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Chinese Building Paintings
There is another type of Chinese paintings called painting of buildings, pavilions, palaces, terraces, and towers, which takes ancient Chinese architecture as the theme. Pavilions, palaces, terraces and towers are general reference to the elaborate Chinese architecture. Those buildings are … Continue reading
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Tagged belvederes, buildings, Chinese Paintings, Chinese tower, lou, pavilions, storeys
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Three Branches of Chinese Painting
In terms of topics, Chinese painting can be classified into three branches: human figures, landscapes and flowers-birds. Chinese figure paintings appeared before landscape or flowers-birds paintings. In the early times, the figure painting was aimed to server religious or political … Continue reading
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Tagged branches, brief history, Chinese Figure Paintings, Chinese flower&bird painting, Chinese Paintings, landscapes painting
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Traditional Chinese Painting
Chinese painting is widely considered to be one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. Chinese painting today is known as Guo hua, meaning national painting. As its name, the Chinese painting is painted with the same techniques … Continue reading
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Four Gentlemen in Chinese Paintings
In Chinese art, plants including the orchid, the bamboo, the chrysanthemum, and the plum blossom are called The Four Gentlemen. The Four Gentlemen, also called the Four Noble Ones, The term compares the four plants to Confucianist junzi, or "gentlemen". They … Continue reading
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Tagged Bamboo, Chinese Paintings, chrysanthemum, Flowers of the Four Seasons, Four gentlemen, Lotus, Song dynasty
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Chinese Fish Painting
In China, "fish(鱼)" and "surplus(余)" and "jade（玉）" are homonymic words (all sound "yu"), so fish represents affluence and abundance. China artists often draw the auspicious fishes drawing as carp and goldfish, as "carp(鲤)" and "benefit(利)" are homonymic words in Chinese, and … Continue reading
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Tagged auspicious meanings, Chinese Paintings, different types, fish painting, Symbolic Meaning
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Chinese Flower-and-bird Painting
The flower-and-bird painting is peculiar to China. From of old, all kinds of flowers, plants, and birds were given various symbolic meanings. Flowers and birds can be compared to almost all thoughts and feelings of human being. They can symbolize feminine beauty, … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Chinese paintngs, Flower and Bird Painting, independent, origin, Symbolic Meaning
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Artisoo Gallery Summarized Basic Chinese Painting Skills
The most traditional tools for Chinese painting is pen and ink, pen shaped the figure, ink for meaning, the two complement each other. This article is to share with you some Chinese painting creation for the use of pen and … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese Paintings, concept meaning, ink, pen, skill, techique
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A Brief Talk of Chinese Figure Paintings
Chinese Painting is a traditional painting form of Chinese culture and figure painting is the oldest element in traditional Chinese painting, as everyday scenes were portrayed on the painted pottery which is the representative of the Neolithic Age. From Qin … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese Paintings, figure, history, lady, painting subject, style
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