About Yixiaoliu

An art study agent that does one thing: it copies the admission requirements art, design and music schools publish on their own websites, school by school, and puts them side by side.

We record the portfolio, English, international tuition, deadline and interview requirements. Each school has one page, and every line leads back to the official source. Yixiaoliu (艺小留) is the same brand as the Chinese-language site artstudy.cn.

Where the data comes from

  • Every school’s information comes from the admissions pages of its own website. The bottom of each school page lists the official pages actually checked and the date.
  • Where an official site does not state something, we write “Not stated on the official site” rather than filling the gap with agency articles, forum posts or old figures.
  • Fees keep the academic year and currency the school gives. Where a school gives a per-semester fee, the school page keeps that unit.
  • Acceptance rates are shown only where a public official source publishes them (for US schools, the US Department of Education’s College Navigator), with the source and the year.
  • Schools change their requirements every year. Before you apply, open the official page again and confirm the current version.

How the site is run

Searching the catalogue, using the comparison table and reading the guides is free and needs no account. To weigh schools against your own work, scores and budget, select “Ask Yixiaoliu” on any page and ask in the chat.

If you later want help with an application, it can be taken on by advisers at UNILINK, an education services company with entities in Australia, China and the United Kingdom. Whether to use that service is entirely your choice; asking a question does not commit you to anything. We do not promise admission results and do not act for any school.

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Who we are not

Yixiaoliu is not affiliated with any school and has no partnership or agency agreement with the schools mentioned on this site. School names, requirements and links are quoted from their official websites for reference.

Works on view

The home page, the countries index and each country room hang one public-domain work. Labels state only what the museum or image source states; where the source gives no detail (such as an accession number) none is shown.

  1. Home John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), An Artist at His Easel, 1914, watercolour on paper. Art Institute of Chicago, accession 1962.971. Public domain; image source: Wikimedia Commons.
  2. Countries Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), Two Men Contemplating the Moon, c. 1825–30, oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 2000.51. Public domain (Open Access); image source: metmuseum.org.
  3. United Kingdom room John Constable (1776–1837), Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds, c. 1825, oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 50.145.8. Public domain (Open Access); image source: metmuseum.org.
  4. United States room Winslow Homer (1836–1910), Boys in a Dory, 1873, watercolour and gouache over graphite on paper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 2001.608.1. Public domain (Open Access); image source: metmuseum.org.
  5. Japan room Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), Storm below Mount Fuji (Sanka no haku u), c. 1830–32, woodblock print; ink and colour on paper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession JP11. Public domain (Open Access); image source: metmuseum.org.
  6. France room Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), Entrance to a Garden, 1878–80, watercolour over graphite. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 1982.375. Public domain (Open Access); image source: metmuseum.org.
  7. Germany room Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), Self-portrait, Study of a Hand and a Pillow, 1493, pen and brown ink. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection, accession 1975.1.862. Public domain (Open Access); image source: metmuseum.org.
  8. Italy room Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), Studies for the Libyan Sibyl, c. 1510–11, red chalk, with small accents of white chalk on the left shoulder. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 24.197.2. Public domain (Open Access); image source: metmuseum.org.
  9. Australia room Arthur Streeton (1867–1943), Fire's on, 1891, oil on canvas. Art Gallery of New South Wales, purchased 1893. Public domain; image source: Wikimedia Commons.

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