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Chinese Landscape Oil Painting Research
Chinese and Western artists for natural landscapes oil painting have different perspectives, different from the East and the West view of the world and values. Practices on the performance of the artist painting the outside did not, two different cultural systems of different breeds of modeling tools, space and color patterns.
60 Years of Chinese Fine Arts
From commissioned paintings of political and historical moments to highly individualized executions of different styles and subjects. The development of Chinese art reflects the sweeping changes in Chinese society over the past sixty years. Each turn of event has been recorded on canvas, in detail and with enthusiasm, by generations of Chinese painters. Collectively, they have painted a panorama of a fast-developing society.
A History of Modern Oil Painting Portrait of China
The 17 century, with the Catholic missionaries have been east, Chinese people from the religious figure in the oil painting came into contact with the West; the End of Qing Dynasty, the wide dissemination of Western painting in China, the Chinese artist to draw a number of outstanding creative methods China to enrich the creative portraits, the portrait began to integrate the arts of East and West Road.
Different Styles of Chinese Character Writing
There are different writing styles, or scripts written by hand in the Chinese language. The breakdown in style is roughly as follows: kaishu (regular script prevalent in the Han Dynasty), caoshu (cursive script), lishu (official script) and zhuan-shu (seal character script). Chronologically, script style has experienced three epochs in the course of its over four thousand years bf history. The three epochs are marked by three different scripts that came into fashion: seal character script, official script and regular script. The seal character period ran from the end of primitive society to...
"Green type of painting" - Sandstone painting
Sandstone painting is a new kind style which created by the TuJia minority's people - Li Junsheng. Sandstone painting, adopts the colored sand, stones, and plants which don't give off color as its pigment sticking to form a new type of painting.
History of Chinese Calligraphy
Calligraphy has endured for more than 2,000 years, and evolved into five main ways of writing each with different techniques. Even today, these are still followed and practiced often as a hobby. Just as calligraphy is an art practiced in western cultures so Chinese writing is a leading component in the four traditional arts, namely lute-playing, chess, calligraphy and painting.
Xin'an School of Painting
Mt. Huangshan is the birthplace of the Xin'an schools of painting. In the preface of A Collection of Drawings by the Ming and Qing Artists, Li Yimang, a renowned contemporary artist and painter, says: "Attracted and charmed by the appearance and connotative beauty of Mt. Huangshan, the Xin'an schools of painting has eventually evolved into a typical one of landscape painting."
Xuan Paper Making Techniques
Paper-making is one of the four great inventions of China. Xuan paper, or rice paper, is one of "the four study treasures" (writing brush, ink stick, ink slab, paper), and is the outstanding representative of traditional handmade paper with a history more than 1500 years.
Colored Painting and Water-Ink Painting
In terms of drawing skills, Chinese paintings can be categorized into two styles: colored paintings and water-ink paintings, with the former dominant before the 12th century by professional or craftsman painters, and the latter in and after the 12th century by literati painters.
Calligraphy, the Soul of Chinese Fine Arts
Few nations in the world have calligraphy as a form of art. In China, calligraphy has a long history, is popular among its people, and has maintained a close relationship with Chinese cultural development.