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Chinese painting: The early Chinese painting is painted on silk until a century before the invention of paper , the silk gradually being replaced by cheaper materials. Chinese painting can be divided into; figures , landscapes, painting circles, flowers , fruits , feathers, animals, insects, fish and other painting subjects. In the Sui and Tang toward years, court portraits greatly development. To the Song Dynasty , began to show on the landscape depicted in a more subtle. Painters to exhibit vague outline to the distant scene, while the shape of the mountain is hidden in the fog. Painting exhibit focusing on Taoist and Buddhist thought in Heaven. In the beginning of the 13th century, painted the color richer than Song Ming Dynasty paintings appear. Since the New Culture Movement , the Chinese artist began to try to Western painting, and painting are also introduced to China at this time.