Aida Yuen Wong, Associate Professor of Fine Arts and Chair of East Asian Studies at Brandeis University, will give the 2010 Doris Sloan Memorial Lecture in conjunction with the exhibition, Tradition Transformed: Chang Ku-nien, Master Painter of the 20th Century. Dr. Wong will focus on the challenges of the era as artists encountered Western-style modernity and sought to reform Chinese art traditions. The teaching of sumiao (pencil sketching) and xiesheng (drawing from life), skills strongly aligned with scientism and Western ideas of progress and realism, were widely adopted by oil painters and traditionalist ink painters alike during this period. Through consideration of the delicate negotiation between foreign and endogenous possibilities and analysis of the theory and practice of representative masters, this talk will reflect on the persistent debate over the technical direction of Chinese-style painting in the modern world.