On the afternoon of April 6, Art school of Jiangsu University specially invited Professor Li Chaode, doctoral tutor of Suzhou University, to give an academic lecture on the theme of "topic selection, research application, my experience in academic research" to all teachers and students. This lecture was held in the form of online conference, presided over by Professor Deng Lili, the graduate tutor of fine arts, and attended by more than 500 graduate tutors and graduate students inside and outside the school.

Professor Li Chaode is a second-class professor and doctoral supervisor of School of Arts Soochow University, the curator of the Museum of Soochow University, the doctoral leader of the first-class discipline of design, the chief expert of the major bidding project "design aesthetics research" of the National Social Science Foundation (Art), and a famous teacher in Jiangsu Province. He is also the vice chairman of China Association of fashion designers, member of the Art Committee of China Artists Association, deputy director of the Art Committee of fashion, member of the steering committee of Art Majors in Colleges and universities of the Ministry of education, director of China Association of literary critics, member of Suzhou Federation of literary artists, and chairman of Suzhou Association of literary critics. He has published academic monographs such as design aesthetics, noble simplicity - a talk about art aesthetics, clothing review, cultural position of design, experience vision, summer in Maryland, and wonderful imagination. Participated in the editorial board and writing of large-scale academic works "Chinese clothing classic" and "reincarnation of civilization". He has published more than 60 papers in core journals such as decoration, art observation, art research, 100 art schools, University Journals and other important academic journals. He has written more than 70 art and design reviews. In 2005, he was rated as one of the ten professors who had an important impact on China's fashion design industry by China Textile News. He has been invited to judge CCTV and other international and domestic design competitions for many times. He once served as the judge of the design exhibition area of the 11th, 12th and 13th National Art exhibitions. "Works of the 13th National Art Exhibition in Beijing" is the candidate for the art work "the pain of Maguan".

Professor Li Chaode's lecture is based on his years of artistic experience, and expounds his research ideas of paying equal attention to both art and learning. Taking his own research topic declaration as the main content, he analyzed it from many perspectives, such as what is research, what research is to do, the classification of research, the ability required for research, and the technical problems of declaration. First of all, he proposed that theoretical research needs to be combined with skills and learning, and that we should have the ability to control skill and learning, and pay equal attention to both skill and learning. Secondly, he pointed out that the study of modern art is divided into two points, one is the knowledge of description, the other is the knowledge of cognition. The knowledge described is learned in a passive way, which is suitable for understanding and grasping abstract things; Knowledge learned by doing is specific knowledge, and the purpose is to solve problems. Both are indispensable in the theoretical research of modern art, which is the inevitable path from sensibility to rationality. Professor Li Chaode believes that doing research requires dealing with concepts, and clear logical thinking is the premise of putting forward theoretical assumptions and creating new theories. Before any idea is put into practice, it must be planned as a whole, and a large number of basic materials have been collected. On this basis, only by grasping the key of the problem and making analysis and judgment can an excellent research be completed. At the end of the lecture, Professor Deng Lili summarized that the development of art theory requires in-depth academic research, doing a good job in external circulation, emphasizing practice and strengthening theory, expanding the idea of "great art", strengthening the cooperation and integration with scientific research projects, and using design to contribute its own unique strength to Jiangsu University. Professor Li Chaode also said that he hoped to see the art school of Jiangsu University more energetic and aggressive, and he was full of expectations for the future development of the art school of Jiangsu University.

After the lecture, the teachers and students also had an academic dialogue and in-depth communication with Professor Li Chaode. Professor Li Chaode carefully answered the questions of teachers and students and put forward positive suggestions for teachers and students to do a good job in project application.