I studied oil painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, and I want to go to Europe for graduate school,

France and the Vatican are recommended because you can see enough masterpieces of master paintings. Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velázquez, Impressionist masters, etc.

If you want to improve your painting skills, it is really not recommended to go abroad for graduate school, most foreign colleges and universities train graduate students to pay attention to theory and sublimate you from a philosophical point of view.

High consumption in European countries is inevitable, even if you apply for a scholarship, you still have to worry about food and housing, and when the time comes, you still have to work and involve energy, and neglect your studies. If you don't know the language, it will be difficult to graduate, and although many European countries say that they can teach in English, their English is not as good as that of their domestic English teachers. Just like when you go to school in Hangzhou, it is a reason that teachers and classmates are still willing to communicate in Hangzhou dialect.

It is best to go to a country where English is the first language, and it is a good choice to apply for a study tour in the form of a short-term course in song.

It doesn't matter if you go to the school's official ** consultation and write an email to the teacher, they will be happy with all your questions.

Good luck.

It is recommended that you go to Italy or the Netherlands.

The United Kingdom and the United States seem to be from North America.

Look at your own research direction. Italy is the center of the Renaissance, so it is a classical tradition. France is the center of modern painting such as Impressionism, so it is a relatively modern style.

Italian Academy of Fine Arts.

The Academy of Fine Arts undergraduates take three years of oil painting, two years for anatomy and art history, and one year for painting techniques and drawing.

Oil painting is the main course. Most of the professors in the main course of oil painting do not teach you how to paint, but more to strengthen the guidance and control of your creative ideas and work style. So that your work can find your personal style and artistic value in three years of study.

Therefore, in the main class, the professor will select the works of several artists based on the students' works of the day for analysis and discussion. The professor will also adjust you accordingly according to your current level of painting, for example, if the composition of your work is too rigid now, then the professor will recommend you to learn more relaxed and bold composition.

On the contrary, the oil painting technique class will teach you how to use materials and the use of various techniques. In their freshman year, they will learn how to stretch the canvas, how to choose a wooden frame, and what painting techniques to use to use the pigments of the calendar. For example, when I was taking an undergraduate course on the techniques of Jiansou, the professor taught how to learn the techniques of classical painting.

Domestic art academies: **Academy of Fine Arts, China Academy of Art, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, Nanjing University of the Arts, Jingdezhen Institute of Ceramics.

Among the 31 independent undergraduate art colleges and 13 reference colleges identified by the Ministry of Education, the art majors of the art colleges are Capital Normal University and Nanjing Normal University, Xiamen University of Environmental Art Design, Dalian Polytechnic University of Industrial Design (Art), Wuhan Textile University of Fashion Design, World Academy of Fine Arts: Academy of Fine Arts of Florence (Italy), Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna (Italy), Academy of Fine Arts of Paris (France), Repin Academy of Fine Arts (Russia), Surikov Academy of Fine Arts (Russia), University of the Arts London, Royal Academy of Art, Tokyo University of the Arts, Bremen Academy of Arts, Berlin University of the Arts, Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts (Germany), Düsseldorf Academy of Arts, Germany, Rhode Island School of Design, USA.

China's nine major academies of fine arts: **Academy of Fine Arts, China Academy of Art, Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, the above nine institutions will have slight changes in their rankings every year.

**Academy of Fine Arts and China Academy of Fine Arts are currently the best, let the latter be Tsinghua University, and then others, in fact, they are generally the same, if the eight major academies of fine arts can not be examined, other comprehensive universities can also be examined, in fact, it is mainly by self-study, now university resources are largely shared, the important thing is the self-discipline of students, only students who work hard and self-discipline can realize your dream of being a painter.