Chinese art

lines and planes to create an image of the garden with his own visual language, which uses oil painting to express Chinese aesthetics. The unique appearance of Lion Grove Garden gave Wu Guanzhong the original inspiration for creating his abstract paintings. This piece was successfully purchased at auction for 115 million yuan in the 2011 Poly Auction, which not only reflects Wu’s art recognition, but also represents the…

have an incredible ability to encourage people to gather together in open spaces while teaching them through art. Her very first design brings people from all over the world to mourn and celebrate the lives lost in the Vietnam War. Maya’s life personally and professionally is filled with perseverance and appreciation from her earliest work on the Vietnam…

came with exact evidence that proves time, which brings difficulty to the creation of a chronology. Buddhism prevails roughly from 5th century to the 9th century in the surrounding areas including the Gandhara regions (犍陀罗), Central India, Iran, Han Chinese areas and other small sovereignties, which all brought influence to Xinjiang. Hence, Xinjiang formed into a distinctive Western Regions (西域) style. This clay Buddha head was portrayed with concise style, presenting a plump face, delicately…

‘time-based art’ was also beginning to emerge. Muybridge’s 1878 photographs of horses in motion are an early notable example. In order to capture a horse’s running, Muybridge set several cameras in a line and photographed images moments apart as the horse passed by. The photographs taken together create the illusion of movement. This idea of ‘freezing time’ was the first notion of film, a medium that would come to fundamentally change the way people see, opening the possibility of an art that…

yrus Defeats Spargapises The art institute of Chicago is home to thousands of priceless pieces of artwork that people from all around the world come travel to see. All cultures come together to critique these pieces of artwork. The best part of this experience is the fact that an opinion isn’t wrong, everyone sees something different in their own unique way. While most stop in sublime at La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat, many people walk past it to get to the weapons section. Just a big…

An author, painter, may use allegory to illustrate a moral or spiritual truth, or political or historical situation.but it is easy to apply perfect symbol to express perfect meaning and to add a new information in the art work. The success of allegorical work mainly depends on the viewers or audience’s ability to recognize the identities corresponding symbolic meaning of each of the elements within the artwork. For example, in titien’s allegory of governed by prudence…

Martial art films today are popular, especially in the US. Audiences love the action, and skill, and the grace that all come with the genre. Martial art films seem like just another movie genre for some people. However, martial art films holds an interesting history, going all the way back to China. One can argue that the genre of martial arts films made martial arts and the appreciation of Asian culture more apparent in U.S society. American filmmakers usually casted Asian crew members because…

The prime time of these prints was from 1800 to 1860. Nagasaki-e were made for and bought by Japanese who had hardly ever a chance to see one of the red-haired, foreign 'barbarians' in their lifetime. Richard Illing in his book The Art of Japanese Prints suggests that the Nagasaki-e industry, which flourished from 1800 to 1860, was something of a sideline for the artists the Japanese government employed in Nagasaki to copy western images brought to Japan by foreigners. As the prints…

influence on American society through his martial arts. He was one of the first pioneers of mixed martial artist by his own developed fighting style and inspired many American fighters. By choreographing his own martial arts in his movies, he changed the perspective of Chinese culture and exposed it in America. Bruce lee overcame much diversity between his American culture and his Chinese and fought to expose his philosophy and martial arts. Martial arts were Bruce lee’s main passion and…

The Chinese proverb, “A picture is worth a thousand words”, is routinely used when glancing through a group of images. The main purpose of pictures is to forever preserve the moment in time and look back to appreciate the memory. The purpose of preservation can be found through a collection of images taken at a family gathering, or pictures at a museum event, so people could understand what it was like during that time in history. What if the photographer was trying to capture more than a…