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Chinese Painting Techniques for Exquisite Watercolors
Known for its simplicity and fluidity of line, traditional Chinese watercolors capture the essence of natural objects with a profound beauty.
Artist Lian Quan Zhen shows newcomers how to paint in this loose, liberating style through a series of basic demonstrations.
Following Zhen's unique watercolor methods, artists will learn to paint entire compositions based on classic Chinese watercolor subjects, including flowers, birds and fish.
Mini-demos help artists to render details, including eyes, scales, feathers, beaks, petals and more.
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Chinese Painting Basics:
The six laws. Three categories of Chinese paintings. Three styles of painting. Materials. Using your materials. Brushstrokes. Stretching your paintings.
Chinese Painting Composition and Basic Painting Techniques:
Composition methods. Detail-style painting techniques. Spontaneous-style painting techniques.
From Chinese Painting to Watercolor:
The authors' experiments and theories on watercolor painting. Varying the composition. Special materials for watercolor.
Painting Birds:
Anatomy of birds. Features of birds. A simple way to sketch birds. Chinese painting demonstrations. Watercolor painting demonstrations.
Painting Fish:
Anatomy of fish. Features of fish. How to sketch fish. Chinese painting demonstrations. Watercolor painting demonstrations. |
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Chinese Art and Culture
This book takes a look at Chinese art within a variety of contexts - archeological, cultural, historical, social, and ritual/religious.
Organized both chronologically and thematically, it covers a full historical span and includes a wide range of media settings for art - from elite to popular.
An emphasis on the dynamic processes that effect the history of Chinese art: social, economic, political competition, urbanization, markets and tastes, and quests for cultural authority, allows specific works of art to be discussed in extensive detail, while setting them within larger explanatory stories.
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Introducing Chinese art and culture. Prehistoric roots: Late Neolithic cultures. The Early Bronze Age: Shang and Western Zhou. The Late Bronze Age: Eastern Zhou. The First Empires: Qin and Han. Age of the Dharma: The Period of Division. A New Imperial State: Sui and Tang. Technologies and Cultures of the Song. Official, personal, and urban arts of the Yuan to Middle Ming. Art systems and circulations: Late Ming to Middle Qing. Identity and community in 19th and 20th centurt chinese art. |
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Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution in China produced thousands of powerful social and political posters exhorting the Chinese people in a sweeping transformation of Chinese society. These brilliantly colorful images of cultural celebration, industrial development, agricultural production, and revolutionary heroes were displayed in homes and public spaces across the country.
Chinese Posters collects more than 150 of the most striking of these posters and offers background on their social and political context and production. An essay by Ann Tompkins provides a personal account of living in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution.
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Introduction. Revolutionary Chinese Posters and their impact abroad. People, poverty, politics, and posters.
Nature and transformation. Production and mechanization. Women hold up half the sky. Serve the people. Solidarity. Politics in command. After the Cultural Revolution. |
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Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs: A Comprehensive Handbook on Symbolism in Chinese Art through the Ages
Gain a deeper appreciation for Chinese art and architecture by understanding its symbols. The Yin and Yang, dragon, phoenix, five elements, and other symbols are explained in their historical and cultural context. Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs also includes articles on Chinese beliefs, customs, arts and crafts, foods, agriculture and medicine.
Originally published in 1941, this is the standard reference book, with over 400 illustrations to help clarify and define this ancient, complex culture.
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Chinese Jade: Power and Delicacy in a Majestic Art (Arts of China)
Jade is one of the most profoundly beautiful masterworks of Chinese art. This illustrated volume explores the history and variety of China's greatest jade masterpieces throughout history.
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Searching for jade. Defining jade quality. Symbols of good fortune. The Emperor's insatiable appetite for jade. Legends of ancient jade objects. Traditions and treasures. Distinguishing real from fake. For the collector. The assessment of jade.
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Worlds Within Worlds - The Richard Rosenblum Collection of Chinese Scholars' Rocks
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Chinese Seals: Carving Authority and Creating History (Arts of China)
Throughout Chinese history the seal has long shown the way for the cultural, social, economic, and societal progression of Chinese culture. This volume explores the remarkable world of Chinese seals in all their varieties and uses.
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The history of Chinese seals. Seals of the Warring States Period. Seals of the Qin Dynasty. Seals of the Han Dynasty. Seals of the Six Dynasties. Tang and Song Seals: strict rules. Song and Yuan private seals: diversified styles. The Ming Dynasty: new vistas of scholarly seal carving. Seals in the Early Qing Dynasty. The simple style of the Xileng School. Deng School and Xi School. Seal carvers in the Late Qing Dynasty. Varieties of Seal Knobs in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Chronological table of Chinese dynasties. |
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Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art
Chinese workers in the third century b.c. created seven thousand life-sized terracotta soldiers to guard the tomb of the First Emperor. In the eleventh century a.d., Chinese builders constructed a pagoda from as many as thirty thousand separately carved wooden pieces. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, China exported more than a hundred million pieces of porcelain to the West. As these examples show, the Chinese throughout history have produced works of art in astonishing quantities -- and have done so without sacrificing quality, affordability, or speed of manufacture. How have they managed this? Lothar Ledderose takes us on a remarkable tour of Chinese art and culture to explain how artists used complex systems of mass production to assemble extraordinary objects from standardized parts or modules. As he reveals, these systems have deep roots in Chinese thought -- in the idea that the universe consists of ten thousand categories of things, for example -- and reflect characteristically Chinese modes of social organization.
Ledderose begins with the modular system par excellence: Chinese script, an ancient system of fifty thousand characters produced from a repertoire of only about two hundred components. He shows how Chinese artists used related modular systems to create ritual bronzes, to produce the First Emperor's terracotta army, and to develop the world's first printing systems. He explores the dazzling variety of lacquerware and porcelain that the West found so seductive, and examines how works as diverse as imperial palaces and paintings of hell relied on elegant variation of standardized components. Ledderose explains that Chinese artists, unlike their Western counterparts, did not seek to reproduce individual objects of nature faithfully, but sought instead to mimic nature's ability to produce limitless numbers of objects. He shows as well how modular patterns of thought run through Chinese ideas about personal freedom, China's culture of bureaucracy, Chinese religion, and even the organization of Chinese restaurants.
Originally presented as a series of Mellon lectures at the National Gallery of Art, Ten Thousand Things combines keen aesthetic and cultural insights with a rich variety of illustrations to make a profound new statement about Chinese art and society.
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The system of script. Casting bronze the complicated way. A magic army for the Emperor. Factory art. Building blocks, brackets, and beams. The word in print. The bureaucracy of hell. Freedom of the brush? |
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The Arts of China (An Ahmanson Murphy Fine Arts Book)
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From the 4th Edition
Before the Dawn of History. The Shang Dynasty. The Zhou Dynasty. The Period of the Warring States. The Qin and Han dynasties. The Three kingdoms and the Six Dynasties. The Sui and Tang dynasties. The Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty. The Twentieth Century.
5th Edition description
For the fifth edition of his internationally renowned "The Arts of China", Michael Sullivan has thoroughly revised and expanded every chapter of this classic history of Chinese art from the Neolithic period to the present day. This new edition reflects the latest archaeological discoveries, pays greater attention to the art of calligraphy, provides more information on Chan (Zen) art, and takes a close look at contemporary art. New images have been added to almost every chapter: the work now features more than four hundred photographs, maps, and illustrations, with more than two-thirds of them in full color. Written in the engaging and lucid style that is Sullivan's hallmark, "The Arts of China" is readily accessible to general readers as well as serious students of art history. Sullivan's approach remains true to the way the Chinese themselves view art, providing readers with a sense of the sweep of history through China's dynasties. This organizational strategy makes it easy for readers to understand the distinct characteristics of each period of art and to gain a clearer view of how Chinese art has changed in relation to its historical context. With many improvements that bring it fully up to date, "The Arts of China" will remain the most comprehensive and widely read introduction to the history of Chinese art. |
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The Complete 'Chinese Ornament' - All 100 Color Plates (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
From one of the most beautiful books on the decorative arts ever published: reproductions of classic full-color renderings by the great Victorian designer Owen Jones of design elements in Chinese porcelain and cloisonné antiquities now in the The Victoria and Albert Museum.
Reprinted from the original plates made in 1867, these illustrations represent copyright-free inspiration for artists, illustrators, and designers, as well as an excellent browsing book for lovers of the decorative arts.
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Traditional Chinese Designs with 218 Illustrations (Dover Design Library)
Over 200 royalty-free motifs: dragons, peonies, plum blossoms, tigers, clouds, geometrics, other favorites.
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The Yin / Yang of Painting: A Contemporary Master Reveals the Secrets of Painting Found in Ancient Chinese Philosophy
Through the harmonious balancing of opposites, the ancient Chinese philosophy of yin yang is beautifully applied to the art of painting in an illuminating, results-oriented instructional for artists of all levels.
According to this time-honored system, successful art is based on balanced energies and the control of contrasting elements within a work. This remarkably simple approach is presented in two seamless parts.
Part One examines the traditional elements of painting-from value (light/dark) and texture (thick/thin) to color (warm/cold) and brushwork (sharp/blurred) - as evolving from a true balance of opposites.
Part Two's step-by-step demonstrations focus on major genres of painting-still life, landscape, and the figure-employing all the yin-yang principles for the completion of successful paintings.
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Value: Contrasts. Value range. Value can guide composition. The Chi Rhythm of painting.
Color Temperature: Warm/Cool. Start with a color study. Color creates mood. Color temperature scales.
Color Intensity: Vivid/Quiet. Combining primaries. Chromatic neutrals. Earth tones and pastels.
Complementary Hues: Opposites attract. Three Yin/Yang palettes. Creating form.
Texture: Consistency variations. Thick/Thin; Opaque/Transparent. Glazed finish. Brushwork variations.
Still Life Painting: Focus on familiar objects. Demonstration: flowers, fruit, cloth. Demonstration: varied textures.
Landscape Painting: Painting on location. Using one Yin/Yang palette. Demonstration: fall foliage. Demonstration: serene scene.
Figure Painting: Human forms and faces. The nude. Clothed figures. Demonstration: female nude. Demonstration: portrait of a child. Demonstration: glazing.
Multifigure Compositions: Portraying groups of people. Movement pattern. Demonstration: small group - interior setting. Demonstration: large group - outdoor setting. |
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Chinese Cut-Paper Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
Modern paper-cuttings from Mainland China: horses, pandas, butterflies, flowers, fish, peacocks, monkeys, phoenixes, lanterns, vases, landscapes, other traditional and modern motifs—printed solid red, black, blue or green. Often amount to silhouettes. Oriental feeling, decorations for graphics, various crafts.
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Paradise and Plumage - Chinese Connections in Tibetan Arhat Painting
A visually stunning inaugural catalog of the Rubin Museum of Art, New York. This 104-page volume celebrates and explores the artistic exchange between Tibet and China from the 13th to the 19th century, taking the theme of Buddhist Arhat painting as a concise lens through which to view the wider ramifications of artistic and cultural interaction. Examining the exchange of motifs, compositions, and modes of representation, "Paradise & Plumage" reveals the creative reassignment of meaning when Tibetan artists appropriate aspects that may derive from older Chinese traditions and vice versa.
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Kingfisher Blue: Treasures of an Ancient Chinese Art
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The Techniques of Chinese Painting
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Firecrackers: An Eye-popping Collection of Chinese Firework Art
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Chinese Designs (Design Source Books)
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Chinese Buddhist Art (Images of Asia)
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Between Two Cultures: Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Chinese Painting from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection
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Art in China (Oxford History of Art)
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Chinese Watercolor Techniques - Painting Animals
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Traditional and Contemporary Chinese Brush Painting: Using Ink and Water Soluble Media
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The Double Screen: Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting
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Pattern Sourcebook: Chinese Style: 250 Patterns for Projects and Designs
This book offers a collection of Chinese-style decorative patterns in print format and as JPEG and PSD files on a companion CD-ROM.
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Flower Pattern: Flower circular pattern - 1. Flower circular pattern - 2. Flower circular pattern - 3. Ornament - 1. Ornament - 2. Ornament - 3-1. Ornament - 3-2.
Animal Pattern: Dragon pattern - 1. Dragon pattern - 1. Phoenix pattern. Peacock pattern. Butterfly pattern.
Linear Pattern: Linear flower pattern - 1. Linear flower pattern - 2. Linear flower pattern - 3. Linear patterns of floral arabesque and graphic pattern - 1. Linear patterns of floral arabesque and graphic pattern - 2. Linear patterns of floral arabesque and graphic pattern - 3. Linear patterns of floral arabesque and graphic pattern - 4. Linear patterns of floral arabesque and graphic pattern - 5.
Frame Pattern: Floral arabesque. Graphic pattern. Creature. Flower.
Cloud Pattern: Cloud.
Character Pattern: Longevity (Kotobuki, Shou). Happiness (Ki, Xi). Blessing, Good Fortune, Good Luck (fuku/Fu).
Lattice Pattern. Partition/Transom/Railing - 1-4. Furniture/Window - 1-3.
Corner Pattern. Wall/Partition lattice - 1. Wall/Partition lattice - 2. Ceiling. |
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Chinese Festivals - New Year Paintings and Holiday Celebrations (Arts of China)
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Modern Chinese Art (Images of Asia)
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Chinese Contemporary Art 7 Things You Should Know
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Contemporary art in China began decades ago. Chinese contemporary art is more diverse than you might think. Museums and galleries have promoted Chinese contemporary art since the 1990s. Government censorship has an influence on Chinese artists, and sometimes still is. The Chinese artists' diaspora is returning to China. Contemporary art mueseums in China are on the rise. The world is collecting Chinese contemporary art. Conclusion. |
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