Zhu Da (1626–1705), “Flowers on a River” (1697), hand scroll; ink on paper, 19 × 508 7/8 inches (collection of the Tianjin Museum) A rare exhibition of Chinese painting in Manhattan is drawing acclaim ...
This weekend marks the closing of “Flowers on a River: The Art of Chinese Flower-and-Bird Painting, 1368-1911, Masterworks from Tianjin Museum and Changzhou Museum,” an exhibition at the China ...
“Flying Flowers and Scattered Snow” (飞花散雪), a title captured from an ancient seven-character Tang dynasty poem, was performed in the courtyard of the Harvard Art Museums by the Chinese calligraphy ...
Traditional Chinese bird-and-flower painting has a number of schools, and among them is the "free-sketching" school, which uses simple line drawings to represent more complicated images and artistic ...
Twenty-seven iconic works of Chinese painting from the Freer’s permanent collection will be on view June 12 – Nov. 28. “Masterpieces of Chinese Painting” offers an exquisite selection of rarely ...
Early summer of 2015 brought Beijing landscapes dotted with lush plants and flowers. Just after sitting down, Xu Dongdong reveals Souls of Creatures in Four Seasons, his latest series of paintings ...
The UK's first major exhibition of Chinese art since 1935 includes masterpieces as expressive as any in European painting before Van Gogh, says Alastair Smart Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700-1900 ...
While the realistic gongbi style of traditional Chinese painting is generally considered to lack imagination and be less capable of expressing emotion than freehand brushwork, painter Yu Jigao said he ...