Dome above

-- Zhou Shichao and his students oil painting exhibition

Dome, in this case, refers to autistic conservative academic painting teaching. "Academicians" have always followed a rigid and old-fashioned teaching model, which to a great extent restricts students' creative thinking. For a long time, the "academic school" paid too much attention to the teaching and training of techniques, and was relatively short of the expression of subjective emotions. They often measured the merits and demerits of works by the level of skills, and took this as the main purpose of teaching. Under the guidance of this teaching concept, students are confined to the imitation of tradition and the simple copy of objective objects; In this process, they learned certain painting skills, but lost the ability to grasp the emotion of the work. Artistic creation is never limited to the observation of objects, but lies in the perception and expression of emotions. My understanding of painting is also based on this. The purpose of painting teaching is to lay a good foundation for students to engage in professional development in the future. Is it the technical foundation of describing objective objects? Or a creative foundation? This has to be clear. Creativity is the life of art works, and painting technology serves artists' emotional communication. Therefore, it is very important to strengthen students' subjective emotional experience and perception.

Zhou Shichao took a photo with the students

In painting, color is the best expression of emotion. Cezanne once said, "Color is the expression of thought, not the result of some technical level or observation. By contrast, it is more profound and directly connected with the spirit..." Today is shown in design institute, a student's painting works, I advocate individual subjective emotion in the teaching, the creative ideas and painting form has obvious difference with traditional "academic", and hope that through this painting exhibition, make the students enjoy to follow his own feelings to create pleasant, And on the road of artistic exploration to break through all shackles, beyond the dome, to achieve self....