China Academy of Art
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China Academy of Art is an art school in mainland China. It was founded in 1928 by the government of Republic of China.
In 1928, the National Academy of Art was founded as the first comprehensive art academy in China on the bank of the West Lake in Hangzhou by the eminent educator Cai Yuanpei with Mr. Lin Fengmian. It takes integrating eastern and western arts, creating arts of the time and developing Chinese culture as its tenets. For decades, the location of the Academy has been changed ten times while its name six times, as follows: