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Dong Shuai
Karthiyaini Devarajoo

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The scope of professional definition of this research is the painting major numbered 130402 in the Undergraduate Professional Catalogue of General Colleges and Universities issued by the Ministry of Education of China in 2021. Painting majors include oil paintings, murals Printmaking and many other types of paintings. Prior to this, the majors of Chinese universities were called painting major, Mural Painting major, Printmaking major, etc.According to the new regulations of the Ministry of Education of China, the above old majors have been merged into the painting major.The title of the course in this study comes from the Decision of the Ministry of Education on Approving the 2018 National Teaching Achievement Award Projects issued by the text number: Teacher [2018] No. 21.In 2018, the second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award issued by the Ministry of Education of China to the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. This award is the highest award given by the Ministry of Education of China for curriculum research in this field in recent years. Therefore, starting from 2018, most of the university courses in China have adopted the name of the course of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts-Abstract Art Language.In China, abstract art language courses generally consist of abstract sketch modules and abstract color modules. This research mainly focuses on the abstract sketch module. Prior to this, some colleges and universities called this course abstract art language course, and some colleges called it basic sketch II course. According to the provisions of the General University Undergraduate Major Catalog and Major Introduction compiled by the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, the abstract art language course is one of the core courses of the painting major.In order to ensure the objectivity of this study, the selected documents in this study come from three sources. First, some of the documents come from China's national publishing house or "China's Top 100 Book Publishing Units". Second, the authors of some of the documents come from leading figures in the discipline in China. Third, part of the literature comes from master and doctoral theses of key universities in China.This research has been conducted in three aspects.First, explore the reasons and historical background of the abstract art language courses of Chinese universities lagging behind the Chinese realism painting courses.Second,explore the relationship between the abstract art language course of Chinese painting major and Chinese calligraphy.Third,explore the current status of mainstream teaching methods of abstract sketching module used in abstract art language courses in China at this stage. This research adopts the literature method to study it. A total of 57 related literatures are collected, and the three questions of the research are answered well.

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Shuai , D., & Devarajoo, K. (2021). A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THE ABSTRACT SKETCH MODULE OF ABSTRACT ART LANGUAGE COURSES FOR PAINTING MAJORS COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN CHINA. International Journal of Infrastructure Research and Management, 9(2), 60-75. https://doi.org/10.63646/j.ijirm.2021.090206