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In the past, when many scholars talked about the art of the past century from 1840 to 1949, they lamented that it was "conservative and self-contained", "Chinese painting today has reached its end", "it is not as good as our ancestors thousands of years ago", and so on. But in fact, there are many remarkable things in the history of art in the past century. Even when it comes to traditional Chinese painting, there are still people who are constantly exploring and making changes and innovations. Ren Bonian, Xu Gu, Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, Huang Binhong and others saw the dangers of retroism, threw off the heavy shackles of antiquity, faced reality, followed the example of nature, and created a new realm of Chinese painting. What's more, in the past century, not only traditional Chinese paintings have developed in fine arts, but also oil paintings, murals, news paintings, pictorials, comics, calendars, emerging woodcuts, commercial advertising paintings, sculptures, art education, etc. Have also shown new looks. This is what this book wants to bring you a new understanding of the art history of the past century.