Socialist realism, the mandated artistic style of the Chinese communist movement from 1942 to 1978, promoted official socialism in a realistic fashion. Though possibilities for art-making in China broadened during the reform period of the 1980s, the influence of socialist realism has remained profound. This legacy can be seen in the gritty attention to everyday detail in the expressive paintings of Liu Xiaodong, as well as heavily ironic takes on the persistence of communist ideology alongside free market restructuring in the work of Zhang Xiaogang and Fang Lijun. Yang Shaobin developed a mode of documentary painting concerned with the lives of workers, while Duan Jianyu offers a contemporary feminist perspective, loaded with humour, eroticism and art historical references.