Chinese Contemporary Art
Ming is a world-renowned Chinese artist, and her paintings are earning quite a bit of attention. She has a unique style as she has chose women in the military as the subject for many of her works. Her women are sexy, but yet very powerful at the same time. She had spent time in the…
Liu Bolin, a young Beijing-based artist, has become known as the “invisible man” due to his ability to use his own body as an art material. The chameleon paints on himself, appearing to blend in with the backdrop. Liu Bolin, was born in Shandong in 1973, graduated from the Art Department of Shandong Arts Institute…
The People’s Republic of China was established on October 1, 1949. The then new government set about creating a new art for the new nation. Art was only in service to nation building. From roughly the 1950’s to the1970’s, artists were told what they could and could not paint. The Chinese art on this site are…
[showadl] Traditional Chinese painting is a combination in the same picture of the arts of poetry, calligraphy, painting, and seal engraving. The Chinese painting is highly regarded throughout the world for its theory, expression, and techniques. The Chinese painting can be divided into two categories: the xieyi (water-ink painting) and the gongbi (coloured painting) ….
Chinese art has varied throughout its 5000 years of ancient history. Different forms of art have been influenced by the ruling Emperors, great philosophers, teachers, religious figures, political leaders based on its long history of different dynasties. The Shang dynasty was most remembered for bronze and noted for it’s clarity of detail. In early Imperial…
