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  2. Hanging scroll - Wikipedia

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    Besides the previous styles of hanging scroll mountings, there are a few additional ways to format the hanging scroll. Hall painting (中堂畫) A hall painting is intended to be the centerpiece in a main hall. [10] It is usually large, serves as a focal point in an interior, and often has a complicated subject. [10] Four hanging scrolls ...

  3. Handscroll - Wikipedia

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    A handscroll has a backing of protective and decorative silk (包首) usually bearing a small title label (題簽) on it. [6]In Chinese art, the handscroll usually consists of a frontispiece (引首) at the beginning (right side), the artwork (畫心) itself in the middle, and a colophon section (拖尾) at the end for various inscriptions.

  4. Chinese painting - Wikipedia

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    As with calligraphy, the most popular materials on which paintings are made are paper and silk. The finished work can be mounted on scrolls, such as hanging scrolls or handscrolls. Traditional painting can also be done on album sheets, walls, lacquerware, folding screens, and other media. The two main techniques in Chinese painting are:

  5. Early Spring (painting) - Wikipedia

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    Early Spring is a hanging scroll painting by Guo Xi. Completed in 1072, it is one of the most famous works of Chinese art from the Song dynasty. The work demonstrates his innovative techniques for producing multiple perspectives which he called "the angle of totality." The painting is a type of scroll painting which is called a Shan shui.

  6. List of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs - Wikipedia

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    Pommel pattern Guri (屈輪) / Pommel scroll [21] Geometric Diagonal Diagonal straight lines Lishui: Diagonal wavy lines Semicricles Horizontal semi-circles Woshui Curvilinear Swirl [4] Wavy Wavy Boqu [4] Others Yunleiwen ( 云雷纹)/ Cloud-and-thunder pattern (meander) Yunleiwen: Yunwen (云纹) / Cloud patterns (meander) Yunwen

  7. Manichaean Diagram of the Universe - Wikipedia

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    Eight silk hanging scrolls with Manichaean didactic images from southern China from between the 12th and the 15th centuries, which can be divided into four categories: Two single portraits (depicting Mani and Jesus) Icon of Mani; Manichaean Painting of the Buddha Jesus; One scroll depicting Salvation Theory (Soteriology)

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  9. Chinese art - Wikipedia

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    As with calligraphy, the most popular materials on which paintings are made of are paper and silk. The finished work can be mounted on scrolls, such as hanging scrolls or handscrolls. Traditional painting can also be done on album sheets, walls, lacquerware, folding screens, and other media. The two main techniques in Chinese painting are: