Department of Oil Painting has a body of faculty of successful and practicing artists who inspire student's individual vision and nurture their technical mastery. This team has 2 professors, 5 associate professors, 1 assistant professor and 1 teaching assistant.

The main focuses of the department are on the trainings of basic painting techniques and the development of a strongly focused, individual painting direction. The department inherits the tradition of the European oil paintings and fully understands the methodology of the painting because of the advantage of being located in Shanghai - a metropolitan city. Students are encouraged to investigate new ideas and approaches that go beyond more recent conventional and historic painting styles. The importance of their education received here is to search for painting forms that arise from personal sources and demonstrate an intelligent awareness of what has come before, and which seek new expressive and creative ground. The educational objectives of our department are to train our students to be professional artists and art researchers as well as active participates engaged in the management of international arts markets and communication of culture and arts.

Length of Study
Undergraduate Courses, 4 years; Master Candidate Courses, 2 and half years
Discipline of Oil Paintings

Academic Objectives:
Students are expected to systematically understand and master the methodology and theory of oil painting. They should also be able to do teaching, researching and producing art independently upon graduation.

Course Requirements:
Sketch, Composition of Painting, Figure Painting, Landscape Painting, Studio Work, Theory on Techniques, Chinese and Western Art History, Printmaking