Un Fengmien(林風眠) travelled to France in 1919, where for the six month he studied in Dijon. In 1920 he entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. The study abroad scheme was proceeding well and in May 1924 a Group of Chinese students including Lin Fengmien held an exhibition in the Palais du Rhine in strasbarg. Cai Yuanpei(蔡元培) is a man of foresight to contemporary education of Chinese. Lin and Cai, this two man also acknowledged to succeed for Chinese art-education, insisted to introduced Western painting. But their's insistence had many problems. They pursuit to harmony western painting to Chinese painting. They wish to Chinese painting glories. Bei-Hong, Xu(徐悲鴻) was also one of the best Artist in China. He interested in western art techniques, and studying hard and meeting with contemporary Western artists. He studied to drawing of Western Art and thought that the Chinese art-education is changing to drawing. Maybe, When studying in France Xu absorbed creative ideas from the Impressionist and Realist, creating a kind of painting with strong abjective romantic appeal. Because Xu violated that Chinese painting has very old tradition. Besides he ignored that Chinese painting differs from Western painting in many respects. In this a point, Xu's insistence was lost of persuasiveness. Un Fengmien and Hsu Pei hong was income the educational work and study of art abroad. These two artists on their returned to China were given great power in the direction of art education policy. Before 1949 they were primarily responsible for the path of Chinese art, and there by responsible for the introducing western influence into Chinese art of this century. The one skill all were agreed upon that drawing from life and sketching from nature should be the priority.
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