กกกก Western art was introduced into China in 1715, when the Italian painter Giuseppe Castiglione arrived in China as a Jesuit missionary.His skill as an artist was much appreciated by the Qianlong Emperor and he was appointed a court artist and adopted the Chinese name Lang Shining.Following the First Opium War in 1839-1842 China was forcibly opened to increased contact with the West and over time many Western works on various subjects were translated into Chinese.In 1887 Li Tiefu was the first Chinese to travel abroad to study Western art and in 1905 Li Shutong studied western paintings in Japan. When he returned to China in 1910, he pioneered the promotion of western-style painting.Later, Xu Beihong, Liu Haishu and others went abroad to study and on their return became the founders of the Chinese Oil Painting movement.At the time the New Culture Movement promoted humanist ideas and enlightened aesthetic education which saw the concurrent development in China of both traditional realism and modern genres of Western art .
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However, for most Chinese artists, their only experience of Western art has been through mechanical reproductions published, with varying degrees of accuracy, in art books and magazines.These publications proliferated after the end of the Cultural Revolution with TheReview of Foreign Art (which later changed its name to the Journal of Art Translation) and World Art published by the Central Academy of Fine Arts becoming the major periodical sources of information about Western art movements.Greater contact with Western philosophical, aesthetic and cultural ideas is just one of the factors in the on-going process of transformation in contemporary Chinese art since the death of Mao Zedong and the end of the Cultural Revolution, and which has given rise to