28 Facts About Chinese painting

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Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world.

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Traditional Chinese painting involves essentially the same techniques as calligraphy and is done with a brush dipped in black ink or coloured pigments; oils are not used.

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Traditional Chinese painting can be done on album sheets, walls, lacquerware, folding screens, and other media.

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Much of what we know of early Chinese figure painting comes from burial sites, where paintings were preserved on silk banners, lacquered objects, and tomb walls.

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Figure Chinese painting reached the height of elegant realism in the art of the court of Southern Tang.

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Ever since the Southern and Northern dynasties, Chinese painting had become an art of high sophistication that was associated with the gentry class as one of their main artistic pastimes, the others being calligraphy and poetry.

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The literati's Chinese painting was simpler and at times quite unschooled, yet they would criticize these other two groups as mere professionals, since they relied on paid commissions for their livelihood and did not paint merely for enjoyment or self-expression.

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Chinese painting are of all peoples the most skilful in crafts and attain the greatest perfection in them.

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Some artists who studied in Europe rejected Chinese painting; others tried to combine the best of both traditions.

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10.

Exchanges were set up with groups of foreign artists, and Chinese painting artists began to experiment with new subjects and techniques.

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11.

Chinese painting continues to play an essential role in Chinese cultural expression.

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12.

The Chinese painting reflects a slow pace and peaceful idyllic style of living.

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Emperor Huizong personally painted a Chinese painting called Birds in a blossom wax-plum tree, features with two “hoary headed birds, ” “Baitou weng” resting on a tree branch together.

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In emperor Zhezong's lecture hall, a Chinese painting depicting stories form Zhou dynasty was hanging on the wall to remind Zhezong how to be a good ruler of the empire.

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The Chinese painting serves the purpose of expressing his determination to his court officers that he is an enlightened emperor.

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The theme of his Chinese painting is suggesting the immortal realm which accord with the entire theme of the Jade Hall provides to its viewer the feeling of otherworldliness.

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Artist Zhang Xuan produced Chinese painting named palace women listening to music that captured women's elegance and pretty faces.

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The only difference is that in Zhou's Chinese painting, there are five mountain ranges that arranges from right to left.

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The Taoist love of nature is not always present in Chinese landscape painting but gradually developed from Six Dynasties period when Taoists Lao-tzu, Chuang-tzu, the Pao-p'u tzu's thoughts are reflected in literature documents.

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Thus, the landscape Chinese painting come into display Buddha's image in people's everyday ritual practice.

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The Chinese painting contains both the spiritual force and the truth (li) of Buddha and the objects that no longer physically presence.

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In Chinese painting society, there is a long-time appreciation of natural beauty.

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Landscape Chinese painting evolved under the influence of Taoist who fled from civil turbulence and prosecution of the government and went back to the wilderness.

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Han rulers only favored portrait Chinese painting which enabled their image to be perpetuate and their civilians to see and to memorize their great leaders or generals.

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Every landscape Chinese painting is restricted by storytelling and is dependent on artists memory.

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26.

Shanshui in Chinese painting tradition is given rich meaning, for example mountain represents Yang and river indicates Yin.

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Early Chinese painting map making considered earth surface as flat, so artists would not take projection into consideration.

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Changjiang Wan Li Tu, although the date and the authorship are not clear, the Chinese painting is believed to be made in Song dynasty by examining the place names recorded on the Chinese painting.

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