留学生与中国美术教育的现代转型

Returned Students and the Modern Transformation of China's Fine Arts Education

中国美术教育的现代转型始于辛亥革命时期,一批从日本和欧美回国的留学生为中国传统的美术教育过渡到现代美术教育作出了重要的贡献,蔡元培、徐悲鸿、林凤眠等就是其代表人物。他们不仅是西方现代美术教育思想在中国的主要提倡者,而且是中国现代美术院校的主要创办人和主要师资,还是中国现代美术社团的主要发起者和主要成员。在他们的身体力行下,中国美术教育的现代转型于20世纪30年代初得以完成。

The modem transformation of China＇s fine arts education started around the time of the 1911 Revolution. A number of returned students who had studied in Japan, Europe and America made an important, decisive contribution to the transition from the traditional fine arts education of China to modern fine arts education. Cai Yuanpei, Xu Beihong, Lin Fengmian, etc. were their representatives. They were not only the principal advocators of the educational ideology of modern Western fine arts education, but also the chief founders and teachers of modern fine arts institutes in China. Besides, they were the primary initiators and members of modern fine arts organizations in China.