1953 The two schools merged their fine arts and design disciplines to form the Southwest Academy of Fine Arts, located in Huangjueping, Jiulongpo District, Chongqing, and the affiliated secondary fine arts school was established the following year.
1959 changed its name to sichuan fine arts institute, enrolled a four-year undergraduate course, and became one of the five national fine arts colleges at that time.
198 1 became the first batch of master's and bachelor's degree awarding units in China.
Sichuan fine arts institute has been running a school for 79 years. 1940 was founded in Chengdu by returned art educators Li Youxing and Shen, and 1950 was founded in Chongqing by the artistic backbone of Northwest Military and Political University.
1953 The two schools merged their fine arts and design disciplines to form the Southwest Academy of Fine Arts, located in Huangjueping, Jiulongpo District, Chongqing, and the affiliated secondary fine arts school was established the following year.
1959 changed its name to sichuan fine arts institute, enrolled a four-year undergraduate course, and became one of the five national fine arts colleges at that time.
198 1 became the first batch of master's and bachelor's degree awarding units in China.
Under the category of art, the school has four first-class disciplines: art, design, drama, film and television, and art theory, all of which recruit master students. During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, four first-level disciplines were listed as key disciplines in Chongqing for support and construction, among which fine arts and design were listed as first-level disciplines in Chongqing for support and construction. In the fourth round of national-level discipline evaluation, all four first-level disciplines were listed, among which fine arts got A- and design got B+, and the discipline strength was in the forefront of similar universities in Chongqing and the whole country.
The school has 22 undergraduate enrollment majors, among which painting, sculpture, animation, art design and industrial design are national specialties, while art, design, drama and film and television are Chongqing specialties. Painting, sculpture, product design, environmental design, visual communication design, fashion design, animation, drama, film and television art, architecture and art theory are all included in Chongqing.
Since the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", the school has established the orientation of "domestic first-class and internationally renowned" and the training goal of "high-quality, innovative and practical" artistic talents, adhered to this as the foundation, carried out teaching construction in an all-round way, and constructed a "big platform+multi-channel" talent training model. Facing all students, it has created four platforms: ideological and political humanities, professional education, practical teaching and information-based teaching, ensuring the overall quality of undergraduate education. In order to cultivate top-notch innovative talents in the arts, the school has set up multi-channel training programs such as "top-notch talent training", "characteristic studio training", "young artists staying behind" and "innovation and entrepreneurship education" to support outstanding students with potential to grow into talents. The ideological and political education of "Ideological and Political Education+Art" college students has achieved remarkable results, which was highly praised by Chen Miner, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and secretary of Chongqing Municipal Party Committee. Pay attention to the integration of professional education and innovation and entrepreneurship education, and get the title of "National Model University for Deepening Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform" and "National Typical Experience University for Innovation and Entrepreneurship"; Continue to build the brand of "open June" art exhibition, and be approved as the experimental area of aesthetic education reform in Chongqing; Building a characteristic campus, strengthening environmental education and good personnel training conditions have won wide acclaim from all walks of life. In 20 18, the school obtained excellent results in undergraduate teaching evaluation by the expert group of the Ministry of Education. The expert group unanimously affirmed that sichuan fine arts institute has a long history, outstanding achievements, numerous artistic talents and wide social influence. It is an art college with distinctive features and first-class level, and it is an art college of higher learning that can represent Chongqing and even China's art to the world stage.
In recent years, the school has adhered to the concept that artistic creation serves political construction and design practice serves local development, vigorously consolidated six provincial and ministerial-level scientific research platforms, including the Contemporary Visual Art Research Center and the Chongqing Key Base of Humanities and Social Sciences, and added major theme artistic creation research centers, design innovation research centers, and art and rural research institutes. It has achieved remarkable results in the creation of major themes, the improvement of urban cultural quality, and the involvement of art in rural revitalization.
One of the eight fine arts institutes, it has great strength in China.