western art began to influence chinese art, specifically with respect to oil paintings, around the beginning of the 20th century.
western art began to influence chinese art, specifically with respect to oil paintings, around the beginning of the 20th century.
around what time period did western art begin to influence chinese art, specifically with respect to oil paintings?
beginning of the 20th century
after the end of the last feudal dynasty in china, with the rise of the new cultural movement, chinese artists began to be influenced by western art and began to integrate western art into chinese culture.influenced by american jazz, chinese composer li jinhui (known as the father of chinese pop music) began to create and promote popular music, which made a huge sensation. at the beginning of the 20th century, oil paintings were introduced to china, and more and more chinese painters began to touch western painting techniques and combine them with traditional chinese painting.meanwhile, a new form of painting, comics, has also begun to rise. it was popular with many people and became the most affordable way to entertain at the time.
history of asian art
western techniques of oil paintings began entering china in the 19th century, becoming prevalent among chinese artists and art students in the early 20th century, coinciding with china's growing engagement with the west. artists such as li tiefu, hong yi, xu beihong, yan wenliang, lin fengmian, fang ganmin, pang yuliang went abroad, predominantly to paris and tokyo, to learn western art. through them, artistic movements such as impressionism, cubism, fauvism, post-impressionism grew and thrived in china, only halted by the second world war and the birth of the people's republic of china, when modernistic artistic styles were seen as being inconsistent with the prevailing political ideals and realism was the only acceptable artistic form. nonetheless, the legacy of the close engagement with western art in the early 20th century endured. oil paintings survived as a important medium in chinese artistic scenes; traditional chinese ink paintings were also changed as a result.
history of painting