高等美术教育与艺术设计教育,是两个不同类别的教育形式,本文从较普遍的角度分析阐述了两种教育在内容意义、培养目标、课程设置、教学模式等方面的区别。综合两种教育的性质为“造型”活动和“造物”活动。从而揭示了造型表现与造物应用在当前高等艺术院校教学过程中所表现出的区别与基本特征。 Higher art education and art design education are two different forms of education. This article analyzes and explains the differences between the two kinds of education in terms of content, training objectives, curriculum and teaching mode from the more general point of view. The nature of the two types of education is “modeling” activities and “creation” activities. Thus revealing the difference and basic characteristics of the performance of modeling and the application of creation in the teaching process of the current higher arts colleges.