香港20世纪上半叶的美术,基本上是内地美术的延伸,但又不完全与内地美术的发展相叠合。战前广泛流行于大陆沿海城市的现代艺术思潮,在香港则晚至30年后才出现。这股发端于西方的反传统、超现实和追求纯艺术的现代思潮曾经由早期留学生而影响了抗战爆发前的中国艺术 Art in Hong Kong in the first half of the 20th century was basically an extension of art in the Mainland, but it was not entirely in line with the development of the arts in the Mainland. The prevalent pre-war coastal cities in mainland China’s modern art trend, in Hong Kong as late as 30 years later appeared. This anti-traditional, surrealist and pure-art-oriented modern trend that originated in the West has influenced Chinese art before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War