The Republic of China was founded in 1912 after the fall of the Qing Dynasty and ruled mainland China until 1949 when it lost the Chinese Civil War against communist forces and retreated to Taiwan. It has transformed from an authoritarian one-party state to a multiparty representative democracy on Taiwan. Various art forms developed under Japanese rule from 1895-1945 and in Taiwan, including oil painting focused on daily life, sculpture which became widely accepted in the 1970s, contemporary ceramics experimenting with shapes and glazes from the 1940s onward, and the traditional art of seal carving.