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The Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (TJ Arts; ) is a public art college in
Tianjin Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popu ...
, China. The academy is sponsored by the Tianjin Municipal People's Government. The Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts was founded in 1906 with the original name of Peiyang Female Normal School (), which has a long history and it is also a comprehensive college providing a wide variety of subjects. It is the most important arts education center in the north part of China.


History

The Beiyang Women's Normal School was founded in 1906 by
Lü Bicheng Lü Bicheng (, also known as P. C. Lee i-Cheng Lee or Pi-Cheng Li Alice (P.) Lee or Alice Pichen Lee: 1883–1943) was a Chinese writer, activist, newspaper editor, poet and school founder. She has been mentioned as one of the top four women in ...
although Fine Art was not established at the school until 1926. In 1929 it became the ''Hebei Provincial Women's Normal Academy''. In 1949 men were admitted to the facility and it was renamed the ''Henei Normal Arts Academy''. In 1959 the part that dealt specifically with Fine Art became the ''Henei Academy of Fine Art''.


Description

The academy consists of the Arts Design School, Plastic Arts School and Contemporary Art School. Also, there are the Departments of Chinese Painting, Art History, Art Theory and the Adult Education School. The academy offers 17 sub-majors including Chinese Painting, Oil Painting, Graphic Art, Sculpture, Visual Arts Design, Decorating Design, Industrial Design, Environmental Design, Fashion Design, Dyeing and Weaving Design, Arts Education, History and Theory, Multimedia, Digital-media, Photograph Arts, Public Arts, Compositive Arts, etc. The academy has sufficient teaching staff. There are a group of art educators and famous scholars who have a high reputation both at home and abroad. Now the academy has 367 art teaching and administrative staff, among whom are nearly 200 full-time teachers including 95 professors and associate professors. TAFA has 3391 undergraduate students and 259 graduate students.


Notable alumni

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Ren Han Ren Han (; born February 27, 1984, in Tianjin) is a Chinese contemporary artist. Biography Ren Han was born in 1984 in Tianjin, China. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2006, then he graduated ...
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Shi Pingmei Pingmei Shi or Shi Pingmei (石评梅; 20 September 1902 – 30 September 1928) was a Chinese writer. She was considered as one of the four women famous for their contributions to modern Chinese literature in the early Republic of China. Life ...
* Yan Binghui * Yueqi Zhang


External links


Official website (Chinese)


References

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