Wulin Academy of Arts

The Wulin Academy of Arts (Chinese: 武林書畫院) is a learned society and independent research institute for Chinese arts and culture studies, located on the shores of the West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. The academy was named after Wulin, the ancient name of Hangzhou.[1] It was founded in 1995 but, with antecedents dating back to the Southern Song dynasty.

Wulin Academy of Arts
武林書畫院
Formation1995 (1995)
TypeHonorary society and independent research institute
HeadquartersHangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
President
Chen Xiaofeng
Websitewww.wulin.ac.cn
South entrance of the academy, Hangzhou

History

From the 1980s, a group of artists and scholars from China Academy of Art, Zhejiang University, Nankai University and Xiling Seal Art Society had discussed the idea of forming an independent institution for Chinese arts and culture studies that echoes to the Imperial Art Academy (御前畫院) founded by Emperor Gaozong 800 years ago on the lakeside of Wulin (the ancient name of Hangzhou),[2][3] and also, reconnecting to the Wulin School that was founded in the Ming dynasty by Lan Ying.[4]

In April 1989, Ms. Zhang Songying, the founder of the Wulin Academy of Arts, raised funds and went to Hangzhou to contract for the operation of Hangzhou Hushu Society of Arts, laying the foundation for the establishment of the Academy. In 1995, with the financial support of Hangzhou Hushu Society of Arts, The Dazhen National Institute was established at the antechamber of the Imperial Wenlan Library on the island of Solitary Hill (孤山) as the predecessor of Wulin Academy. In 1997, the archaeological excavation and restoration at the Imperial Library began and the Institute moved out, cooperated with the Government of Gongshu District and merged into Hangzhou Hushu Society of Arts.[5] In the same year, members of Dazhen Institute established the Hangzhou Meilan Society of Arts to operate independently of the government. The influence of the Meilan Society had grown for rebuilding the disintegrated tradition of Chinese art that had been greatly damaged by the havoc of the New Culture Movement in the 1910s and ten years' Cultural Revolution. In 2000, the government suspended Meilan Society's cultural operation license for 'political' reasons to suppress independent cultural studies and some of its members fled to Europe and America for extrication.[6]

On May 13, 2002, the former Dazhen National Institute, Hangzhou Hushu Society of Arts and Hangzhou Meilan Society of Arts formally merged and renamed to Wulin Academy of Arts. In 2006, the academy relocated to the shores of West Lake where its first institute was established.[7]

Research institutes

Wulin Academy of Arts covers three major academic divisions:[8]

Painting, calligraphy and epigraphy
Chinese Studies and music
Architecture, mural and sculpture

Activities
  • Guqin Concert at Wulin Academy[9]
  • Spring and Summer Activities[10]
  • Wulin Academy and Zhejiang Provincial Sports Bureau jointly established the Art Institute of Zhejiang Provincial Sports Bureau[11]

References
  1. "武林書畫院簡介". Zhejiang Provincial Political Consultative Conference.
  2. "南宋画院の詩書画: 三絶の視点から". The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mie University.
  3. Michael Sullivan(1999), "The Arts of China", Vol.8, 45 pp. 179-183. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21877-9
  4. Ding Wei(1998), "China & The World Cultural Exchange", China Association for Diplomatic Exchanges. ISSN 1004-5015, CN:11-3005/G0
  5. "文澜阁历史沿革，1996". China National Knowledge Infrastructure.
  6. "Religious Persecution in Communist China". CIA FOIA. Archived from the original on January 23, 2017.
  7. Tim Cooke(2010), "The New Cultural Atlas of China", pp. 108. Marshall Cavendish Reference. ISBN 978-0-7614-7875-1
  8. "Research institutes". Wulin Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on 19 April 2021.
  9. "The Guqin Recital on the Shores of West Lake". Wulin Academy of Arts. 17 July 2018.
  10. "武林書畫院夏日課時". Wulin Academy of Arts. 1 August 2017.
  11. "The Establishment Ceremony of the Art Institute of Zhejiang Provincial Sports Bureau". General Administration of Sports of China. 13 December 2013. Archived from the original on 26 March 2020.

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