Thought on Comparison of Jewelry Education Model from Chinese and Western Art

In this paper, the Chinese and western modern jewelry art education with the purpose of cultivating creative talents was compared and discussed. It introduced the features of western jewelry education: Openness of thought and taking initiative of individual, the learning of techniques merged into the creation and the learning of theory. Furthermore, it described that Chinese jewelry education starts late, but it develops fast. And different colleges and universities have different orientations and models in jewelry education, such as the development of concept and thought, the manual skill training and the commercial market. According to Bauhaus' theory in art education, the subjects as cultivated creative talents should have the creative freedom and solid grasp of technical ability. Hence, the author considered that the subjects freely choose kinds of creative forms as well as art, commerce, manual work or technique, and their creative ideas are more broad, which is the purpose of cultivating creative talents.