Tsinghua Fine Arts Department, formerly known as the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts, is a national key liberal arts university. According to the enrollment batches of candidates' native places, Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts enrolls students in Shanxi, Heilongjiang, Sichuan, Jiangxi and other places according to the first batch of undergraduate courses, so we usually say that Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts is a university.

Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts generally refers to Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts. Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts, formerly known as the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts, was founded in 1956, and is the first advanced design art college in China. 1999165438+1On October 20th, the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts was merged into Tsinghua University, so it was renamed Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts.

On June 1956, the State Council officially approved the establishment of the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts. On June 1 1, the inauguration ceremony of the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts was held in Baiduizi outside Fuchengmen, Beijing. The college has three departments of dyeing and weaving art, ceramic art and decoration design, and two teaching and research departments of painting and * * *.

1957, the college is under the leadership of the Ministry of Culture. The Central Academy of Arts and Crafts was merged into the college and changed into a research room. Add interior decoration department.

1958, the department of decoration design was changed to the department of decorative painting, and three professional studios, namely commercial art, book binding and decorative painting (later changed to mural painting), were established.

1960 interior decoration department was renamed as architectural decoration department.

1975 the department of special arts and crafts was established, and the department of architectural decoration was renamed the department of arts and crafts.

1984 set up the department of fashion design; On the basis of the Department of Industrial Fine Arts, the Interior Design Department and the Industrial Design Department were established respectively.

65438-0997 Entrusted the College to draw up the undergraduate professional catalogue of the Ministry of Education and put forward the name of the subject of "Art Design".

1999165438+1October 20th, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts was merged into Tsinghua University and renamed as Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts. Cancel the basic department and the decorative arts department, and set up the painting department, sculpture department and arts and crafts department. The Department of Arts and Crafts was renamed the Department of Art and Design.