The teaching of oil painting department has always been centered around the "four traditions" and "three concepts" of the college. The academic proposition of teaching and creation is "based on life, concerned about society, studying nature, combining Chinese and western".

The Department of Oil Painting mainly trains senior applied professionals who have the ability of artistic creation and teaching research of painting (oil painting) and can engage in teaching, creation and research in the fields of culture and art, education, design, research, publishing and management units.