After the liberalizations of the last several decades, mainland China has been deeply influenced by Western culture, to the detriment of traditional painting and calligraphy. As a result, painting and calligraphy have polarized into two camps: the extremely traditional and the extremely avant garde.
近十幾年來改革開放，大陸文化界深受西方衝擊，對長期封閉的傳統書畫界來說，撞擊更是強烈，因此在書畫表現上也呈現兩極化：極古典與極前衛。