What is it about studying abroad in American art?

This led me to be invited to the Beijing Broadcasting Education Brand column "Face to Face in Studying Abroad" on October 5th, 20 16. Fine arts can be divided into three categories. The first category is visual art, including sketch painting, sculpture, architecture photography, film printing, and the second category is auditory art, including music, drama, oral literature, etc. The third category is the performing arts, through the form of performance, but both have visual and auditory factors. Art originates from life above life. In European countries, the traditional pursuit of beauty and the expression of human wisdom are also emphasized. On the basis of tradition, American art pays more attention to practical application. As an immigrant country, America's long-standing culture, tolerant spirit, free creative atmosphere and good intellectual property protection are all factors that promote and ensure that this country's art can lead the way. Therefore, high-quality art colleges also attract international students from all over the world to study. According to the Open Door data released by IEE supported by the State Council Education Office, more than 300,000 China students went to study in the United States on 20 15 * *, of which 5.6% chose art-related majors, and about17,000 China people studied art-related majors in the United States. The layout of American art industry presents the following characteristics: the east coast is a gathering place for fashion design, with a large number of fashion and design enterprises and artists; The West Coast is famous for movie animation, such as Hollywood and Disney. The central region is famous for its publishing industry.

Art colleges in the United States can be divided into two categories. One is a comprehensive university, which has an art college, offering art projects from undergraduate, master to doctoral, bachelor of design/animation art, bachelor of science in art history, master of design art, master of music, master of music education, doctor of music or directly obtaining a doctorate in the art field. The other is a specialized art college with various names. If you don't know the situation, you will think it is a diploma workshop, such as Pratt Institute and Parsons Institute of New Design. In fact, people are really famous American art schools, which specialize in cultivating artistic talents and providing graduate degrees from undergraduate to master's degree. Such as Bachelor of Design/Animation Art, Bachelor of Design Art, Bachelor of Science in Art History, Master of Design Art, Master of Music, Master of Music Education, etc. In the art schools of comprehensive universities, undergraduates are trained according to the American general education concept, so freshmen and sophomores majoring in art will also study humanities, science and art courses according to the requirements of the school, and juniors and sophomores will study specialized art courses. The majors and courses provided by professional art colleges are all around art majors, so students will study art-related majors in an all-round way when they are freshmen and sophomores, with only a small number of humanities courses such as English writing and art history, and a large proportion of courses in junior and senior are about learning studios. In comprehensive universities, the proportion of studios is very low, and more is limited to theoretical study, such as drawing history. In a comprehensive university, you can cultivate your interests widely, and you can choose such things as art+management, art +CS, art+anything, but professional schools do not have this advantage, because the majors and courses offered are all focused on art, so you can imagine that professional art schools, where a large number of talents who love art gather together, have a stronger artistic atmosphere, which is more conducive to the cultivation of creativity and artistic thinking, while comprehensive universities are not so obvious. These are all their own characteristics. Can't say which is good and which is bad. You can only choose what you like. Because these two types of schools have trained a large number of well-known artistic talents.

What is the difference between a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Arts/Science and a Master of Fine Arts and a Master of Arts/Science? There will be a lot of studios to study in the previous course, and the proportion of studios in the latter course will be less and less, and there will be more and more theoretical study. When applying for an art major, in addition to providing transcripts, language scores, proof of funds, certificates and other contents, you also need to provide a portfolio. Portfolio plays a very important role in the application for studying abroad in art. Some people say that it will play more than 50%, which shows its importance. According to my years of application experience, I must not ignore the thinking of students studying in the United States, pay too much attention to the portfolio, pay a lot of money for help, and ignore the overall consistency of documents, backgrounds and works, which will eventually affect the application results. In the application for studying abroad in art, the language requirement is not very high, unlike the starting price of business is 100. Some schools also need to submit SAT for undergraduate application for art study; Because of the applicant's age and experience, he will pay more attention to the students' past achievements and interest in art, and the professionalism of the portfolio is not a special consideration. On the contrary, the portfolio is much more important for postgraduate application, because it is the concentrated expression of the applicant's four-year application for five years (architecture), while art postgraduates, like going to school and working, learn to improve themselves by participating in projects and making works, so professionalism will be a key assessment factor. Graduate students majoring in art are often reluctant to take the GRE/GMAT exam. For majors in American universities, GRE/GMAT is generally needed if the project is not just about studying art, such as painting history research, art management, architecture, graphic design, etc. The portfolio can be submitted through a third-party platform recognized by American universities, such as slideroom, and can also be mailed to VCD or uploaded to Youtube (do you want to swear? ), depending on the school official website. Of course, with more and more international students coming to China, many American universities will personally come to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou for interviews, such as Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Boston University Conservatory of Music, Manhattan Conservatory of Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Johns Hopkins University Peabody Conservatory of Music. It is much better to attend the interview of the school admissions officer in person than to record a video, so you can show yourself better. However, it should be reminded that this activity was organized by a domestic company, and the number of interviews was very large. Please register as soon as possible. Please pay attention to the website (http://www.usaschoolsofmusic.org/xxjj/hpjsxy/) for details. Studying abroad in art is the pursuit of beauty. Such high-end things must cost a lot of money, and the tuition budget of 60 thousand yuan/year is more suitable. However, it should be pointed out that American art majors also have great opportunities to get scholarships. For some people who are interested in art, but because of the special national conditions such as setting majors in advance in the college entrance examination, they can apply for cross-majors. For example, there is a postgraduate program for architecture majors, which provides projects for people who are not architecture majors before but have a certain foundation.

Studying in American art is a big topic, and each sub-project can be introduced by writing an article. Here, I'm just talking in general terms to give you a general impression. Finally, I summed up one of the factors that American art programs attract international students from China and even the world: apart from the cultivation of artistic skills of artistic talents, I pay more attention to the cultivation of artistic innovative thinking of an artistic professional. This cultivation is worth learning. This kind of training is not to tell us to cultivate artistic innovative thinking, but to moisten things quietly and infiltrate into the usual teaching activities.