In late 19th and early 20th century, a group of aspiring students graduated and returned from abroad. They became the leaders and professors of the “New Art College”, so called the first generation of Chinese painters. Those renowned ones included Xu Beihong, Lin Fengmian, Liu Haisu, WU Dayu, Yan Wenliang, etc.. 
The second generation of oil painters were taught directly by those first generation painters. There were Feng Fasi, Lv Xiaguang, Sha Qi, Zhang Anzhi, taught by Xu Beihong; graduates of Hangzhou National College of Art such as Su Tianci, Min Xiwen, Wu Guanzhong, experienced from Lin Fengmian. If those first generation painters were pioneers and beacons, the second generation painters would be the practitioners who devoted themselves to the combination of traditional Chinese paintings and Western paintings. Based on what they have learnt from predecessors, together with their own experience and cultivation, the second generation created different styles of paintings. For instance, Lin Dachuan perfectly combined the color of impressionism and the implications of Chinese writing; Su Tianci integrated the spirit of Zheng into his masterpieces, which was distant and ethereal; Wu Guanzhong incorporated the disciplines of western modernism into the mood of Chinese painting. No matter how they differed in ways of performing their art, they all showed one unitary trait—present Eastern aesthetical taste by applying Western modeling methods.

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