喧闹的宽窄巷子口，有一座幽静的大宅院，璀璨的银杏映衬着三进三出的川西民居，这里常常聚集着不少艺术家，老宅内还不间断的举办着美术展览，这处环境优美、人文高尚的宅院大门上挂着两个牌匾——“成都画院”“成都市美术馆”。
成都画院是四川省最早设立的现代公立画院，它创立于1980年，是一个以创作研究绘画艺术、开展相关学术活动的文化事业单位。2010年这里加挂“成都市美术馆”牌子，与成都画院合署办公，展览室依照公益美术馆标准进行了改建。如今，这个坐落在成都画院老院子里的成都市美术馆，每年公益开放300天以上，举办展览不低于15个，公教活动12场以上，虽然展厅展线只有180米，但以其较高的展览质量，成为了成都重要的艺术展览场所。
成都画院现有的建筑为上世纪80年代初，将原位于署袜街的静安旅馆（原陕西会馆）和红星路附近的叶家祠堂迁移合并复建于此。整体风格为清末民初的川南民居宅院风格，占地面积2238.54平方米，建筑面积1744平方米。是宽窄巷子片区现存最大最完好的建筑，2007年被评为第七批省级文物保护单位。成都画院的建筑基本为中轴对称，三进院落与葱郁的银杏古木相互掩映，和浓厚的人文底蕴融为一体。作为省文保单位，美术馆展厅的改建全部为内部加建，没有破坏建筑本体，保留了穿斗抬梁混合式的建筑架构。从1982年启用以来，很长一段时间都作为艺术家的画室，在这里诞生了不少优秀的作品。
成都画院从设立之始即彰显出开放的胸怀。首批专职艺术家中不仅有国画家，还有油画家和版画家，这种做法在当时的全国画院体系中少之又少。成都画院的国画家既有研修黄筌传统的，也有自学院体系出发的，但更多的是兼收并蓄，他们在各自的创作中推进了中国画艺术的发展，在全国展览上多有建树。在西画领域，从苏式写实，到乡土艺术，再到当代艺术，成都画院的艺术探索都未曾离开过时代语境。时至今日，成都画院形成了国画、油画、多媒体、理论研究全面构架的人才队伍，这在今天的全国画院体系中也是不多见的。成都画院多元包容的氛围，促使其在四川艺术界，乃至全国艺术界都有不可小视的影响，成为成都文化的重要名片。
成都画院先后在全国范围内集结了一批艺术家为顾问和画家。国画领域，第一任院长朱佩君延续了黄家工笔画的传统，以她为代表的工笔画家还有姚思敏、高晓笛、江溶和李青稞，纷纷在全国众多大赛中斩获嘉奖。另外长于写意的国画家沈道鸿、何继笃、张幼矩、夏亮熹、叶瑞琨、魏明阳、刘德扬、文永生等也都在全国颇有影响力，中青年画家中蔡寅坤、李晖、向洋、刘海涛、钟士敏、曾珍、卢贞、朱迪等都在全国及省级大展上多次获奖。西画领域，自上世纪八十年代开始，周春芽、何多苓等一批艺术家进入国际当代艺术展览体系，在国际上获得声誉。万启仁、袁吉中、简崇民、胡仁樵、苏聪、辜志勇、黄润生、李猛、谷晓艳等以他们独特的审美视角，展示出成都画院的艺术先锋精神。在国画与油画发展的同时，成都画院没有忽视艺术的时代性，公招了有国际影响力的多媒体艺术家陈秋林，在艺术的当代表现中不断探索。
Brief Introduction To The Basic Condition Of Chengdu Art Academy Founded in 1980, Chengdu Art Academy is among the first nationwide public welfare-oriented professional art institutions established by the government whose mission it is to specialize in art exhibition, collection, storage, display, research, creation, academic exchanges, and public education. Chengdu is a famous historical and cultural city. As early as 938 A.D., Mengchang, emperor of Later Shu established the first royal art academy of China in Chengdu. The palace style and the art school created by the painters adept at realistically painting birds and flowers represented by the father and son, Huangquan and Huang Jucai, had a profound influence on successive generations. In the 1930s to 1940s, a host of masters gathered in Chengdu and played their boosting part in the development of painting. When originally established, the office of Chengdu Art Academy was located in the Cultural Park and later it was moved to No. 59, Zhijishi Street in 1983. The present Chengdu Art Academy occupies an area of 2331 square meters, whose architectural appearance is the typical quadrangle folk house in western Sichuan in the late Qing Dynasty, the style being primitive yet elegant. In June, 2007, the folk houses of Chengdu Art Academy were approved as “Sichuan Provincial Heritage Conservation Site”. In April, 2015, the second protection and maintenance project for the folk houses of Chengdu Art Academy was accomplished, with the first being in January, 2008. Organization arrangement and personnel conditions At present, the Art Academy has Arts Council, Academic Committee, Office, Creation Department, Promotion Department, Art Gallery and Training Department. With staffing level being 35, there are 30 on-duty staffs, including 17 professional creators. 25 famous artists with a lofty virtue worthy of respect are employed as the consultants successively. At present, 11 artists and critics are employed as the artistic adviser of Chengdu Art Academy;10 artists with social and market influence are employed as the painters of Chengdu Art Academy; 32 excellent young and middle-aged artists in Chengdu region are employed as the distinguished artists of Chengdu Art Academy. |
