Date: 22nd July-4th August, 2016

Campus: Xuhui Campus

Program Language: English

This Summer School Program, with various teaching approaches such as in-class instruction, field trip, case analysis and creative workshop, aims to cultivate participants’aesthetic taste and basic knowledge of Chinese art, develop their multi-cultural perspective, and to inspire their creativity. Artists and designers from China and other countries work together to launch this two-week Chinese Traditional and Contemporary Art Design Program. While learning from master artists and senior designers, participants will have the opportunity of accomplishing a design project from a Chinese Enterprise under the guidance of masters, and seeking possible career opportunities in China.

Learning efficiently. Through a two-week’s study, in general, participants will be able to complete a basic Chinese Calligraphy and Painting work independently. This owes to the unique teaching methods of masters of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting based on their years of research.

Inspiring creativity with the fusion of Chinese and Western Cultures. Art Masters and Senior Designers from China, Japan, and Europe merge the design cases of Traditional Chinese Art such as Chinese Calligraphy and Painting and Chinese Craft Works with Chinese Contemporary Art to help participants to absorb the essence of Oriental Art, and to apply it to their individual creative designs.

Emphasizing on experience teaching. Our program provides on-site practice and visiting activities to all kinds of traditional craft makings. While making Chinese crafts by themselves, participants will get an adequate understanding of Chinese Art Philosophy.

Engaging deeply in industry practice. Participants will have the opportunity to be instructed by industry mentors, and accomplish a real enterprise project. Various awards will be given to those whose creative solutions are adopted.

Professor Renzuo ZHAN, as the Program Director of this program, is a master of Chinese Flower-and Bird Painting. His works are collected by Chinese and foreign dignitaries, such as William Jefferson Clinton (42nd President of the USA), Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (famous Anti-apartheid Revolutionary Politician), Lee Kuan Yew (1st Prime Minister of Singapore), Nakasone Yasuhiro ( 71st – 73rd Prime Minister of Japan), Chen-Ning Franklin Yang (Winner of 57th Nobel Prize in Physics), etc. Since 1996, Professor Zhan has been teaching Chinese Painting on Education TV Channel. He has published dozens of teaching textbooks, among which Chinese Flower and Bird Painting Introduction won Outstanding Publication Award issued by China’s Ministry of Education and General Administration of Press and Publication. He is honored as ‘the most popular professor’ by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

This program consists of three modules: art school, art experience, and creative workshop.

1. Art school mainly embodies teaching and practice which are supplemented with art lectures. It provides courses like Chinese Flower-and-Bird Painting, Chinese Literati Painting, Chinese Calligraphy, Chinese Chromatics, Chinese Painting Sketch, etc. Participants will primarily get hold of the basics of Chinese Visual Art.
2. Art experience mainly embodies the practice of various art activities. It provides courses like Painting and Calligraphy Mounting, Culture Relic Appreciation, Traditional Architecture Visiting, Folk Arts Experiencing, etc.
3. Creative workshop embodies Chinese Creative Design Case Study and Creative Design with Chinese elements under the guidance of masters.

1. Renzuo ZHAN, Chinese, Professor of Chinese Painting, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2. Yan GE, Chinese, Professor of Arts and Archeology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
3. Qi WANG, Chinese, Lecturer of Chinese Painting, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
4. Katsuaki SAKATA, Japanese, Professor of Chromatics, Joshibi University of Arts and Design
5. Tomoko FUKUSHI, Japanese, Professor of Western Painting, Joshibi University of Arts and Design
6. Pierre-Armand FIEVET, French, Art Director of No.22 Shanghai Bund

Senior International Undergraduates in Creative, Design or related majors.

Sign in SJTU Foreign Students Apply (http://apply.sjtu.edu.cn/), choose Discovery Creativity through Chinese Art-Summer School Program, and submit required materials. An official notice will be sent to your email if your application succeeds.

Email: icci-summer@sjtu.edu.cn, shi.dong@sjtu.edu.cn

Tel: +86(21) 6293 3041

Address:

Room 431, No.1 Teaching Building

1954 Huashan Road, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Shanghai, 200030, P.R. China

Timetable (All courses subject to change without prior written notices.)

Qian Xuesen Library & Museum, China

Confucius Institute Office, China

Shanghai Regional Culture Research Institute, China

Joshibi University of Arts and Design, Japan