The Academy of Fine Arts of Linyi University was founded in 1972. There are 7 undergraduate majors and 3 Sino-Korean cooperative majors in fine arts, environmental design, visual communication design, product design, animation, calligraphy and costume design.
At present, there are six teaching departments, namely, Basic Department, Chinese Painting Department, Oil Painting Department, Design Department, Animation Department and Calligraphy Department, and six scientific research teams, namely, art theory, calligraphy theory, Chinese painting creation, oil painting creation, regional art and social service. Fine arts is a key discipline of Linyi University and a pilot major of fine arts teaching in colleges and universities all over the country.
The design laboratory was rated as a provincial demonstration laboratory; Animation major is a comprehensive professional reform project of Autodesk Company of the Ministry of Education. Calligraphy law major was awarded the National Demonstration Base of Calligraphy Education and Training. The college has 87 full-time teachers, including 8 professors, 25 associate professors, 9 doctoral students/kloc-0, and 2027 students.
The Academy of Fine Arts has successively established Wang Xizhi Calligraphy Art Research Institute and Yimeng Folk Craft Research Institute. The healthy and rapid development of Xizhi Calligraphy Institute named by Linyi Municipal People's Government has opened a new chapter in calligraphy teaching and research.
What is a university?
The scientific name is ordinary colleges and universities, and it is an organization with unique functions. It is an institution of higher learning that inherits, studies, integrates and innovates advanced academic knowledge, and is interrelated with social, economic and political institutions. It is not only the product of the development of human culture to a certain stage, but also a unique university culture gradually formed on the basis of long-term school-running practice and historical accumulation.
Universities have a history of thousands of years, which can be traced back to its birth, mainly from Germany, Britain and other countries.