Art education in the United States pays attention to practicality and economic benefits. Some universities in the United States will count the influence of graduates entering the society as artists and the economic value of their works of art, that is, the sales of their works after graduation. Design education in the United States is closely related to the booming industry in the United States, and the world-famous art center college of design has always been in the leading position in the world because of its strong industrial support. At present, there is no unified official concept and curriculum standard of art classification in China and the United States. The entire American curriculum depends on the powerful industrial power of the United States, and the American animation curriculum is also at the upstream because of the prosperity of Hollywood film industry.

Second, the professional classification

There are thousands of colleges and universities on all continents in the United States, most of which have courses in art and design. Although there are no uniform standards for so many courses in so many colleges and universities, the basic concepts of American art design specialty can still be roughly seen.

1. Fine arts: The master of pure fine arts courses is the master of fine arts, that is, MFA. Pure art courses include pure two-dimensional traditional hand-drawing and sculpture, plus courses that are not closely combined with commercial purposes such as painting and traditional crafts. Pure art courses mostly adopt traditional techniques. An art course in pure art course, that is, a course to recruit students to create art, allows and encourages students to combine traditional media with modern media.

2. Design: Design courses are mainly divided into visual communication, product industry, fashion, dynamic plane, film and television media, etc. According to the research of art study abroad and design study abroad, combined with the current situation and classification of art education in China.

Another concept of the division of American art and design majors can be:

1. Art theory:

(1) art history. Art history majors focus on the study of history and theory. After graduation, I mainly go to school teaching posts, clerical posts in cultural publishing institutions, museums, art galleries, galleries and auction houses. Students who are interested in becoming well-cultivated artists will also choose to study art history;

(2) Art education. This major, domestic parallel surveying and mapping, is a course of fine arts department in domestic normal universities. This major not only studies the necessary art practice courses, but also basically trains competent art educators, and needs to study a wide range of courses such as psychology, aesthetics and philosophy. Students are mainly engaged in the education industry after graduation;

(3) Artistic writing. As the name implies, the course of artistic writing is mainly to cultivate students' writing ability. In fact, it is to give students good conceptual ability and guidance and cultivate good writers of artistic articles. After graduation, I can enter the publishing media as a clerk, fashion magazines and professional journals to become me, or SOHO people.

(4) Art therapy. This major is an interdisciplinary subject of art, psychology and medicine. In fact, it is to train students to support their body and mind and treat their psychology through works of art. Many students who take this course have medical or psychological backgrounds;

(5) Art criticism. Students of art history attach importance to historical research, students of art writing attach importance to writing articles, and students of this course attach importance to logical analysis, material analysis and theoretical ability. Art criticism is a derivative of modern art, and the content of students' criticism is also visible modern art. After graduation, students embark on the post of criticizing modern art academically and commercially.

2. Pure art:

(1) drawings. Painting in a broad sense can be a process of leaving traces on a certain medium with the help of hands and machines. Therefore, the major of painting can include any media in a broad sense. This course encourages innovation and innovation in a broad sense, and demonstrates individual unique and valuable abilities by extraordinary means. In a narrow sense, this course has traditionally used only two hands to draw on two-dimensional gold, wood and soil, so in a narrow sense, traditional modeling methods and techniques also have room for display;

(2) oil painting. After nearly a century of exploration, China's oil painting course has achieved fruitful results. Foreign oil painting courses respect traditional exquisite skills, and at the same time encourage exploring new spaces, punching holes, sticking feathers on the canvas, and throwing the canvas off a cliff to leave traces, all of which may become world-wide artistic treasures;

(3) Handicraft (dealing with tangible materials such as gold, wood, water, fire and earth) A. Sculpture Sculpture-American sculpture courses Some students may even be transferred from the Department of Mathematics. Students who study sculpture courses can express their ideas through materials; B printmaking-printmaking course is divided into traditional printmaking forms (woodcut, copper plate and lithograph) and others (PS version and computer version); C three-dimensional-modeling-the name of this course sounds like three-dimensional animation, but in fact, students come up with an idea and then express it in three-dimensional space with the help of Jin Mu's fire, water and soil, which is similar to sculpture class.

3. Design:

(1) environmental design. A. architecture; B. urban planning and design; C. landscape design; D. public art design; E interior design (this course design has a lot of materials, price budget, actual workplace construction, etc. Which is more suitable for boys);

(2) Visual communication. A plane/plane design (requires a lot of knowledge, has a wide range of employment, and involves various two-dimensional plane and color designs based on various materials, which are divided into online and offline parts); B. VI design (comprehensive design focusing on square-inch logo and overall brand promotion); C. UI design (aesthetic design of webpage foreground, interactive design, human-computer interaction, which is very popular in China at present); D publication design (some Americans call it brochure design), which mainly designs the visual aspects, spine, book cover and printing of publications. If you enter it, it will be an interesting theme); E. packaging design (from material selection to technology to appearance design); F. illustration design;

(3) industrial design (that is, the details of specific products in the industry and all aspects of design). A. vehicle design; B. aviation design; C. product design; D. jewelry design; E. Clothing design (including urban clothing design, jewelry design, shoe design, makeup modeling and hairstyle design); F. mold design.

4. Film and TV media:

(1) Movies (including film production, director, actors/performances, production/film business management, photography, music, lighting, editing and post-special effects)

(2) Television (mainly including media art)

(3) Advertising (in fact, it is an independent extension of the film and television media course, including the understanding of advertising concepts and the production of advertising effects)

5. Drama art (mainly including director/screenwriter, stage performance, stage design and drama management)

6. Photography

7. Animation

(1) traditional animation (hand-drawn animation of key figures needs original painting, animation, cutting, background, modeling design, etc. )

(2) Two-dimensional animation (Flash and Disney's two-dimensional animation is a form that domestic friends contact more)

(3) Three-dimensional animation (there are many kinds of three-dimensional animation, which are also difficult to learn)

8. Entrepreneurial industry management (that is, art management major)

(1) art management

(2) Museum management