始创于1980年的成都画院（成都市美术馆）是改革开放后全国第一批由政府组建的从事书画创作、美术理论研究和学术交流的专业艺术机构。
 

成都是一座历史文化名城。早在公元938年，后蜀主孟昶就在成都建立中国第一个皇家画院，以黄筌、黄居寀父子为代表的工笔花鸟画家创造的院体、画派对后世影响深远。在上世纪三四十年代，一批大师级人物云集成都，又为成都的绘画发展起到了推波助澜的作用。

成立之初的成都画院（成都市美术馆）办公地点设在文化公园，1983年搬迁到支矶石街59号，现在的成都画院（成都市美术馆）占地2331平方米，其建筑外形为清末川西民居典型四合院建筑，风格古朴而典雅，2007年6月，成都画院（成都市美术馆）民居建筑被批准为“四川省文物保护单位”。2008年1月，成都画院（成都市美术馆）民居建筑保护维修工程竣工。

机构设置与人员情况

画院现设有艺术委员会、学术委员会、办公室、创作培训部、展览馆藏部、理论研究部、艺术交流中心。现有在职职工31人，其中专业创作人员19人，先后聘请了苏葆桢、吴一峰、岑学恭、赵蕴玉、吴凡等25位德高望重、德艺双馨的老艺术家为顾问，聘请了33位颇有成就的中青年书画家、艺术批评家、理论家为客座艺术家，聘请了6位具有社会和市场影响力的画家为成都画院（成都市美术馆）画师，40位成都地区优秀中青年书画家为成都画院（成都市美术馆）特聘画家。

艺术创作情况

成都画院（成都市美术馆）成立30年来，始终坚持把繁荣艺术创作，造就艺术人才，促进成都美术发展，作为工作的中心，以“立足传统、传承文脉、放眼世界、张扬个性”作为基本艺术理念，形成了“多元并存、求同存异、和谐共生”的良好学术氛围，各个画种、各种流派、各种思想自由表现，艺术家们兼收并蓄、传承创新，艺术创作健康发展。

成都画院（成都市美术馆）成立以来，先后举办了20次“成都画院书画展览”和 100多次各种类型的艺术展览，选送了上千件艺术作品参加国内外各种类型的美术展览，100多人（次）先后获金奖、银奖、文献奖、铜奖、中国油画艺术奖、黄胄美术奖、徐悲鸿美术奖、全国书画院百佳书画家奖、优秀作品奖、佳作奖，以及蒙特卡洛国际现代艺术大展莫纳哥政府奖和法国蒙比利埃“中国当代艺术双年展”新人奖等。同时，积极开展各种形式的对外文化交流，多次接待国内外美术家代表团和美术史学者、著名书画家的访问并应邀参加国内外学术访问交流活动。成都画院（成都市美术馆），不但造就了一批有广泛影响力的艺术家，还团结了一大批成都地区美术家，成为了成都地区美术创作和文化艺术交流的重要阵地。

院藏画情况

成都画院（成都市美术馆）高度重视书画艺术品的收藏，现已收藏书画作品总计1072件，其中油画作品135幅；国画、书法及其它艺术作品928幅；杂件9件。其中不乏大家作品，市值已近亿元。这些藏品不但实现了国有资产的保值增值，提升了成都画院（成都市美术馆）的艺术品味和影响力，也为画院开展学术研究、交流和展览提供了重要保证。

Brief introduction for the basic condition of the Art Academy
 

Chengdu Art Academy, originally founded in 1980, is the first nationwide professional art organization established by the government and being engaged in the painting and calligraphy creation, art theory research and academic communication.

Chengdu is a famous historic and cultural city. As early as 938 A.D., Mengchang—the host of Later Shu established the first royal art academy of China in Chengdu, the palace style and the art school created by the artists with Chinese realistic painting birds and flowers on behalf of the father and son---Huangquan and Huang Jucai had profound influence on later generations. In the 1930s to 1940s, a major group of masters gathered in Chengdu to play a huge pushing function for the development of painting.

When originally established, the office location of Chengdu Art Academy was located in the cultural park; in 1983, it was moved to No. 59, Zhijishi Street. The present Chengdu Art Academy covers 2331m2; the architectural appearance is the typical quadrangle of folk house in western Sichuan in the late Qing Dynasty, the style is primitive and elegant; in June, 2007, the folk houses of Chengdu Art Academy were approved as “Sichuan Provincial Heritage Conservation Site”. In January, 2008, the protection and maintenance project for the folk houses of Chengdu Art Academy was completed.

Organization arrangement and personnel conditions

At present, the Art Academy is provided with Art Committee, Academic Committee, Office, Creation Training Department, Academic Research Department, Art Gallery (Gallery) and Art Exchange Center. There are 31 on-duty staffs, including 19 professional creators, 25 famous artists with a lofty virtue worthy of respect are employed as the consultants successively, such as: Su Baozhen, Wu Yifeng, Cen Xuegong, Zhao Yunyu and Wufan; 33 young and middle-aged artists, art critics and theorists with great achievements are employed as the guest artists; 6 artists with social and market influence are employed as the painters of Chengdu Art Academy; 40 excellent young and middle-aged artists in Chengdu region are employed as the distinguished artists of Chengdu Art Academy.

Artistic creation condition

Since established for 30 years, centering on flourishing the art creation, training the art talents and promoting the development of Chengdu’ art, treating “holding on the tradition, inheriting the culture, opening our eyes to the world and developing the personality” as the basic art principle, Chengdu Art Academy has formed the favorable academic atmosphere with “multivariate co-existence, seeking common ground while shelving differences and harmonious intergrowth”, each painting kind, various schools and all kinds of thoughts can express freely, the artists take in everything and inherit the innovation, the art creation develops healthily.

Since established, Chengdu Art Academy has successively held “Chengdu Art Academy’s Exhibition of Paintings and Calligraphy” for 20 times and various art exhibitions for more than 100 times, in addition, thousands of art works have been selected and sent to take part in various type of art exhibitions at home and abroad, over 100 persons successively has been awarded Golden Award, Silver Award, Documentary Award, Bronze Award, China Oil Painting Art Award,

Huangzhou Art Award, Xu Beihong Art Award, 100 Excellent Artist Award of Nationwide Art Academy, Excellent Works Award and Masterpiece Award as well as Monaco Government Award on Monte Carlo International Modern Art Grand Exhibition and the New Artist Award of China Modern Art Biennial Exhibition in Montpellier, France. Meanwhile, Chengdu Art Academy actively develops various types of foreign cultural exchanges and hosts the visits of the artist delegation at home and abroad, art history scholars and the famous artists as well as is invited to attend the academy visit and exchange activities at home and abroad. Chengdu Art Academy not only creates a group of artists with wide influence but also unites a major group of artists in Chengdu region to become the important site of art creation and cultural art exchange in Chengdu region.

Condition for painting collection works in Chengdu Art Academy

Chengdu Art Academy highly pays attention to the collection for the painting and calligraphy art works, at present it has collected 1072 painting and calligraphy works, including 135 oil painting works, 928 traditional Chinese painting, calligraphy and other art works as well as 9 miscellaneous parts. There is no lack of great master works; their market value has approached to one hundred million. These collections not only realize the maintenance and increase in value and promote the artistic taste and influence of Chengdu Art Academy but also provide the important guarantee to develop the academic research, exchange and exhibition for Chengdu Art Academy.