Early on, Chinese calligraphy and art derived from the Han tradition was repressed in the Japanese occupation era, and was replaced by French impressionism brought in indirectly via Japan.
現代畫的定義模糊，日據時代沿續自中原的水墨因日人的壓抑而隱沒，代之而起的是間接來自日本的法國印象寫實主義。