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After the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, Chinese art schools adopted the Soviet education model, with majors divided into Chinese painting, oil painting, printmaking, sculpture, applied art, and theory. Since then, the organization of art academies has continued to be largely based on medium. Though the rise of the artists of the ’85 New Wave movement, which introduced the term “experimental art,” eventually prompted the establishment of the Experimental Art Committee within
