History
In 1928, the National Academy of Art (國立藝術院) was founded as the first comprehensive art academy in China on the bank of the West Lake in Hangzhou by the eminent educator Cai Yuanpei(蔡元培) with Mr. Lin Fengmian(林風眠). It takes integrating eastern and western arts, creating arts of the time and developing Chinese culture as its tenets. Over the decades, the location of the Academy has been changed ten times and its name changed six times, as follows:
- 1928 - National Academy of Art (國立藝術院).
- 1929 - Hangzhou National College of Art (國立杭州藝術專科學校).
- 1938 - National College of Art (國立藝術專科學校).
- 1950 - East-China Campus of Central Academy of Fine Arts (中央美術學院華東分院).
- 1958 - Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (浙江美術學院).
- 1993 - China Academy of Art (中國美術學院).
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