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Mogu (Chinese: 沒骨) is a painting skill or technique in traditional Chinese painting. It literally means "boneless". [1] In these paintings, forms are made by ink and color washes rather than by outlines. [1]
China painting, or porcelain painting, [a] is the decoration of glazed porcelain objects, such as plates, bowls, vases or statues. The body of the object may be hard-paste porcelain , developed in China in the 7th or 8th century, or soft-paste porcelain (often bone china ), developed in 18th-century Europe.
Starting in the mid-twentieth century, artists begin to combine traditional Chinese painting techniques with Western art styles, leading to the style of new contemporary Chinese art. One of the representative artists is Wei Dong who drew inspirations from eastern and western sources to express national pride and arrive at personal actualization ...
Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden (芥子園畫傳, Jieziyuan Huazhuan), sometimes known as Jieziyuan Huapu (芥子園畫譜), is a printed manual of Chinese painting compiled during the early-Qing Dynasty. Many renowned later Chinese painters, like Qi Baishi, began their drawing lessons with the manual.
Wuxing painting is a style of Chinese painting that draws inspiration from the philosophical concept of the "five phases/elements" . Specifically, it combines the use of Chinese freehand brush work techniques and the metaphysics of the five wuxing elements. [ 1 ]
Chinese pigments is similar to Western gouache paint in that it contains more glue than watercolours, but more so than gouache. The high glue content makes the pigment bind better to Chinese paper and silk as well as enabling works of art to survive the wet-mounting process of Chinese hanging scroll mountings without smudging or bleeding.
Freehand brush work is a genre of Chinese traditional painting which includes poem, calligraphy, painting and seal. In Chinese called Hsieh yi (traditional Chinese: 寫意; simplified Chinese: 写意; pinyin: Xiěyì), which literally means "writing ideas". [1] It was formed in a long period of artistic activities and promoted by the literati.
The history of water sleeves in Chinese performance art reflects centuries of cultural and theatrical evolution. [3] While long and flowing sleeves were already prevalent in imperial China, symbolizing grace, authority, and elegance, their origins can be traced back to the Han dynasty. Sleeve movements during this time were integral to early ...