自从上海的周湘于宣统年间创办“布景画传习所”至今已近一个世纪了(著名绘画大师刘海粟当时亦为其中画友)。较之更多的照像布景画制作场所来说,那更象我国舞台美术专业的雏型。及至发展到现在,我们已有了中央戏剧学院、上海戏剧学院及各省市艺术院校所属的很多舞台美术专业系、科,其数学力量具有相当的质和量。但认真推敲起来,那些系科多年来所采用的教材,教法、教学指导思想主要是西方戏剧舞美的体系。直到中国戏曲学院舞台美术系建立始,我们才有了第一个高等院校的传统戏曲舞美专业系,这就给我们的教学和研究工作提出了较高的要求。从建系到现在,我们已经历了十个寒暑春秋,送走了一期又一期合格的毕业生,为我 It has been almost a century since Zhou Xiang, the founder of the “Set Painting and Painting Institute” in Xuantong, Shanghai (famous painter Liu Haisu was also a painter at that time). Compared with more places for the production of photographic scenery, it is more like the prototype of China’s professional stage art. Up until now, we have had many masters in the Department of Theater Arts of the Central Academy of Drama, Shanghai Theater Academy, and various provincial and municipal art schools. The mathematics strength is of considerable quality and quantity. However, careful scrutiny, those departments used for many years teaching materials, teaching methods, teaching guiding ideology is mainly the Western drama and dance system. It was not until the stage art department of the Chinese Opera Academy was established that we had the first drama and beauty department of traditional opera in colleges and universities, which put higher demands on our teaching and research work. From the founding of the Department to the present, we have gone through ten years of cold, summer and spring, sent off a period of qualified graduates, for me