The history of the formation of art education in Shanghai in the first quarter of the XX century

Abstract

The object of research of the article is the process of development of art education in the Chinese city of Shanghai at the beginning of the XX century. The subject of the study is the contribution of educational institutions to the cultural life of the city, whose activities were aimed at training masters in the field of fine arts. The purpose of the article was to identify a unique scenario for the development of art education in the Chinese metropolis, in the formation of which the creative traditions of not only the Celestial Empire, but also European countries, including Russia, were included. The article pays special attention to art societies, whose activities in the first quarter of the XX century were particularly active and focused both on the development of art education and the organizing of creative expositions. For the objectivity of the results obtained, unique documents were used in the study, including archival sources and retrospective literature, which determines the scientific novelty of the work. Shanghai in the first quarter of the XX century became a "pioneer" in the formation of the modern system of art education in the country. Under the influence of Western culture, the creative education of Shanghai has undergone profound transformations in a very short time, changing the artistic life of the country, bringing genre, thematic, technological into it.