For high school students and college students who want to apply for studying in American art, they often don't know how to locate and choose the right university, whether to study in a comprehensive university or a pure art college. For students with low language scores, can they open the door to studying in American art?
So today, please follow Bian Xiao to learn more about the art circle of studying abroad in the United States. Maybe you will find a study pass in your American art circle!
Why did you choose to study art in an American school?
1. The United States is a country where world cultures converge. It allows many different forms of cultural and artistic integration, so it can provide strong support for more artistic types.
The reason why the United States can tolerate and integrate various cultures and arts is that the United States itself is a unique country composed of many nationalities, including Jews, Caucasians, China people, African-Americans, Hispanics, etc., which provides a big stage for the artistic integration and development of various races and nations.
New york is not only the art center of the United States, but also the art center of the world: here, you will inadvertently find a Hua Dan dressed in Chinese Peking Opera, which is perfectly described by an African-American artist in the form of oil painting, but also incorporates unprecedented artistic elements of blending Chinese and Western, impacting the vision of pedestrians. This multi-cultural and multi-element artistic impact and shock can be seen everywhere in new york. With such a tense artistic atmosphere, it is no wonder that international students admire and yearn for studying in American art so much!
2. The concepts of liberal arts education and professional education.
How to understand these two words? Simply put, liberal arts education is to cultivate a person how to dabble in more knowledge. For example, if you are an art student, you are not limited to developing your own professional skills. People who paint can paint, and people who design cars can design cars. American education wants you to paint, but you should also study art history, so that you can know why you paint, and what is the difference between ancient painting and modern painting. Of course, liberal arts education in a broader sense is to cultivate you into a morally comprehensive student who can communicate, be international, understand humanities, natural sciences, sociology and be familiar with logical reasoning. Only in this way can you better integrate into the society, lay a solid and broad academic and work foundation for you, and engage in anything in the future.
The concept of "vocational education", for example, if you take a design class, you should study the principle and application of technology in depth and design the project in combination with your study. The internship opportunities provided by the school ensure that you have enough internship experience to get a job. Moreover, many schools have established cooperative relations with companies and institutions in major industries, further ensuring the possibility of students' career development.
It is this "one breadth and one depth" education that keeps the United States leading and excellent, thus dominating the international education field. Compared with other countries' conservative educational ideas and backward educational forms and means, American education can attract students who love learning and those who don't. Any soul can have the talent to create art!
America's strong economic foundation is the cradle of art.
In the 20th century, the American economy advanced by leaps and bounds, and it was in a leading position in the world. Only by solving the problem of food and clothing can the United States develop its artistic career.
The foundation system, museum system, art organization system and exhibition business activities in the United States all promoted the development of traditional art, and with the international turmoil and changes in the early 20th century, the United States attracted and accepted most European artists, and the world art center moved from Europe to North America, to be precise, the United States.
Although Asia and the two river basins, Aegean civilization, Roman Empire and European countries all made outstanding artistic achievements in the early days, great changes have taken place in the development of art with the change of time and the shift of the focus of the world economy. 90% of the cartoons we see today are from the United States and Japan, which shows the direct relationship between economic and artistic development.
An overview of American art majors
Overview of art
1, art study abroad
It is pointed out that the country has studied undergraduate, postgraduate or doctoral degrees in pure art, design, music and dance.
2. Classification of art majors
A. Design category-practical art
visual communication
Graphic design, interactive design, photography, illustration
Product category
Industrial design, product design, furniture design
Fashion category
Clothing design, jewelry design, textile design, window design.
Architecture class
Architectural design, interior design, landscape design (environmental art)
Film and television category
Movies, special effects and multimedia, animation
B. Pure art-plastic arts
Painting, oil painting, sculpture, ceramics, installation art, performance art
How to choose institutions?
There are different types of art colleges in American universities. Art colleges include professional colleges of pure art, and comprehensive universities also have art colleges or departments. So which college to choose is also the primary concern of international students.
Pure art college
Rhode Island School of Design, school of visual arts, Savannah College of Art and Design, california institute of the arts, Cleveland College of Art, etc. All belong to pure art colleges. Because it is an art major, it will be more detailed in the professional setting than in a comprehensive university, and it will be more clear when choosing a major.
But the cost of studying abroad is generally higher than that of comprehensive universities. Because art colleges are not comprehensive universities, compared with comprehensive universities, they have the attention of the famous USnews comprehensive ranking. China students and parents may not be particularly familiar with pure art colleges, so they can refer to the ranking of art majors when choosing schools, such as the ranking of graphic design majors by USnews.
Art colleges or majors under a comprehensive university.
For comprehensive universities in the United States, they are well known by students and parents because of their annual USnews ranking.
In fact, comprehensive universities are not inferior to pure art colleges in the ranking of art majors. For example, Yale ranks high in art majors, and art ranks first in the United States. Graphic design Rhode Island School of Design ranked first, and Yale ranked third.
The future development of comprehensive universities may be more diversified than that of pure art colleges. They can choose engineering to study the professional fields they want to combine, and their contacts will be slightly more diversified than those of art colleges.
However, because not all comprehensive universities have art majors, the ranking and major setting need to be studied before making a choice.
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