Under the guidance of Professor Chen, Anna takes up brush and ink, capturing the beauty of Tiger Spring Park as she paints in ...

Guó huà, meaning ‘national painting’ in Chinese, is a traditional style of painting unique to China. It is deeply rooted in the country’s cultural heritage and artistic philosophy ...

T'ang Haywen was a Chinese-French painter notable for his melding of Abstract Expressionist aesthetics with the traditional techniques of Chinese ink-brush painting. Born in 1927 in Xiamen,China, the ...

What happens when Western artistic perspectives encounter the timeless beauty of Chinese ink painting? China Daily invites Russian contemporary artist Anna Kazmina to the China Academy of Art in ...

If you were a Chinese scholar in the middle of the ... a Bitong (a brush pot) to put your brushes in, and an ink stone to grind up ink. These pots are quite difficult to date accurately, but ...

Chinese calligraphy has always been more than simply a ... Whether they are recording information or simply creating beautiful forms, calligraphers' brushes are used to ink five different styles of ...

Christie’s has described the Song dynasty (960-1279) artwork as “one of the world’s rarest Chinese paintings”. Entitled Wood and Rock, the ink-on-paper handscroll depicts a dragon-like old ...