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Tianjin artist paints a relaxed picture

Li Jin's exhibition at West Kowloon Cultural District, in Hong Kong. This attitude has been vividly depicted in the ink paintings of Li Jin, who grew up and works in Tianjin. Li Jin: The Way of the Dragon shows his calligraphy and ink paintings from the early 1990s till now. It is being held at West Kowloon Cultural District, in …

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Authentic beauty Beijing Fine Art Academy has in its collection several works that are considered iconic in the depiction of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, such as A Harvest of Delight in which late painter Huang Zhou drew a vivid harvest scene of singing and dancing. In September, resident painters of Beijing Fine Art Academy traveled to Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, for …

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CHINA DAILY Dramatic changes Dramatic social changes in 20th-century China are reflected in the works of artists of the time, which, in return, helped promote reforms that shaped the cultural landscape. CHINA DAILY Raw energy and style Wu Changshuo, a prominent figure of 20th-century art, was known for researching the characters inscribed on stone drums, believed to be a legacy …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Piecing together a tribute to traditions

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By LI YINGXUE and LI WENFANG in Guangzhou | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2024-11-29 08:25 Cantonese embroidery. At Zhou Chengjie's Cantonese porcelain shop in Yongqing Fang, traditional craftsmanship meets modern technology. "Moving to Yongqing Fang, I started experimenting with iPad software to sketch my designs," Zhou says. Zhou has also responded to the popularity of stamp collecting among younger visitors …

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Dramatic era After seeing the photographic images his German contemporary Heinrich Heidersberger created with experimental techniques, French artist Jean Cocteau wrote a letter to him in 1962 in which he said, "Let us admire, even if we don't understand". These words summarize the collective feelings of the audience at Creative Machine, a newly opened exhibition at the Taikang Art Museum …

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Old Tai'an brand explores new avenues

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A beautiful handicraft made by the cultural creative company Tong Jin Chan, one of the third China Time-honored Brands from Feicheng, Shandong's Taian. The cultural creative company Tong Jin Chan, one of the third China Time-honored Brands from Feicheng, Shandong's Taian, has been exploring new ways to attract young consumers in recent years. As one of the third batch of …

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'Rebirth' for art treasures

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The octagonal lid of an incense holder, a disintegrated jar lid, a porcelain vase, and a terracotta horse sculpture are among the ancient Chinese artifacts restored by Amy Walsh, a London-based objects conservator whose specialization includes Chinese ceramics. In her compact studio at Somerset House in central London, Amy Walsh - an objects conservator with Fine Art Restoration Co - …

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'Rebirth' for art treasures

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The octagonal lid of an incense holder, a disintegrated jar lid, a porcelain vase, and a terracotta horse sculpture are among the ancient Chinese artifacts restored by Amy Walsh, a London-based objects conservator whose specialization includes Chinese ceramics. An art historian and writer herself, Burke, who also works for Fine Art Restoration Co, has developed a partiality for highlighting Chinese …

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'Rebirth' for art treasures

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The octagonal lid of an incense holder, a disintegrated jar lid, a porcelain vase, and a terracotta horse sculpture are among the ancient Chinese artifacts restored by Amy Walsh, a London-based objects conservator whose specialization includes Chinese ceramics. In her compact studio at Somerset House in central London, Amy Walsh - an objects conservator with Fine Art Restoration Co - …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Magic of Animation: How a Chinese Game's Ending Captivates the World

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The animated finale of Black Myth: Wukong, Unfinished, showcases the unique animation style of the classic Chinese lianhuanhua (palm-sized comic books). The director, Yang Tingmu, meticulously blends traditional Chinese techniques with modern animation, resulting in a visually captivating and emotionally resonant conclusion.

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The Magic of Chinese Animation: How a Game's Ending Captivated the World

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The animated finale of Black Myth: Wukong, Unfinished, showcases the unique blend of Chinese culture and animation. The director Yang Tingmu, inspired by traditional Chinese art forms like lianhuanhua and mural paintings, creates a visually striking and emotionally resonant ending that resonates with audiences worldwide.

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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.

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2 months, 1 week ago

Art crosses boundaries to exciting era

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Golden Land, by Shen Xiaoming. CHINA DAILY Liu Wanming, an ink artist who heads the China National Academy of Painting, says he is surprised that "many painters insist on exploring creation in large format, a challenging undertaking to blend techniques and content well". An example at the exhibition is Through Thick and Thin, 2.4 meters in height and 2 meters …

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Artist's Beijing solo continues literati painting tradition

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2024 No.3, by Shen Xiaotong "Shen Xiaotong's artistic career has traversed the 40-year evolution of China's contemporary art scene," said Xing Yu, curator of the artist's Beijing solo. Quoting the Freudian theory of psychoanalysis, Xing highlighted that the artist's latest creation had departed from his early conceptual paintings rooted in the id, to the literati-style painting driven by the super-ego. …

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Artist's Beijing solo continues literati painting tradition

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2024 No.4, by Shen Xiaotong The paintings of Chinese artist Shen Xiaotong, who is holding a solo exhibition at Beijing's Sukie Gallery, usually give viewers two opposing impressions. At first glance, one is taken aback by the striking, unrelenting red, green, or blue hues dominating his canvases, especially his large-scale works. Upon closer examination, the intensity of his work abates …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

Book examines aspects of Chinese culture

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The Beauty of Chinese Culture is recently published. The Beauty of Chinese Culture, a book organized by the National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences and created in collaboration with several experts and scholars in the cultural and artistic fields, and published by CITIC Press Group, was released in August. The contributory lineup for The Beauty of Chinese Culture is …

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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 …

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Bringing Dunhuang's murals to life

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Artist and choreographer responsible for devising dance tradition based on Mogao's images are focus of touring exhibition, Chen Nan reports. In a grand hall at Beijing's Chinese Traditional Culture Museum, a captivating scene unfolds as 93-year-old artist Chang Shana and 89-year-old choreographer Gao Jinrong walk into the room holding hands. Their bond has been forged by their shared vision of …

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Traditional craft captivates taste of modern audiences

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A dough figurine of Sun Wukong handcrafted by Zhao Rui. ZHU XINGXIN/CHINA DAILY The soaring global popularity of the Chinese video game Black Myth: Wukong has inspired a sculptor to create a traditional dough figurine of its main character. Handcrafted by Zhao Rui, the detailed and colorful figurine of Sun Wukong from the classic novel Journey to the West has …

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Video: Bringing Dunhuang's murals to life

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In a grand hall at Beijing's Chinese Traditional Culture Museum, a captivating scene unfolds as 93-year-old artist Chang Shana and 89-year-old choreographer Gao Jinrong walk into the room holding hands. Their bond has been forged by their shared vision of breathing life into Dunhuang's ancient murals through dance, ensuring that their beauty and significance continues to captivate and inspire. Home …

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Video: Bringing Dunhuang's murals to life

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In a grand hall at Beijing's Chinese Traditional Culture Museum, a captivating scene unfolds as 93-year-old artist Chang Shana and 89-year-old choreographer Gao Jinrong walk into the room holding hands. Their bond has been forged by their shared vision of breathing life into Dunhuang's ancient murals through dance, ensuring that their beauty and significance continues to captivate and inspire. Home …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Brushing history back to life

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CHINA DAILY "While many people appreciate my art, these small works don't pose significant technical challenges; after all, they are not artistic creations but more like records. Today, Qin shares his work on social media platforms like Douyin, Xiaohongshu, and Bilibili, and has also produced videos introducing ancient buildings. For example, I aim to develop products that bring ancient buildings …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Brushing history back to life

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CHINA DAILY "While many people appreciate my art, these small works don't pose significant technical challenges; after all, they are not artistic creations but more like records. Today, Qin shares his work on social media platforms like Douyin, Xiaohongshu, and Bilibili, and has also produced videos introducing ancient buildings. For example, I aim to develop products that bring ancient buildings …

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4 months, 1 week ago

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Spirit of creativity The Spirit of Zhong, an exhibition now on in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, gathers workmanship and design by dozens of artists, designers and inheritors of traditional handicrafts. The CAFA art museum is now showing a selection from this assembly of works, including oil works, Chinese ink paintings, prints and sculptures, to offer a glimpse of the evolution of …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Students inspired by Shanxi history, culture

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Tour members from Malaysia pose for a photo at a Shanxi museum, which focuses on brick-carving art. HAO HONG/FOR CHINA DAILY Chin said the most amazing thing in Shanxi is that the traditional cultural assets, like buildings, paintings, calligraphy and folk arts, can inspire people in the cultural creative industry. "I've heard that a lot of Shanxi designers have won …

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Students inspired by Shanxi history, culture

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Tour members from Malaysia pose for a photo at a Shanxi museum, which focuses on brick-carving art. HAO HONG/FOR CHINA DAILY Chin said the most amazing thing in Shanxi is that the traditional cultural assets, like buildings, paintings, calligraphy and folk arts, can inspire people in the cultural creative industry. "I've heard that a lot of Shanxi designers have won …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Poetic brushwork relates a narrative

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A painting by Shen Zhou inspired by his own collection of poems on fallen flowers. Three years later in the spring of 1505, an anguished Shen, who called himself "a wretched old tree with nothing for support", composed a number of poems — 30 to be exact — and collectively titled them Poetry of the Fallen Flower. "In that sense, …

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Growing a new branch of art in literary soil

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Bamboo and Stone, one of the only two surviving paintings by Su Shi, is a highlight of the exhibition Wu Jin Zang running at Nanjing Museum till Aug 18. Anyone other than him would not do," says Pang Ou, ancient Chinese painting and calligraphy expert from the prestigious Nanjing Museum, located in Nanjing city, eastern China's Jiangsu province. And they, …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Poetic brushwork relates a narrative

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A painting by Shen Zhou inspired by his own collection of poems on fallen flowers. Three years later in the spring of 1505, an anguished Shen, who called himself "a wretched old tree with nothing for support", composed a number of poems — 30 to be exact — and collectively titled them Poetry of the Fallen Flower. "In that sense, …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

The rebirth of an artist

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The Old Art School is an example of Zhao Dajun's experiment with geometric patterns. "I thought they were deeply impressed in my mind, but when I painted them after I came home, I was not able to fully convey the same marvelous feeling of that night and the spirituality of the mountains." Du Pengfei, executive director of the Tsinghua University …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

The rebirth of an artist

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The Old Art School is an example of Zhao Dajun's experiment with geometric patterns. "I thought they were deeply impressed in my mind, but when I painted them after I came home, I was not able to fully convey the same marvelous feeling of that night and the spirituality of the mountains." Du Pengfei, executive director of the Tsinghua University …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Artist portrays a changing vista

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Cao Fei's ongoing project Dash makes its debut at the Shanghai exhibition, presenting a novel farming scene in which drones hover in the sky and robots swarm on the ground. Major transformations The exhibition presents about 30 groups of works spanning nearly three decades, including many signature and long-term projects of Cao. At a forum at the opening of the …

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Artist portrays a changing vista

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Cao Fei's solo show, Chaoxi Zhouhe, at Shanghai's Museum of Art Pudong presents her signature and long-term projects, including Duotopia. Naming the exhibition Chaoxi Zhouhe was a joint decision by Cao and her curators, Nancy Spector from the United States, Tan Xue from Hong Kong and Yang Beichen from Beijing. Cao explains chaoxi symbolizes the essence of time and cyclical …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Artist portrays a changing vista

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Cao Fei's solo show, Chaoxi Zhouhe, at Shanghai's Museum of Art Pudong presents her signature and long-term projects, including Duotopia. Naming the exhibition Chaoxi Zhouhe was a joint decision by Cao and her curators, Nancy Spector from the United States, Tan Xue from Hong Kong and Yang Beichen from Beijing. Cao explains chaoxi symbolizes the essence of time and cyclical …

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Artist portrays a changing vista

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Cao Fei's ongoing project Dash makes its debut at the Shanghai exhibition, presenting a novel farming scene in which drones hover in the sky and robots swarm on the ground. Major transformations The exhibition presents about 30 groups of works spanning nearly three decades, including many signature and long-term projects of Cao. At a forum at the opening of the …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Artist portrays a changing vista

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A visitor explores the virtual world constructed by Cao, who has experimented with multimedia art for decades. Following her relocation to Beijing, Cao's creative background radiated from the Pearl River Delta, becoming more complex and diverse in response to the evolving times. Combining virtual reality, video, installations and performance art, this project explores the possibilities of future societies, reflecting the …

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Artist portrays a changing vista

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A visitor explores the virtual world constructed by Cao, who has experimented with multimedia art for decades. Following her relocation to Beijing, Cao's creative background radiated from the Pearl River Delta, becoming more complex and diverse in response to the evolving times. Combining virtual reality, video, installations and performance art, this project explores the possibilities of future societies, reflecting the …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Intangible cultural heritage dazzles Paris

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A porcelain scroll of Lantingji Xu is one of the highlights of the Exposition Reviving Craft exhibition in Paris. Traditional puppetry, embroidery, New Year woodblock prints and wood carvings are creating a strong Chinese vibe at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in the western wing of the Louvre Museum in the French capital. It is part of Exposition Reviving Craft, …

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Intangible cultural heritage dazzles Paris

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A porcelain scroll of Lantingji Xu is one of the highlights of the Exposition Reviving Craft exhibition in Paris. Traditional puppetry, embroidery, New Year woodblock prints and wood carvings are creating a strong Chinese vibe at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in the western wing of the Louvre Museum in the French capital. It is part of Exposition Reviving Craft, …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Intangible cultural heritage dazzles Paris

China Daily

A porcelain scroll of Lantingji Xu is one of the highlights of the Exposition Reviving Craft exhibition in Paris. Traditional puppetry, embroidery, New Year woodblock prints and wood carvings are creating a strong Chinese vibe at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in the western wing of the Louvre Museum in the French capital. It is part of Exposition Reviving Craft, …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Intangible cultural heritage dazzles Paris

China Daily

A porcelain scroll of Lantingji Xu is one of the highlights of the Exposition Reviving Craft exhibition in Paris. Traditional puppetry, embroidery, New Year woodblock prints and wood carvings are creating a strong Chinese vibe at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in the western wing of the Louvre Museum in the French capital. It is part of Exposition Reviving Craft, …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Intangible cultural heritage dazzles Paris

China Daily

A porcelain scroll of Lantingji Xu is one of the highlights of the Exposition Reviving Craft exhibition in Paris. Traditional puppetry, embroidery, New Year woodblock prints and wood carvings are creating a strong Chinese vibe at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in the western wing of the Louvre Museum in the French capital. It is part of Exposition Reviving Craft, …

China Exhibition Cultural Intangible Cultural Heritage Chinese Yang

5 months, 1 week ago

Intangible cultural heritage dazzles Paris

China Daily

A porcelain scroll of Lantingji Xu is one of the highlights of the Exposition Reviving Craft exhibition in Paris. Traditional puppetry, embroidery, New Year woodblock prints and wood carvings are creating a strong Chinese vibe at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in the western wing of the Louvre Museum in the French capital. It is part of Exposition Reviving Craft, …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Creating of an eternal audience

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Huang drew a remake of his own design of the Golden Monkey stamp, issued in 1980, which attracts admirers to the National Art Museum of China exhibition For So Long, and Colorful in Beijing. In an article he wrote in 1979, Landscapes Under the Sun, the prolific artist Huang Yongyu recounted anecdotes about his uncle-once-removed, Shen Congwen, a writer and …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Exhibition highlights new generation of artists

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The exhibition Era of Encore opened in June at the Beijing Times Art Museum, and features diverse works by 32 artists born in the late 1980s and '90s.CHINA DAILY A slice of society According to Liu Weiwei, executive director of the Times Art Museum and the exhibition's supervisor, this exhibition has been nearly a year in the making. "Young artists …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

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Real or illusion Among the portraits of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, there is one titled Is It One or Two, which shows the ruler dressed in a scholar's suit, seated in a study room decorated with objects of culture and arts. This unique composition of a portrait inside a portrait has aroused discussions among modern scholars and historians, …

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 …

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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 …

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