Traceability and Reflection: Contemporary Revelations of Li Ruiqing’s Art Education Thought

Abstract

Li Ruiqing is an essential founder of higher art education in modern China. He advocated a new style of education for a better country. He founded the Drawing and Handicrafts Section, the first teacher-training art department in the country at that time, at the Two Rivers Normal School. It pioneered the opening of art specialties in Chinese higher education and trained a large number of art education talents for Chinese art education. Its spirit of education to develop the country, dare to be the first, and the courage to take responsibility for modern art education thought has an essential impact on the innovation of modern art education thought and the formation of the contemporary spirit of the times of courage to take responsibility for the critical impact.