中国的近现代美术教育史,在一定程度上可以说是留洋美术生的创业史。而近现代以来的国画史,无疑是画家在急剧变化的时代舞台上,在传统与现代、东方与西方美学思想的碰撞下艰难求索的历史。广东中山人郑锦正是这段历史中一位绕不过的美术教育家和国画家,其成就与失落都与时代有莫大的关系。作为最早留学日本学习美术的中国人,郑锦在1914年回国前已取得一定的国际声誉,从其创设国立北平美术专门学校(中央美术学院前身)及 The history of modern art education in China can be described as the history of the founding of art students of foreign countries to a certain extent. However, the history of Chinese painting since modern times is undoubtedly a history of painstakingly searching painters under the impact of traditional and modern, eastern and western aesthetics on the rapidly changing stage of the times. Zheng Jinzhong, a native of Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, is a painter and painter of painterly art in this history. His achievements and loss have a great relationship with the times. As the first Chinese to study fine arts in Japan, Cheng Jin achieved a certain international reputation before returning to China in 1914. From his creation of the National Beiping Fine Art College (the predecessor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts) and