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Chinese Eight Immortal Painting
Chinese eight immortal painting is paintings from a peculiar Chinese fairy tale.Each Immortal’s have a magic tool that can give life or destroy evils. Tieguai Li had an iron crutch and gourd, Zhang Guolao always rode the donkey back to front, Han Zhongli waved his palm-leaf fan, Lan Caihe carried his flower basket, Han Xiangzi played his flute, He Xiangu …
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Chinese Dragon Painting
Dragon is deeply rooted in Chinese culture as the supreme auspicious being. And the Chinese in the world often regard themselves as “the descendants of the dragon”.
Auspicious &Fengshui Meaning
Chinese Dragon Painting: In the ancient China, dragon was the symbol of imperial power and represents the emperor. Nowadays, dragon can no longer represent imperial power; however, it is still …
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Chinese Xuan Paper
Many Chinese paintings are painted on Chinese rice paper (often called Xuan paper or Xuan Zhi), not oil canvas. The artist takes the brush dipping in the water-based ink and the other pigments to draw on rice paper / Xuan paper.
Chinese Rice Paper has a history of over 1,000 years. It is made from the bark of the wingceltis (Pteroceltis tartarinowii) mixed with rice straw. The …
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Chinese Building Paintings
There is another type of Chinese paintings called painting of buildings, pavilions, palaces, terraces, and towers, which takes ancient Chinese architecture as the theme. Pavilions, palaces, terraces and towers are general reference to the elaborate Chinese architecture. Those buildings are located in pleasing natural setting, providing poetic scenery.
The Chinese pavilions (which means also kiosk) is built normally either of …
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Tagged belvederes, buildings, Chinese Paintings, Chinese tower, lou, pavilions, storeys
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Three Branches of Chinese Painting
In terms of topics, Chinese painting can be classified into three branches: human figures, landscapes and flowers-birds.
Chinese figure paintings appeared before landscape or flowers-birds paintings. In the early times, the figure painting was aimed to server religious or political purpose. It can be divided into several ranges: Taoist-and Buddhist painting, Female images, Portrait, Genre painting, and History-story painting. The …
Traditional Chinese Painting
Chinese painting is widely considered to be one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. Chinese painting today is known as Guo hua, meaning national painting. As its name, the Chinese painting is painted with the same techniques as Chinese calligraphy and is done with a brush dipped in black or colored ink on rice paper or thin …
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Four Gentlemen in Chinese Paintings
In Chinese art, plants including the orchid, the bamboo, the chrysanthemum, and the plum blossom are called The Four Gentlemen. The Four Gentlemen, also called the Four Noble Ones, The term compares the four plants to Confucianist junzi, or “gentlemen”. They are most typically depicted in traditional ink and wash painting and they belong to the category of bird-and-flower painting …
Chinese Fish Painting
In China, “fish(鱼)” and “surplus(余)” and “jade（玉）” are homonymic words (all sound “yu”), so fish represents affluence and abundance.
China artists often draw the auspicious fishes drawing as carp and goldfish, as “carp(鲤)” and “benefit(利)” are homonymic words in Chinese, and “gold(金)” represents wealth so they often relate to the business and symbolize the advantages and benefits in business.
Lotus Flower & …
Chinese Flower-and-bird Painting
The flower-and-bird painting is peculiar to China. From of old, all kinds of flowers, plants, and birds were given various symbolic meanings. Flowers and birds can be compared to almost all thoughts and feelings of human being. They can symbolize feminine beauty, virtues, political authority, omens, and lucky niceness. And once established, this tradition became popular in every dynasty.
Flower-and-Bird Painting did …
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Artisoo Gallery Summarized Basic Chinese Painting Skills
The most traditional tools for Chinese painting is pen and ink, pen shaped the figure, ink for meaning, the two complement each other. This article is to share with you some Chinese painting creation for the use of pen and ink, for the Masters, you can skip, and beginners, should be read carefully.
A pen aspect emphasizes ancients words “husband …
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