1. Introduction to American Art Education

Art education in the United States focuses on practicality and economic benefits. Some universities in the United States will count the influence of graduates as artists in society and the impact of their artistic works. The economic value generated is the status of sales of works after graduation. American design education is closely linked to America's booming industry. The world-famous Art Center College of Design has always been in a leading position in the world because of the support of America's strong industry. At present, neither China nor the United States has unified official concepts of art classification and curriculum standards. The entire American curriculum relies on the strong industrial power of the United States, and American animation courses are also in the upper reaches because of the strength of the Hollywood film industry.

2. Major Classification

There are thousands of colleges and universities in different continents in the United States. Most of these colleges have art and design departments. There are so many There are so many courses in colleges and universities. Although there is no unified standard, the basic concepts of American art and design majors can be roughly seen.

1. Fine Arts: The diploma obtained by a master's degree in fine arts is the Master of Fine Arts, which is also the MFA. Pure art courses include pure two-dimensional traditional hand-painting, sculpture, plus painting, traditional crafts and other courses that are not closely integrated with commercial purposes. Most of the pure art courses use traditional techniques. An art course among pure art courses, that is, a course that recruits students to create art, allows and encourages students to combine traditional media with modern media.

2. Design: Design courses are mainly distinguished according to the media used and the content and methods of expression. They can be divided into visual communication, product industry, fashion, dynamic plane, film and television media and other courses. Based on the research on art study abroad and design study abroad, combined with the current situation of domestic art education and classification.

Another concept of dividing American art and design majors can be:

1. Art theory:

(1) Art history. The art history major focuses on the study of history and theory. After graduation, the main destinations are teaching positions in schools, clerkships in cultural publishing institutions, positions in museums, art galleries, galleries, and auction houses. Students who are interested in becoming artists with profound knowledge and accumulated experience will also choose to major in art history;

(2) Art education. The domestic parallel mapping of this major is the courses of art departments in domestic normal colleges. This major not only learns necessary art practice courses, but basically cultivates competent art educators. It requires studying a wide range of categories such as psychology, aesthetics, philosophy, etc. Courses, students will mainly work in the education industry after graduation;

(3) Art writing. As the name suggests, the art writing course is mainly to cultivate students' writing skills. In fact, it is to provide students with good conceptual abilities and guidance, and to cultivate students who are good at writing art articles. After graduation, they can enter the publishing media as a clerk, or they can enter fashion magazines and If you become a member of the professional magazine circle, you can also be a SOHO group;

(4) Art therapy. This major is an interdisciplinary subject of art, psychology and medicine. It actually trains students to nourish their body and mind through artistic works and achieve psychological treatment. Many students taking this course have medical or psychology backgrounds;

(5) Art criticism. Students in art history value historical research, students in art writing value writing articles, and students in this course value logical analysis, material analysis, and theoretical abilities. The major of art criticism is a derivative of modern art. The content that students criticize is also visible modern art. After graduation, students also go to criticism jobs in the academic and commercial exports of modern art.

2. Pure art:

(1) Drawing.

Broadly speaking, the painting major can be a process of leaving traces on a certain medium with the assistance of hands and machines. Therefore, the painting major can include any media and media in a broad sense. This course encourages innovation and innovation in a broad sense. Unique and extraordinary means of demonstrating one's unique and valuable abilities. In a narrow sense, this course only uses hands to paint on two-dimensional planes of metal, wood, and earth. Therefore, in a narrow sense, there is room for display of traditional modeling methods and techniques;

(2) Oil painting Painting. The course of oil painting has been explored in China for nearly a century and has initially seen many results. Foreign oil painting courses respect traditional and exquisite skills, while encouraging the exploration of new spaces. Perforating holes on the canvas, attaching feathers, and throwing the canvas off the cliff to leave traces may all become world-wide art treasures;

(3) Manual craft (processing tangible materials such as gold, wood, water, fire, earth, etc.) a. Sculpture sculpture---Some students in sculpture courses in the United States may even transfer from the mathematics department to study sculpture courses Students mainly express their ideas through materials; b. Printmaking---Printmaking courses are divided into traditional printmaking forms (woodblock, copperplate, stone) and others (PS version, computer version), etc.; c. Three Dimensional-- -The name of this course sounds similar to three-dimensional animation, but in fact, students come up with an idea in their minds, and then express this idea in a three-dimensional space using methods such as metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. It is similar to the sculpture course. .

3. Design:

(1) Environmental design. a. Architecture; b. Urban planning and design; c. Landscape design; d. Public art design; e. Interior design (this course covers a lot of materials, price budgets, actual workplace construction, etc., and is more suitable for boys) ;

(2) Visual communication. a. Graphic/graphic design (requires a lot of knowledge, and has a wide range of employment opportunities, involving a variety of two-dimensional graphic, text, and color designs based on various materials, divided into online and offline parts); b. VI design (comprehensive design that condenses the corporate spirit into a square logo and overall brand promotion); c. UI design (beautiful design of the web front desk, interactive design, human-computer interaction, this major is currently very popular in China); d. Publication design (some Americans call it Brochure design, which mainly designs all visual aspects of publications, such as spines, book covers, printing, etc. It is an interesting subject if you get into it); e. Packaging design (from material selection to process, to appearance design); f. illustration design;

(3) Industrial design (that is, all details and all aspects of design of specific products in the industry). a. Vehicle design; b. Aviation design; c. Product design; d. Jewelry design; e. Fashion design (including fashion design, jewelry design, shoe design, makeup styling and hair design); f. Mold design .

4. Film and television media:

(1) Film (including film production, director, actor/performance, production/film business management, photography, music, lighting, editing, post-production Special effects

(2) Television (mainly includes media art)

(3) Advertising (actually an independent extension of a branch of the film and television media course, including the understanding of advertising concepts and Production of advertising effects)

5. Dramatic arts (mainly including director/screenwriter, stage performance, stage design, theater management)

6. Photography

7 . Animation

(1) Traditional animation (hand-drawn key animation requires original painting, animation, line trimming, background, modeling design, etc.)

(2) Two-dimensional animation (Flash Disney’s two-dimensional animation is the form that domestic friends are most exposed to)

(3) Three-dimensional animation (the categories of three-dimensional animation are very wide and difficult to learn)

8. Entrepreneurial Industry Management (also known as Art Management Major)

(1) Art Management

(2) Museum Management