...Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. Painting in the traditional style is known today in Chinese as guóhuà (国画), meaning 'national' or 'native painting', as opposed to Western styles of art which became popular in China in the 20th century. Traditional painting involves essentially the same techniques as calligraphy and is done with a brush dipped in black or colored ink; oils are not used. 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: * Gong-bi (工筆), meaning "meticulous", uses highly detailed brushstrokes that delimits details very precisely. It is often highly coloured and usually depicts figural or narrative subjects. It is often practised by artists working for the royal court or in independent workshops. * Ink and wash painting, in Chinese Shui-mo or (水墨[1]) also loosely termed watercolour or brush painting, and also known as "literati painting", as it was one of the "Four Arts" of the Chinese Scholar-official class.[2] In theory this was an art practised by gentlemen, a distinction that begins to be made in writings on art from the Song dynasty, though in fact the careers of leading exponents could benefit considerably.[3] This...
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...Prominent Painters and Painting from Song to Qing Dynasty Hee Dam Yoon (52775031) Song Dynasty The Song Dynasty was the golden age of landscape painting in Chinese history. Many artists developed landscape painting during Five Dynasties so, the development in the Song period was smoothly started. Especially emperor Song Huizong enjoyed contribution on art cultivation during the Song Dynasty, so, the soaring of Chinese landscape painting was possible (Hough, “Sung Dynasty (1960-1179)”). Features of this period are vision of nature and scholarly officials’ participation in the art field. These officials expressed their political view and cultivated themselves through natural images (Department of Asian Art). Guo-Xi was one of the prominent painters in this era. As a well educated court professional, he took a side with peasantry or poor people so, emperor Huizong wanted him to spread out the harmonious social atmosphere as a representative. Even though he was a high ranking official, he valued different perspectives from different people and classes. So, his painting style includes “angle of totality” which connotes different views that reflect his life belief (The Famous Artist). Guo-Xi. Early Spring. 1072. Ink and color on silk. National Palace Museum. Taipei This is a Guo-Xi’s most popular masterpiece called Early Spring. He expressed landscape of spring after winter by showing mountain surrounded by clouds. By using the floating perspective, another name of an angle...
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...The key difference is Liang Kai used a different technique on those two painting one is Sakyamuni Returning from the Mountains, the other one is the Immortal in Splashed Ink. Sakyamuni Returning from the Mountains depicts an image of Sakyamuni, who failed to attain wisdom, in spite of a long period of ascetic practices, descending from his abode on the mountain. The first one is colored portraiture, the second is black and white, the first one we can see more details, such as the texture of the tree. Its precise and realistic expression is great and It is a masterpiece of Liang Kai's color figure painting. But in the second only a few brushes with no details, are used to describe characters with large brush strokes. The Immortal in Splashed...
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...form to poetic images as well as emotions. He was especially interested in conveying the hints of seasons and times of day in his paintings. In this particular painting Old Trees, Level Distance, it looks as if the painting was done for a fellow government official the night before he retires. You can see the leafless trees as well as what appears to be an elderly couple approaching a pavilion. The artist uses shading as well as colors to show the appearance of mist in the painting. Art Time Line Final Project 3 Figure 2 (960-1127) Summer Mountains Northern Song Dynasty Attributed to Qu Ding Hand Scroll; ink and pale color on silk Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Between the years 900 and 1100, the Chinese painters created visions of landscape that portrayed the sublimity of creation. People are meant to identify with the human figures in these paintings. In the painting Summer Mountains, travelers make their way toward a temple retreat. The artist shows advanced use of texture strokes as well as ink wash in his painting. The artist uses shading to show depth in his work as well. You can get a better idea of the time frame of when the painting was created by the advancement of painting styles to determine the painting was probably finished around...
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...THE JOURNEY SO FAR Name Class Date The Chinese have a rich history of painting that is considered an enduring form of art and known all over the world. Traditionally, Chinese painting has been done on thin silk or rice paper, using various types of brushes, ink, and dye. The paintings cover a number of topics namely landscape, portrait, birds, flowers, insects, and animals. The traditional Chinese painting is called guo hua. It is done using a brush that is dipped in a black or colored ink usually on silk or paper. The traditional painting has also been done on porcelain, walls, or lacquer ware. Contemporary Chinese painting focuses both on the traditional and current topics such as politics. The traditional painting Winty Trees, a hanging Scroll by Wen Zhengming and the contemporary work of art Hiding in the City No. 2-Suo Jia Village by Liu Bolin have different and similar features. Liu draws himself standing in front a building that is half dismantled with debris scattered all over. He is painted into his surrounding where he can be seen covering himself from one toe to the other with the shapes and colors similar to the background. Therefore, Liu dissolves himself into the background to become invisible. The photograph documents the performance as well as the product of Liu’s artistic creation. The work combines photograph, painting, performance, and artistic vision. It also depicts Liu as a good planner and smart painter. Also...
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...underscoring an intensified competition between Chinese auctioneers and their foreign rivals in the booming art market. Over 300 collectors packed the auction hall at the one-day sale by China Guardian, which offered more than 300 Chinese paintings and calligraphy including works from renowned artists Zhang Daqian and Qi Baishi. The sale, expected to fetch nearly $24 million, was the firm s first auction outside of mainland China since it was set up in 1993. "This is our first step to go global. We want to be a part of the global art market," China Guardian marketing director Jay Sun told AFP. "We believe there is a huge room and enormous space for the Chinese art market to develop," he said at the sideline of the sale that drew fierce bidding from collectors in the room and by telephone. The star lot at the auction was a 1922 landscape series from Qi painted in colour inks titled "Album of Mountains and Rivers", which fetched HK$46 million ($5.9 million), nearly doubled its pre-sale estimates. Qi -- who is now ranked the world s second highest valued artist by auction revenue, ahead of Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso -- spent seven years travelling the mountains and rivers of the country for the work. The sale signifies Chinese auctioneers effort to tap into the foreign markets and compete with more established European brand names like Sotheby s and Christie s, which respectively hold at least two sales annually in Hong Kong. Chinese auction houses were almost unheard of just a decade...
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...Yun Gee's overall experience in the Western world was filled with unacceptance as a Chinese Modernist painter. He died living with unfulfilled dream. On the other hand, his works have become a reflection of the Chinese American point of view in times without unity and boundaries set to constrain and control the lives of fellow humans. The painting, 'New Year's Day in San Francisco's China Town' opens the viewer to a grand monumental depiction of China Town in vivid blocks of colors, but the lack of social activity and emptiness of the place lead us to think just that of it. The strokes created rays of light in a hopeful direction. The lack of social activity might relate to an illusion of a place with horizontally hopeful structure. It is an...
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...The difference between Eastern and Western painting At the beginning One day, I read an article in Internet. The guy insists that eastern pictures have more complicated subject and sharp expression than western pictures; however, people evaluate the eastern picture with the western standard so that eastern pictures are low-evaluated. At the moment, I find myself to know nothing about eastern painting, even though I am one of the eastern people. I have learned lots of famous western pictures since middle and high school; on the contrary, no one explained the difference point of view between eastern and western painting. I have little information about eastern picture. Thus, I decide to compare and analyze the difference of each painting at this chance. Comparison & Analysis 1. Perspective on nature Eastern – All things are regarded as a part of nature, even human in eastern picture. Most of the traditional pictures describe a landscape around us; for example, mountain, river, flowers and trees. Look at the picture 1. Even though there is a man in painting, he is not the focus but just a factor of whole nature. Western – Nature is the object to be managed by human in western picture. There exists belief that human is a center of the world and we can use nature for our purpose. According to this trend, there are lots of portraits in western traditional pictures. Look at picture 2 and 3. The most important theme of these pictures is a human...
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...a piece called “The Farm” to express his concern of genetic engineering on plants and animals. The artist covered the bottom of the piece with a soybean field. On top of the plants in the back there is a wild cow and boar, but as they get closer to the front they evolve in size. Then separated by a fence there are small components on the ground. This includes dramatically oversized tomatoes squished in a basket, a blue ribbon with a chinese hairless dog printed on it, and two small mice that differentiate in health conditions. The artist appeals to the viewer's emotion through the use of abstract expression, organization of objects, and use of pathos to inform viewers of the effect of genetic engineering. The artist uses a method known as abstract expression to inform the viewers about the harmful and abnormal effects of genetic engineering. In the far distance there is a wild cow and boar standing close together that are shaded dark, but as the evolve into an average sized cow and pig the color scheme...
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...Timothy Brook in his book Vermeer’s Hat demonstrates seventeenth-century trade and attributes the networks formed in its efforts, to the dawn of globalization. Brook strategically picks pieces done by the infamous Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer to depict the effects of trade on people. Brook gives compelling accounts of traders in their endeavors bringing the paintings alive in every story. The author chose to represent the changes in local values and customs of trade using seven paintings of Vermeer. Brook explains these issues using short stories that tell tales of brave merchants and great kingdoms that resolved to overcome these challenges for the sole purpose of trade also he talks about how certain commodities impacted a large amount of people everywhere around the world. certain commodities change local values and customs. Porcelain, tobacco, and silver were some of the most popular commodities being exchanged during that time periods....
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...Evidence of artistic interest in depicting figures in motion can be seen in art as early as Paleolithic cave paintings. Animals in such paintings were often depicted with multiple sets of legs in superimposed positions. Because the paintings are prehistoric, alternative interpretations are possible, such as the artist simply deciding to change a leg's position and having no means of erasing, but it is very likely that these were early attempts to convey motion.[1] Sequence of images that minimally differ from each other - from the site of the Burnt City in Iran, late half of 3rd millennium B.C. Another example is a 5,200-year old pottery bowl discovered in Shahr-e Sukhteh, Iran. The bowl has five images painted around it that show phases of a goat leaping up to nip at a tree.[2][3] An Egyptian mural approximately 4000 years old, found in the tomb of Khnumhotep at the Beni Hassan cemetery, features a very long series of images that apparently depict the sequence of events in a wrestling match.[4] Ancient Chinese records contain several mentions of devices, including one made by the inventor Ding Huan, that were said to "give an impression of movement" to a series of human or animal figures on them,[5] but these accounts are unclear and may only refer to the actual movement of the figures through space.[6] Seven drawings by Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1510) extending over two folios in the Windsor Collection, Anatomical Studies of the Muscles of the Neck, Shoulder, Chest...
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...According to the Tibetan Buddhism, the cycle of life can be represented vividly through painting. The painting was the only traditionally imaged representation in the past. There is a Japanese art of kusozu, visualizing the nine stages of human decomposing through watercolor painting. The art was inspired by a Buddhist text, Discourse on the Great Wisdom. In particular, the painting Body of a Courtesan in Nine Stages of Decomposition by Kobayashi Eitaku in the 1870s demonstrates the mixed theme of birth and death. The book displays two out of nine stages: the first and the seventh stage. The first stage begins with the pre-death portrait of the subject and the seven stage illustrates how the body consumed by unseen animals. The process of the...
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...The first impressions a person gets when looking at this painting are loss, sympathy and sadness. This painting is painted with Acrylic on a large canvas. It shows a corner of a building that is partly destroyed. Not much of the building can be seen but things beside the corner don’t seem to have that much damage. The building seems to have three storeys and there is a blue commercial sign on the first floor that has red Chinese words. This painting has some blue and red colours but mostly gray. This painting looks like as if a person was took a picture while standing by the corner of the building. Gray is the colour of ash and storm clouds therefore when a person see a painting of something unpleasant that has a lot of gray it makes it more unpleasant. The Gray colour on the painting assists on making it more tragic. The title Apartment tells what’s in the paining directly. The name of the exhibition is self-similar “In mathematics, a self-similar object is exactly or approximately similar to a part of itself” wiki. Most of the paintings in exhibition are similar; they all seem to represent the same time and place which is Beijing after the Sichuan earthquake. Naming the exhibition self-similar is a metaphor; the artist is showing people the pain of different people from different part of the world and delivering the massage that Beijing is one of the places that faced a disaster. So, disasters around the world are the object in this metaphor and Beijing is one of the parts...
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...Buglaj Racing Sideways 13 racers all tied in lead skin changes from white to black from left to white as their uniforms change from black to white color value scale but also cultural value scale all runners running at same space but not getting ahead, this is show theres no progress in racial acceptance * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Fig. 134 Ben Jones Black Fance and Arm Life size plaster casts, acrylic paint on them Blackness is presence of all color, explores own cultural heritage * Fig. 136 Cai Guo Transient Rainbow Multi-color peonies fitted with computer chips 300x600 feet circle is the symbol of the universe for the Chinese brings up ideas of fergility and things changing quickly SIR ISAAC NEWTON***** Spectrum & color wheel Fig. 139 Color mixtures of reflected pigment Mix light means additive process Mix color means subtractive process Fig. 143 Jane Hammond Fallen Primarily warm colors Symbolic work to the war Analogous colors Not real leaves, printed out and sewn together Chiaroscuro- subtle contrast of light & shadow Fig 122 Paul Colin Figure of a Woman Prime example of chiaroscuro Harlem Renaissance Local/true color- actual...
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...The Classical Chinese Art Fund The Classical Chinese Art Fund FR3208 Arts and Antiques Market: Coursework 2 The Classical Chinese Art Fund Content Page 1. The Classical Chinese Art Fund 1.1. What is the Classical Chinese Art Fund? 1.2. Investment Profile of the Fund 1.3. Rationale: The China Factor 1.4. Investment Approach and Strategies 1.4.1. Growth Strategies 1.4.2. Risk Management Strategies 2. Market Analysis 2.1. Art Segmentation 2.1.1. Chinese Calligraphy 2.1.2. Chinese Paintings 2.2. Major Players 2.3. Demand and Supply Analysis 3. Role of Public Institutions and Regulatory Policies 4. The External Competitive Environment 4.1. Correlation between Chosen Sector and other forms of Investment 4.1.1. General Outlook of the Art Fund 4.1.2. Comparative Analysis of the Fund and Other Art Investment Funds 5. Prospective Investment Portfolio of Art Works 6. Conclusion • Appendix The Classical Chinese Art Fund FR3208 Arts and Antiques Market: Coursework 3 The Classical Chinese Art Fund 1. The Classical Chinese Art Fund 1.1. What is the Classical Chinese Art Fund? The Classical Chinese Art Fund is an investment fund approach that capitalizes on the valuable asset class of Classical Chinese Art, specifically Chinese paintings and calligraphy art pieces. Chinese paintings and calligraphy art works are considered ...
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