Nanjing Arts Institute
About Nanjing Arts Institute
Located near the promenade of Qinhuai River,the mother river of Nanjing, Nanjing Arts Institute is the only comprehensive arts institute in Jiangsu Province. Nanjing Arts institute is also the earliest art academy established in China. The history of Nanjing Arts Institute can be traced back to the year of 1912 when Mr. Liu Haisu, the founder of art education in China, and several of his friends first set up Shanghai Chinese Art College, and later changed its name into Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts in 1930. Mr. Cai Yuanpei, the Chairman of the Board of the school, wrote the lyrics for the school song, and also made the motto and the regulation for the school. In 1922 Yan Liang, another famous artist of the times, set up Suzhou Fine Arts college in Suzhou. Both Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts of and Suzhou Fine Arts College, the earliest private art schools in China amalgamated with the department of fine arts and music of Shandong University in the nation-wide adjustment of colleges and faculties in 1952 and changed its name into East China Arts College. The new site for the college was in Sheqiao, Wuxi, Jiangs ……
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