Editing Chinese art (section)

==== Shanghai School ====
The [[Shanghai School]] is a very important Chinese school of traditional arts during the [[Qing dynasty]] and the 20th century. Under efforts of masters from this school, traditional Chinese art reached another climax and continued to the present in forms of Chinese painting (中國畫), or ''guohua'' (國畫) for short. The Shanghai School challenged and broke the literati tradition of Chinese art, while also paying technical homage to the ancient masters and improving on existing traditional techniques. Members of this school were themselves educated literati who had come to question their very status and the purpose of art, and had anticipated the impending modernization of Chinese society. In an era of rapid social change, works from the Shanghai School were widely innovative and diverse, and often contained thoughtful yet subtle social commentary. The best known figures from this school are [[Ren Xiong]], [[Ren Bonian]], [[Zhao Zhiqian]], [[Wu Changshuo]], [[Sha Menghai]], [[Pan Tianshou]], [[Fu Baoshi]], [[He Tianjian]], and [[Xie Zhiliu]]. Other well-known painters include [[Wang Zhen (painter)|Wang Zhen]], [[Xugu]], [[Zhang Xiong (painter)|Zhang Xiong]], [[Hu Yuan]], and [[Yang Borun]].