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Century, many Chinese painters went to Japan and Europe to learn painting, and used Western experiences in modeling and coloring for reference in an effort to reform China's traditional painting techniques. Since the founding of the PRC in 1949, the Soviet Union's teaching pattern came into China and lifted sketching to a supreme position, the genre of figure painting reflecting real life prospered at the expense of traditional landscape and flower-and-bird paintings. Unlike these two eras, the creation of contemporary Chinese paintings has seen a free development of various forms and styles. Though a majority of the artists are still following the Western techniques, but some have tried to go back to the ink and wash method to express modern artistic concepts, leading to a genre of ""neo-literati painting"" --- a cultural phenomenon arising in the late 1980s and early 90s.