Articles for Paper Art

Bringing a Chinese touch to Turkish paper art
2 weeks ago

Bringing a Chinese touch to Turkish paper art

China Daily  

Li Xintong in the process of creating a painting of Ebru, the ancient Turkish art of paper marbling, at her home in Istanbul, Turkiye. ISTANBUL — Li Xintong's journey with Ebru, the ancient Turkish art of paper marbling, began in 2007 when she moved from the northwestern Chinese city of Xi'an in Shaanxi province to Istanbul, Turkiye. After seven years …

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Taizhou paper arts: Bridging tradition and innovation
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Taizhou paper arts: Bridging tradition and innovation

China Daily  

The Zhejiang Paper Arts Exhibition was recently held in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, showcasing 145 intricate works of paper art, including six from Taizhou. Another notable piece is Shen Yang's Olympic Shooting Champion Huang Yuting, which shows Huang Yuting, an athlete from Huangyan district, as she prepares to open fire at the Paris Olympics. Shen Yang's work Olympic Shooting Champion Huang …

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Restoring a colorful tradition to dye for
5 months, 1 week ago

Restoring a colorful tradition to dye for

China Daily  

A dazzling pattern comes into shape by the skilled hands of Zhang Shuangmin, an inheritor of the traditional art form tangliucai. Years of practice has seen Zhang develop a strong leaning toward bringing out Tang Dynasty elements when practicing the craft of tangliucai, which was named an intangible cultural heritage in Xi'an in 2020. "It was so fascinating, yet a …

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Restoring a colorful tradition to dye for
5 months, 1 week ago

Restoring a colorful tradition to dye for

China Daily  

A dazzling pattern comes into shape by the skilled hands of Zhang Shuangmin, an inheritor of the traditional art form tangliucai. Years of practice has seen Zhang develop a strong leaning toward bringing out Tang Dynasty elements when practicing the craft of tangliucai, which was named an intangible cultural heritage in Xi'an in 2020. "It was so fascinating, yet a …

Art Water Paper Tang Zhang Pattern Tang Dynasty
Ankon Mitra – “Paper had to sing and dance in a fundamental way in this show”
9 months, 1 week ago

Ankon Mitra – “Paper had to sing and dance in a fundamental way in this show”

Hindustan Times  

Paper remains under-recognised as an art form in India. From 2019, I started keeping my own list of Indian paper artists who were doing fantastic work but were not showing at the level they should for lack of a platform in India. A clutch of galleries in India, which are patrons to paper artists also gave their unstinted support to …

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Living Heritage: Chinese calligraphy
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Living Heritage: Chinese calligraphy

China Daily  

Chinese calligraphy is an artistic practice of writing Chinese characters, often with a brush and ink on xuan paper. The evolution of Chinese calligraphy began alongside the earliest Chinese characters discovered to date - inscriptions on oracle bones from the Shang Dynasty in Anyang, Henan province. Lan Ting Xu, created by Wang Xizhi during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, is one …

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The patterns of life
1 year, 10 months ago

The patterns of life

China Daily  

Understanding the deep cultural connotations of traditional designs is its own path to enlightenment, Xu Lin reports. Editor's note: There are 43 items inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage lists that not only bear witness to the past glories of Chinese civilization, but also continue to shine today. A pair of scissors and a piece of paper — that's all …

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The patterns of life
1 year, 10 months ago

The patterns of life

China Daily  

Understanding the deep cultural connotations of traditional designs is its own path to enlightenment, Xu Lin reports. Editor's note: There are 43 items inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage lists that not only bear witness to the past glories of Chinese civilization, but also continue to shine today. A pair of scissors and a piece of paper — that's all …

Commentary: A major trove of art on paper is coming to light at the Hammer Museum
2 years, 10 months ago

Commentary: A major trove of art on paper is coming to light at the Hammer Museum

LA Times  

Daylight can be art’s best friend. At UCLA’s Hammer Museum and its affiliated Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, which both collect works on paper, the answer is to embrace an established museum practice while giving it an updated twist. As part of the Hammer’s ongoing, $100-million renovation and expansion project at its Westwood building, a new Grunwald study-storage facility …

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Artist feeds burning desire to create
3 years, 1 month ago

Artist feeds burning desire to create

China Daily  

Keram Razak makes an artwork with a hot iron. CHINA DAILY Using great patience and focus to control the heated tool in his hand, Keram Razak, a pokerwork artist from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, drew the beauty of his hometown on paper in the burning art form that never fades. "I want to use this skill to help people …

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Paper trail leads to exquisite design
4 years ago

Paper trail leads to exquisite design

China Daily  

A paper whale in her studio. Among their representative pieces, a paper artwork that integrates local culture, history, modern development and key landmarks in Qingdao was selected by the local authorities as a gift to be presented to foreign guests who participated in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Qingdao summit in 2018. "Paper by paper, story by story, the culture of …

Art Paper Qingdao Huang Paper Art
Paper trail leads to exquisite design
4 years ago

Paper trail leads to exquisite design

China Daily  

Some paper sculptures being exhibited at the Louvre in France in 2016. When entering her "paper paradise", in Qingdao's West Coast New Area, Shandong province, she becomes the benign fairy lady of a paper-art wonderland. "Paper art is everything about my life, and I have been enjoying it throughout," Huang, who comes from Taiwan, told China Daily in an exclusive …

Art Paper Huang Paper Art
Paper trail leads to exquisite design
4 years ago

Paper trail leads to exquisite design

China Daily  

Some paper sculptures being exhibited at the Louvre in France in 2016. When entering her "paper paradise", in Qingdao's West Coast New Area, Shandong province, she becomes the benign fairy lady of a paper-art wonderland. "Paper art is everything about my life, and I have been enjoying it throughout," Huang, who comes from Taiwan, told China Daily in an exclusive …

Art Paper Huang Paper Art
Paper trail leads to exquisite design
4 years ago

Paper trail leads to exquisite design

China Daily  

Some paper sculptures being exhibited at the Louvre in France in 2016. When entering her "paper paradise", in Qingdao's West Coast New Area, Shandong province, she becomes the benign fairy lady of a paper-art wonderland. "Paper art is everything about my life, and I have been enjoying it throughout," Huang, who comes from Taiwan, told China Daily in an exclusive …

Art Paper Huang Paper Art Trail Leads
Paper trail leads to exquisite design
4 years ago

Paper trail leads to exquisite design

China Daily  

A piece of work by her team which was given as a gift to foreign guests of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Qingdao summit in 2018. Imparting passion Huang started to dabble in aesthetic education for children in 2002, when her team launched a summer camp to teach young people the culture of paper art, and encouraged them to not only …

Art Children Team Paper Qingdao Yao Huang
Paper trail leads to exquisite design
4 years ago

Paper trail leads to exquisite design

China Daily  

Some paper sculptures being exhibited at the Louvre in France in 2016. When entering her "paper paradise", in Qingdao's West Coast New Area, Shandong province, she becomes the benign fairy lady of a paper-art wonderland. "Paper art is everything about my life, and I have been enjoying it throughout," Huang, who comes from Taiwan, told China Daily in an exclusive …

Art Paper Huang Paper Art
Paper trail leads to exquisite design
4 years ago

Paper trail leads to exquisite design

China Daily  

A piece of work by her team which was given as a gift to foreign guests of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Qingdao summit in 2018. Imparting passion Huang started to dabble in aesthetic education for children in 2002, when her team launched a summer camp to teach young people the culture of paper art, and encouraged them to not only …

Art Children Team Paper Qingdao Yao Huang
Paper trail leads to exquisite design
4 years ago

Paper trail leads to exquisite design

China Daily  

Some paper sculptures being exhibited at the Louvre in France in 2016. When entering her "paper paradise", in Qingdao's West Coast New Area, Shandong province, she becomes the benign fairy lady of a paper-art wonderland. "Paper art is everything about my life, and I have been enjoying it throughout," Huang, who comes from Taiwan, told China Daily in an exclusive …

Art Paper Huang Paper Art
Paper trail leads to exquisite design
4 years ago

Paper trail leads to exquisite design

China Daily  

A paper whale in her studio. Among their representative pieces, a paper artwork that integrates local culture, history, modern development and key landmarks in Qingdao was selected by the local authorities as a gift to be presented to foreign guests who participated in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Qingdao summit in 2018. "Paper by paper, story by story, the culture of …

Art Paper Qingdao Huang Paper Art