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Chinese art is visual art that originated in or is practiced in China, Greater China or by Chinese artists. Art created by Chinese residing outside of China can also be considered a part of Chinese art when it is based on or draws on Chinese culture , heritage, and history.
The arts of China (simplified Chinese: 中国艺术; traditional Chinese: 中國藝術) have varied throughout its ancient history, divided into periods by the ruling dynasties of China and changing technology, but still containing a high degree of continuity. Different forms of art have been influenced by great philosophers, teachers ...
The national animal of China is the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanolueca), a bear native to south-central China. Chinese dragon [5] The Chinese dragon, or Loong, is one of four auspicious legendary creatures appearing in Chinese mythology and folklore. The dragon has many animal-like body parts, including wolf's head, stag's antlers, hare's eyes ...
The "Six principles of Chinese painting" were established by Xie He, a writer, art historian and critic in 5th century China, in "Six points to consider when judging a painting" (繪畫六法, Pinyin: Huìhuà Liùfǎ), taken from the preface to his book "The Record of the Classification of Old Painters" (古畫品錄; Pinyin: Gǔhuà Pǐnlù ...
Chinese ritual bronzes from the Shang and Western Zhou dynasties come from a period of over a thousand years from c. 1500 BC, and have exerted a continuing influence over Chinese art. They are cast with complex patterned and zoomorphic decoration, but avoid the human figure, unlike the huge figures only recently discovered at Sanxingdui .
The Chinese imagination has always been enriched by the regions lying to China’s north and west. [9] As the Tang empire grew in the seventh century, the government was required to gain extensive and in-depth knowledge and information about Central Asia, sending several emissaries to distant places, including Samarkand and Tokhara to ...
Wucai plate, Chinese export porcelain, Kangxi period c. 1680 Painters' workshop at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory in Vienna c. 1830 Porcelain painting in Weimar, Germany in 1989. China painting, or porcelain painting, [a] is the decoration of glazed porcelain objects, such as plates, bowls, vases or
China/Avant-Garde Exhibition; Chinese art by medium and technique; Chinese auspicious ornaments in textile and clothing; Chinese calligraphy; Chinese export silver; Chinese jade; Chinese magic mirror; Chinese Nude Oils Exhibition; Chinese ceramics; Chinoiserie; Cloisonné; Confucian art; Cynical realism