the context of contemporary art. At the same time, students will also have interactive discussions with professional tutors, professors, artists and others with different cultural and social backgrounds.

It is not difficult to find that these topics, regardless of their size, first need very comprehensive and reliable research as a preliminary support, secondly need perfect and thoughtful theories as endorsement, and finally, the "freedom" of divergent creation combined with creativity under the identity of artists.

Summary Parsons Studying Abroad in Pure Art Major With the professional learning and curriculum framework of the two stages of undergraduate and postgraduate studies, we will find that although Parsons emphasizes that students should have distinctive "Creative Voice", it also specifically indicates that the premise of "Creative Voice" is that you should first have a sound and systematic aesthetic, critical thinking, language writing ability, and comprehensive media expression ability; Secondly, we should also have the ability to conduct in-depth logical thinking and solve problems in the specific social, life, economic, humanistic and political environment according to the context of contemporary art.

Compared with the pure art under the domestic art examination mode, it is not difficult to find that from the perspective of the basic concept of pure art, colleges, and art education at home and abroad, we can draw a conclusion that even pure art majors that emphasize the expression of artistic emotion need strong logic and thinking art as support, and also need creators to have comprehensive critical thinking, aesthetic awareness Creative depth, logical research and other capabilities. In the creation of pure works of art, the creator cannot leave the strong expression of emotion, but it is also the existence of emotion that can better connect the main line of creation and the context of content, so that creation is always around the core emotion.

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