About Us
About Us
The Cradle of Fine Arts in Taiwan
The Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), was founded in August 1947.Many famous artists had been associated with the Department, including Liao Chi-chun, Chen Huei-kun, Pu Hsin-yu, Huang Jun-bi, Chang Yi-shiung, Chu Teh-chun, Li Shih-chiao, Chin Chin-po, Sun Chia-chin, Lin Yu-shan, Sun To-tzu, etc. The Department has a pioneering role in early Taiwan art education and continues to nurture the talents of contemporary arts.
Since its inception, the Department has dedicated to train art professionals, promoting local aesthetic education and furthering the careers of Taiwanese art and artists on the international scene.
The Department continues to develop a balanced and comprehensive programme, bridging traditional cultures and current international trends with an all-inclusive approach to the arts. The Department aims to lead art professional to be better equipped by combining a solid foundation of academic tradition with an innovative vision.
In response to economic growth and the changing demands of society, the Department has complete a system of undergraduate, M.A., M.F.A., and Ph. D. programmes. Teaching from the foundation of field practice to theoretical construction of interdisciplinary research and specialization is aim of design of our curriculum. The programme expanded unites as following:
Degree Programs
Undergraduate Programme
- Chinese Painting
- Western Painting
M.A. Programme | M.F.A Program
- Chinese Painting
- Western Painting
- Art Education and Art Administration
- Art History and Theory
Graduate Program in English
Ph. D. Program
- Art Creation and Theory Stream
- Ink Painting
- Painting
- Technology of Art Restoration and Conservation
- Art Education Stream and Art Administration and Management Stream
- Art Theory Stream
- Oriental Art History
- Occidental Art History
- Art Criticism
- New Media Arts and Technology and Art Direction
Part-Time Graduate Program(for Taiwanese students)
- Chinese Painting
- Western Painting
- Art Administration and Management
Facilities
The Department of Fine Arts, NTNU is located at the crossroad of Heping East Road and Shida Road. It is a detached seven-storey building. The Dechun Gallery occupies nearly 400 square meters.It is where we hold annual exhibitions for student creative awards, graduation and invitation exhibitions of local and overseas well-known artists. Beside the lower gallery, there is an art space leading by the glass stairway downward for students to do experimental art shows. The atrium is newly paved with wood planks and installed with cafe tables for students and teachers to rest or gather for discussion.
All the mapping and facilities of each classroom are designed according to the demands of different courses, including drawing, ceramic art, sculpture, printmaking, ink painting, oil painting, art theory and audio-visual instruction. We also have rooms for graduation projects and a communal study room for research students.
The Department library is located at the second floor of the building with the large collection of books, audio-visual materials, picture albums, symposium papers and postgraduate theses. The library maintains a collection of 11,160 books in Chinese, 13,718 books in foreign languages, 49 kinds of current periodicals, 1,175 bound volumes of periodicals, 2,200 items of audio-visual materials, and the collection continues to grow stably.
Within the library, there is a separate room, Chunweng Room, named after the master artist and director of the Department, Huang Chun-bi, which conserves art encyclopedia, rare edition picture albums and reproduced masterpieces of Chinese painting and calligraphy for in-house study. A photo copier, a copy stand, scanners and computer equipment are also available for research survey and image data collection.