Poetic imagery
2 years, 9 months ago

Poetic imagery

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Legendary Mountains of China, an ink work by Fang Jun, draws a crowd of viewers at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY Exhibited works of Fang Jun display his devoted research on classical Chinese painting, Lin Qi reports. Atmospheric poetry of the Song Dynasty, considered a peak of Chinese literature, nurtured Fang Jun, the late ink artist and a former professor at Nanjing University of the Arts. Fang, who specialized in classical Chinese landscape painting, created an output visualizing the feelings expressed in Song poetry, which is marked by elegance, splendor and a vivid imagery.

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Ink artist brings his land to life in landscape works
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Ink artist brings his land to life in landscape works

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Xue Liang's landscape paintings are on display at the National Art Museum of China. The energy delivered by Xue's strokes reminds one of Fu Baoshi, a great landscape artist of the 20th century who more than six decades ago led a team of Jiangsu painters to travel across the country, depicting "new scenery" after the founding of the People's Republic …

A Journey Through the Mogao Caves: Exploring the Vision of a Master Painter
2 months, 1 week ago

A Journey Through the Mogao Caves: Exploring the Vision of a Master Painter

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An exhibition showcasing the works of artist Chang Shuhong, who played a significant role in preserving and promoting the Mogao Caves, is currently on display at the Zhejiang Provincial Museum in Hangzhou. Visitors can explore the artist's journey through the caves, with his paintings reflecting the beauty and cultural significance of the place.

What's on
3 months, 1 week ago

What's on

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Poetic painting A poetic sense with philosophical overtones has long been pursued by Chinese landscape painters. When layering strokes either boldly or subtly, artists tried to build a spiritual link with the universe and to give the viewers a sense of time and space, while leaving room for imagination and meditation. Poetry in Chinese Mountains and Waters Paintings is a …

Guangdong exhibition celebrates iconic Qing Dynasty artist
5 months ago

Guangdong exhibition celebrates iconic Qing Dynasty artist

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Visitors at the exhibition, Elegance, Refinement, Style: Paintings of Hua Yan, in Guangdong Museum. ZHENG ERQI/CHINA DAILY An exhibition featuring Qing Dynasty artist Hua Yan, which opened at Guangdong Museum on July 10 in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, allows audiences to sense and appreciate the essence and beauty of landscape paintings from the dynasty. Hua was known for his …

Guangdong exhibition celebrates iconic Qing Dynasty artist
5 months ago

Guangdong exhibition celebrates iconic Qing Dynasty artist

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Visitors at the exhibition, Elegance, Refinement, Style: Paintings of Hua Yan, in Guangdong Museum. ZHENG ERQI/CHINA DAILY An exhibition featuring Qing Dynasty artist Hua Yan, which opened at Guangdong Museum on July 10 in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, allows audiences to sense and appreciate the essence and beauty of landscape paintings from the dynasty. Hua was known for his …

Ink artist's landscape painting bridging tradition and modernity
6 months ago

Ink artist's landscape painting bridging tradition and modernity

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Ink painter Lyu Cuixia's new landscape paintings show her recent progress in the genre of ink tradition. When Lyu Cuixia joined veteran artist Lu Yushun's studio at the China National Academy of Painting years ago, she was already a skilled landscape painter adept at capturing natural marvels and personal sentiments, as noted by Lu. At Lyu's current exhibition at the …

Ink artist's landscape painting bridging tradition and modernity
6 months ago

Ink artist's landscape painting bridging tradition and modernity

China Daily  

Ink painter Lyu Cuixia's new landscape paintings show her recent progress in the genre of ink tradition. When Lyu Cuixia joined veteran artist Lu Yushun's studio at the China National Academy of Painting years ago, she was already a skilled landscape painter adept at capturing natural marvels and personal sentiments, as noted by Lu. At Lyu's current exhibition at the …

Ink artist's landscape painting bridging tradition and modernity
6 months ago

Ink artist's landscape painting bridging tradition and modernity

China Daily  

Ink painter Lyu Cuixia's new landscape paintings show her recent progress in the genre of ink tradition. When Lyu Cuixia joined veteran artist Lu Yushun's studio at the China National Academy of Painting years ago, she was already a skilled landscape painter adept at capturing natural marvels and personal sentiments, as noted by Lu. At Lyu's current exhibition at the …

Ink artist draws on imagination
6 months ago

Ink artist draws on imagination

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Measuring 6 meters wide and 1.8 meters high, An Operatic Mood by Han Shuo, depicts a daily scene at a Peking Opera garden with more than 30 performers in exquisite costumes, singing, reciting, acting and practicing. Ink artist Han Shuo says painting demands the ability to coordinate smartly. More than 100 ink figure paintings from Han's industrious output since the …

Ink artist draws on imagination
6 months ago

Ink artist draws on imagination

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Measuring 6 meters wide and 1.8 meters high, An Operatic Mood by Han Shuo, depicts a daily scene at a Peking Opera garden with more than 30 performers in exquisite costumes, singing, reciting, acting and practicing. Ink artist Han Shuo says painting demands the ability to coordinate smartly. More than 100 ink figure paintings from Han's industrious output since the …

Framing a portrait of innovation
6 months, 1 week ago

Framing a portrait of innovation

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Lyricist-poet Wu Yunzhao depicted by renowned Ming-dynasty portraitist Zeng Jing, with the landscape painted by Hu Zongxin. "A camera of the Ming " is how Yang Danxia, an expert on ancient Chinese painting from the prestigious Palace Museum in Beijing, describes Zeng Jing, a leading portraitist active in the late 16th century to mid-17th century China. "Zeng brought something new …

Framing a portrait of innovation
6 months, 1 week ago

Framing a portrait of innovation

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Lyricist-poet Wu Yunzhao depicted by renowned Ming-dynasty portraitist Zeng Jing, with the landscape painted by Hu Zongxin. "A camera of the Ming " is how Yang Danxia, an expert on ancient Chinese painting from the prestigious Palace Museum in Beijing, describes Zeng Jing, a leading portraitist active in the late 16th century to mid-17th century China. "Zeng brought something new …

Ink works blend power and serenity at Ningbo exhibition
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Ink works blend power and serenity at Ningbo exhibition

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Yue Zengguang is showing his landscape paintings in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. Renowned for his distinctive artistic style, Yue Zengguang infuses vigor and masculinity into the natural elements of mountains, rivers, and trees through sharp outlines in his ink paintings. Yue's captivating artworks are currently on display at the Ningbo branch of Rongbaozhai, a cherished antique brand, in Zhejiang province. Titled …

Ink works blend power and serenity at Ningbo exhibition
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Ink works blend power and serenity at Ningbo exhibition

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Yue Zengguang is showing his landscape paintings in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. Renowned for his distinctive artistic style, Yue Zengguang infuses vigor and masculinity into the natural elements of mountains, rivers, and trees through sharp outlines in his ink paintings. Yue's captivating artworks are currently on display at the Ningbo branch of Rongbaozhai, a cherished antique brand, in Zhejiang province. Titled …

Ink works blend power and serenity at Ningbo exhibition
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Ink works blend power and serenity at Ningbo exhibition

China Daily  

Yue Zengguang is showing his landscape paintings in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. Renowned for his distinctive artistic style, Yue Zengguang infuses vigor and masculinity into the natural elements of mountains, rivers, and trees through sharp outlines in his ink paintings. Yue's captivating artworks are currently on display at the Ningbo branch of Rongbaozhai, a cherished antique brand, in Zhejiang province. Titled …

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art

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This landscape painting of an album by Wang Jian was made in response to a line of poetry by Du Fu. Those are the lines from Wang Wei that I believe Tang had in mind," said Dolberg, who described the painting as having been executed in the "strength and grandeur of the northern school " while capturing the "light meditative …

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art

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Visitors appreciate the artworks of the exhibition Vision and Verse: The Poetry of Chinese Painting at the Met Fifth Avenue galleries in New York. SU QIANG/CHINA DAILY Literati painting Self-expression, filtered through literary sensibilities, was at the heart of a unique Chinese art phenomenon known as "the literati painting", of which Zhao Mengfu was a powerful exponent. Zhao came up …

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art

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Wangchuan Villa, by an unidentified artist, is on exhibition at The Met Fifth Avenue galleries in New York. CHINA DAILY "As there happened to be a volume of Du Fu's poetry on the table, I selected one suitable couplet for inscription on each of my landscapes," wrote Wang Jian, a much celebrated painter living in 17th-century China, on the final …

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art

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Visitors appreciate the artworks of the exhibition Vision and Verse: The Poetry of Chinese Painting at the Met Fifth Avenue galleries in New York. SU QIANG/CHINA DAILY Literati painting Self-expression, filtered through literary sensibilities, was at the heart of a unique Chinese art phenomenon known as "the literati painting", of which Zhao Mengfu was a powerful exponent. Zhao came up …

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art

China Daily  

Wangchuan Villa, by an unidentified artist, is on exhibition at The Met Fifth Avenue galleries in New York. CHINA DAILY "As there happened to be a volume of Du Fu's poetry on the table, I selected one suitable couplet for inscription on each of my landscapes," wrote Wang Jian, a much celebrated painter living in 17th-century China, on the final …

Renowned ink painter gifts cultural park to hometown
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Renowned ink painter gifts cultural park to hometown

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Landscape artist Yang Liuyi has donated his work to a newly opened culture park in his home village in Henan province. In a heartwarming gesture, acclaimed ink painter Yang Liuyi unveiled a cultural park in Daxing village, Suiping county, Zhumadian of Henan province, as a token of gratitude to his roots. The park, adorned with galleries, libraries, and various public …

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art

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Azure Cliff with Red Maplesby Ming Dynasty painter Wu Bin. Literati painting Self-expression, filtered through literary sensibilities, was at the heart of a unique Chinese art phenomenon known as "the literati painting", of which Zhao Mengfu was a powerful exponent. Zhao came up with the idea that "calligraphy and painting share the same source", which may sound to some like …

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art

China Daily  

This landscape painting of an album by Wang Jian was made in response to a line of poetry by Du Fu. "As there happened to be a volume of Du Fu's poetry on the table, I selected one suitable couplet for inscription on each of my landscapes," wrote Wang Jian, a much celebrated painter living in 17th-century China, on the …

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art

China Daily  

This landscape painting of an album by Wang Jian was made in response to a line of poetry by Du Fu. Those are the lines from Wang Wei that I believe Tang had in mind," said Dolberg, who described the painting as having been executed in the "strength and grandeur of the northern school " while capturing the "light meditative …

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art

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By Zhao Xu | China Daily | Updated: 2024-05-28 14:59 This landscape painting of an album by Wang Jian was made in response to a line of poetry by Du Fu. "As there happened to be a volume of Du Fu's poetry on the table, I selected one suitable couplet for inscription on each of my landscapes," wrote Wang Jian, …

Renowned ink painter gifts cultural park to hometown
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Renowned ink painter gifts cultural park to hometown

China Daily  

Landscape artist Yang Liuyi has donated his work to a newly opened culture park in his home village in Henan province. In a heartwarming gesture, acclaimed ink painter Yang Liuyi unveiled a cultural park in Daxing village, Suiping county, Zhumadian of Henan province, as a token of gratitude to his roots. The park, adorned with galleries, libraries, and various public …

Renowned ink painter gifts cultural park to hometown
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Renowned ink painter gifts cultural park to hometown

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By Lin Qi | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-05-28 11:18 Landscape artist Yang Liuyi has donated his work to a newly opened culture park in his home village in Henan province. In a heartwarming gesture, acclaimed ink painter Yang Liuyi unveiled a cultural park in Daxing village, Suiping county, Zhumadian of Henan province, as a token of gratitude to his roots. …

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art

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Wangchuan Villa, by an unidentified artist, is on exhibition at The Met Fifth Avenue galleries in New York. "As graceful as Meng Haoran was in a Wang Wei painting", was how a renowned Song-dynasty calligrapher described a painting by early-Song artist Li Cheng that shows a scholar and his boy attendant traveling in a wintry forest. Mining the legacy of …

Renowned ink painter gifts cultural park to hometown
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Renowned ink painter gifts cultural park to hometown

China Daily  

Landscape artist Yang Liuyi has donated his work to a newly opened culture park in his home village in Henan province. In a heartwarming gesture, acclaimed ink painter Yang Liuyi unveiled a cultural park in Daxing village, Suiping county, Zhumadian of Henan province, as a token of gratitude to his roots. The park, adorned with galleries, libraries, and various public …

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art

China Daily  

This landscape painting of an album by Wang Jian was made in response to a line of poetry by Du Fu. "As there happened to be a volume of Du Fu's poetry on the table, I selected one suitable couplet for inscription on each of my landscapes," wrote Wang Jian, a much celebrated painter living in 17th-century China, on the …

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art

China Daily  

This landscape painting of an album by Wang Jian was made in response to a line of poetry by Du Fu. "As there happened to be a volume of Du Fu's poetry on the table, I selected one suitable couplet for inscription on each of my landscapes," wrote Wang Jian, a much celebrated painter living in 17th-century China, on the …

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art

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Azure Cliff with Red Maples by Ming Dynasty painter Wu Bin. The painting doesn't identify the man, but Dolberg believes he is Du's contemporary Meng Haoran who, by the time of the Song Dynasty, had already come to embody what the curator calls "the visual iconography of the donkey rider", providing Chinese art history with the image of a suffering …

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art

China Daily  

Wangchuan Villa, by an unidentified artist, is on exhibition at The Met Fifth Avenue galleries in New York. CHINA DAILY "As there happened to be a volume of Du Fu's poetry on the table, I selected one suitable couplet for inscription on each of my landscapes," wrote Wang Jian, a much celebrated painter living in 17th-century China, on the final …

China's ancient artworks in the international frame
8 months ago

China's ancient artworks in the international frame

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China Daily's digital employee Yuanxi travels into the digital version of the book project A Comprehensive Collection of Ancient Chinese Paintings. All the works are from or are inspired by A Comprehensive Collection of Ancient Chinese Paintings, a large book project that has systematically compiled images of paintings, some of which date back 2,000 years. One is an archive displaying …

China's ancient artworks in the international frame
8 months ago

China's ancient artworks in the international frame

China Daily  

China Daily's digital employee Yuanxi travels into the digital version of the book project A Comprehensive Collection of Ancient Chinese Paintings. All the works are from or are inspired by A Comprehensive Collection of Ancient Chinese Paintings, a large book project that has systematically compiled images of paintings, some of which date back 2,000 years. One is an archive displaying …

Landscapes, country people and homesickness highlighted under strokes
8 months, 1 week ago

Landscapes, country people and homesickness highlighted under strokes

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Fang Xiangming's works show landscapes and people in his hometown in Zhejiang province. Fang Xiangming's landscape paintings evoke the spirit of the Barbizon School, known for its regal depictions of the fields, woods, and people of Barbizon, near Paris, creating a sanctuary for the soul. However, Fang's work takes on a distinct mood as he captures the landscapes and inhabitants …

Landscapes, country people and homesickness highlighted under strokes
8 months, 1 week ago

Landscapes, country people and homesickness highlighted under strokes

China Daily  

Fang Xiangming's works show landscapes and people in his hometown in Zhejiang province. Fang Xiangming's landscape paintings evoke the spirit of the Barbizon School, known for its regal depictions of the fields, woods, and people of Barbizon, near Paris, creating a sanctuary for the soul. However, Fang's work takes on a distinct mood as he captures the landscapes and inhabitants …

Artworks explore modern interpretations of landscape
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Artworks explore modern interpretations of landscape

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A visitor in front of a painting by Yu Youhan. A new exhibition at the Jiushi Art Museum in Shanghai explores modern interpretations of the landscape, a most important subject in Chinese art for centuries. Held from April 3 to June 2, Mountain Water Wandering features 37 groups of artworks by 12 contemporary Chinese artists, such as Cao Xiaoyang, Jin …

Brush up on the past
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Brush up on the past

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A painting from Huang Binhong's Flowers Album, on display at the show Immortal Legacy in Beijing. Nearly seven decades after his death, Huang Binhong's art remains visually unappealing and just as difficult to comprehend as ever for many members of the public. Now hailed as one of the greatest ink artists of 20th-century China, Huang created a distinctive vocabulary of …

What's on
1 year ago

What's on

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Colorful wind Having grown up in Changchun, Jilin province, oil artist Wang Jianguo centers his work around the distinctive landscapes and social life of northeastern China. An ongoing solo exhibition at the Yunnan Art Museum, Soft Wind on the Earth, brings dozens of Wang's oils to Kunming, in which he introduces people in the southwest to the changing views of …

Voyaging to reveal the verse
1 year, 1 month ago

Voyaging to reveal the verse

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The Way to Poetry, by Lin Haizhong and his team, a piece of artwork shown at the Gallery of Calligraphy and Painting Channel in Beijing's Olympic Forest Park until Dec 21. Back in the late 1980s, Zhu Yuebing, a scholar from Shaoxing in Zhejiang province with a passion for Tang Dynasty poetry, started a research movement dubbed "the trail of …

What's on
1 year, 1 month ago

What's on

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Colorful vision In Chinese, the term jingse is composed of two characters, jing, meaning landscape, and se, meaning color, which stresses the importance of color arrangements in natural scenery. Jing Se, an exhibition currently on display at the Suzhou Art Museum in Jiangsu province, centers on the modern development of qinglyu landscape paintings. Surreal approach Huang Yuxing has earned fame …

What's on
1 year, 1 month ago

What's on

China Daily  

Colorful vision In Chinese, the term jingse is composed of two characters, jing, meaning landscape, and se, meaning color, which stresses the importance of color arrangements in natural scenery. Jing Se, an exhibition currently on display at the Suzhou Art Museum in Jiangsu province, centers on the modern development of qinglyu landscape paintings. Surreal approach Huang Yuxing has earned fame …

Scrolls of beautiful Xiaoxiang unfold the past and present of Hunan
1 year, 1 month ago

Scrolls of beautiful Xiaoxiang unfold the past and present of Hunan

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Great Beauty of Xiaoxiang, an exhibition at the National Art Museum of China, celebrates the natural and cultural landscapes of Hunan. The beauty of the Xiaojiang and Xiangjiang rivers, in Hunan province, has been presented in poems, paintings and historic stories, one of the famous works associated with the rivers being the tale of Erhuang and Nyuying jumping into over …

Scrolls of beautiful Xiaoxiang unfold the past and present of Hunan
1 year, 1 month ago

Scrolls of beautiful Xiaoxiang unfold the past and present of Hunan

China Daily  

Great Beauty of Xiaoxiang, an exhibition at the National Art Museum of China, celebrates the natural and cultural landscapes of Hunan. The beauty of the Xiaojiang and Xiangjiang rivers, in Hunan province, has been presented in poems, paintings and historic stories, one of the famous works associated with the rivers being the tale of Erhuang and Nyuying jumping into over …

Classic works present a landscape of humans in harmony with nature
1 year, 2 months ago

Classic works present a landscape of humans in harmony with nature

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Landscape, a painting by Ming Dynasty painter Zhang Hong on show. "When drawing spring, one can depict herding and plowing, excursions, fishing and boating; when drawing summer, he can depict sheltering under trees from heat, playing by the rivers and seeking refuge amid rainstorms; when drawing autumn, he highlights playing bamboo flutes, appreciating the full moon and climbing high up …

Classic works present a landscape of humans in harmony with nature
1 year, 2 months ago

Classic works present a landscape of humans in harmony with nature

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Landscape, a painting by Ming Dynasty painter Zhang Hong on show. "When drawing spring, one can depict herding and plowing, excursions, fishing and boating; when drawing summer, he can depict sheltering under trees from heat, playing by the rivers and seeking refuge amid rainstorms; when drawing autumn, he highlights playing bamboo flutes, appreciating the full moon and climbing high up …

Song lyrics in paintings showcased in Shanghai
1 year, 3 months ago

Song lyrics in paintings showcased in Shanghai

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Familiarity with its cultural soul is the key to understanding a nation, and in China's case that includes exploring and appreciating the poetry and lyrics gifted to the world by its 5,000-year civilization. Tang poetry and Song lyrics have long been regarded as twin masterpieces of Chinese literary tradition. The lyrics originated in the Liang Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty, …

Song lyrics in paintings showcased in Shanghai
1 year, 3 months ago

Song lyrics in paintings showcased in Shanghai

China Daily  

Familiarity with its cultural soul is the key to understanding a nation, and in China's case that includes exploring and appreciating the poetry and lyrics gifted to the world by its 5,000-year civilization. Tang poetry and Song lyrics have long been regarded as twin masterpieces of Chinese literary tradition. The lyrics originated in the Liang Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty, …

Veteran of art leaves deep spiritual legacy
1 year, 6 months ago

Veteran of art leaves deep spiritual legacy

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Huang Yongyu at his exhibition at the National Museum of China in Beijing in 2017. In a television interview in July, Huang Yongyu, the celebrated artist and writer, then in his 90s, said: "Death is not at all a dreadful thing that I would fear. Huang wrote a poem more than four decades ago, titled If I Could Live to …

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