Chinese painting

Japanese painting is one of the oldest and most elegant of the Japanese visual arts, embracing many varieties of genres and styles. The long history of Japanese painting expresses synthesis and competition between native Japanese aesthetics and the adaptation of imported ideas. From a decorative view, Japanese paintings are full of mesmerizing Asian charm. Although, this can also be a confusing subject for novices that want to learn more about it. Different painting styles and schools, a…

immense collaborative paintings.(p.218, Art in China) The inscription on the top of the left is a sentence from the poem which named “Ode to Snow”. The picture is also horizontal division. The foreground is the mountains covered with lofty and strong pine trees, which represented the Chinese is dedicated to survive like pine. The montains and pines only covered one-third of the…

My trip to the Barnes Foundation museum was enjoyable and informative. On my trip, as we moved through the galleria I was astounded by how the rooms in the galleria were arranged. It was not like your average museum, with one or two paintings on the walls with a description of it underneath. Instead, there were rooms with paints all over the walls, along with iron work that correlated with the pieces. Our tour guide elaborated on how he did not wish for there to be a description under the pieces…

World War II. About 1200 people would enter everyday to see these historical paintings. The cave showed everyday people and famous artists that the art they created and used was already learned during that time period. For example, Pablo Picasso visited the cave in the 1950’s and said “we have invented nothing”.…

electronic products like we have today. However, she still has some hobbies such as collecting candy wrappers, cutting paper, and reading line drawings. She also liked the hero and heroines’ figures from the posters. Those figures also showed in her first painting, which was created at age 13, and exhibited in a children artwork exhibition. After Leah grown up, she insisted to go to art school, even though her parents did not agree. To enter the art school, she needed to go through a tough exam.…

Province and spent his childhood learning calligraphy and Chinese literati traditions. Zao’s father was an amateur painter and his grandfather a former naval gunner of the late Qing Dynasty and a devoted Daoist disciple. Since Zao was still a child, the Daoist thoughts, a theme that would permeate throughout his oeuvre, had been rooted in his mind when he just started exploring the world of art. Enthralled by both Chinese literati paintings and European modern art that he saw on the postcards…

major focus in their works. By the late Tang Dynasty, which occurred from 618-907, landscape painting had evolved into an independent genre. As the dynasty disintegrated, the concept of withdrawal into the natural world became a major focus of painters. The images of nature remain a potent source of inspiration down to the present day, and it has been transformed by the millennia of human occupation. Chinese artists Kuncan, Yang Yongliang and Cui Jie have explored the genre of landscape in a…

Sang-ui-won was a government office where created, stored and managed royal family’s outfits, especially the king’s and as well managed and supplied the treasure and money in the palace in the Joseon dynasty. Other government offices, such as Gyu-jang-gak, Chun-chu-gwan and Sa-go, were included in its range of a museum, including Sang-ui-won. Gyu-jang-gak kept not only the royal family’s assets of Joseon dynasty but the assets of the nation, and moreover, it stored the writings and calligraphy…

The traditional Chinese name for the country, Zhong-gue date back the Xia dynasty in C. 2205-1700BCE. The rule both by anarchy and foreign rule. Just live preview history we study. Chinese also believe that their deceased ancestors continue to exist in spiritual world and they can give their descendants access to god. They commonly divide every as part of yin and yang. Chinese transition from hunter and gather begin the Neolithic Period (C.7000-2250 BCE). The art that was known for its…

bring two different aspects together and making it into one. The first image is a piece from back home that I thought was a beautiful painting. I chose this image because it caught my attention with its creativity and uniqueness and because it was painted in such a bad part of town…