A similar development was triggered by the rapidly developing sciences. While religious art was based more on traditions also putting the artistic work methods understandably in a conservative framework, particularly the last century has brought incredible changes. To a similar extent as life and development processes were better understood, the arts have expanded by completely new kinds of presentation and motifs. Entire subjects of nature were included in the artwork and especially nature-based motifs - biomorphic art.

As most times, this development has taken in the East and the West very different ways. In art, prim­arily the conflict between Europe and East Asia is meant. While in the West understanding and analyzing received a greater emphasis and thereby resulted in a higher importance of artistic abstraction, arts in the East are more focused on summarizing similarities leading to a larger share of complex art. For both sides at all times the mutual understanding was not easy.