By the end of the 1950s and throughout the 1960s, the artists of the largely academic May Art Association and of the Tung Fang Painting Association (many of whose members came from the military) were turning out a stream of abstract art and theories.
五○年代末和整個六○年代，由學院派為主的五月畫會和不少軍旅出身畫家為大宗的東方畫派，以源源不絕的抽象作品和大量的藝術論述成為藝壇主流。