Chinese Landscape Painting for Beginners

Chinese Landscape Painting for Beginners
Author: Audrey Quigley
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993
Genre: Ink painting, Chinese
ISBN: 9780806905006

"A book for beginners who want to learn about it."-- "Arts & Activities . Rock formations, mountain crags, waterfalls, pines, willows, pagodas, bridges, lakes and mists. 64 pages, 126 b/w illus., 8 1/4 x 11.

Chinese Brush Painting

Chinese Brush Painting
Author: Ning Yeh
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2022-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9780961830588

A second addition, also known as Ning Yeh's "Gold Edition" updates his original guide of step-by-step instructions for Chinese Brush Painting.

Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History

Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History
Author: James Elkins
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2010-06-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9622090001

This is a provocative essay of reflections on traditional mainstream scholarship on Chinese art as done by towering figures in the field such as James Cahill and Wen Fong. James Elkins offers an engaging and accessible survey of his personal journey encountering and interpreting Chinese art through Western scholars' writings. He argues that the search for optimal comparisons is itself a modern, Western interest, and that art history as a discipline is inherently Western in several identifiable senses. Although he concentrates on art history in this book, and on Chinese painting in particular, these issues bear implications for Sinology in general, and for wider questions about humanistic inquiry and historical writing. Jennifer Purtle's Foreword provides a useful counterpoint from the perspective of a Chinese art specialist, anticipating and responding to other specialists’ likely reactions to Elkins's hypotheses.

Chinese Watercolor Techniques - Painting Animals

Chinese Watercolor Techniques - Painting Animals
Author: Lian Quan Zhen
Publisher: North Light Books
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2004-12-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781581805109

Capture the essence of animals like never before! Using Chinese and watercolor techniques and materials, you can create animals with elegance and grace. Let award-winning artist Lian Quan Zhan show you how with his clear and basic step-by-step instructions. Artists at all levels will benefit from Lian's deep understanding of both art forms. He guides you through the process by beginning with the basic properties of Chinese materials such as rice paper and ink, and leading to more advanced techniques such as loading a brush with multiple colors. He also teaches watercolor pouring techniques so you can create vibrant animals and beautiful backgrounds. So much of Chinese painting stems from observation and interpretation of nature. Apply these principles by painting cats, birds, tigers, and many other animals in seventeen step-by-step demonstrations. Find your inspiration within the animals of this book, and breathe the spirit of the East and West into your own art.

Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting

Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting
Author: Yi Gu
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2021-02-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1684176131

"How did modern Chinese painters see landscape? Did they depict nature in the same way as premodern Chinese painters? What does the artistic perception of modern Chinese painters reveal about the relationship between artists and the nation-state? Could an understanding of modern Chinese landscape painting tell us something previously unknown about art, political change, and the epistemological and sensory regime of twentieth-century China? Yi Gu tackles these questions by focusing on the rise of open-air painting in modern China. Chinese artists almost never painted outdoors until the late 1910s, when the New Culture Movement prompted them to embrace direct observation, linear perspective, and a conception of vision based on Cartesian optics. The new landscape practice brought with it unprecedented emphasis on perception and redefined artistic expertise. Central to the pursuit of open-air painting from the late 1910s right through to the early 1960s was a reinvigorated and ever-growing urgency to see suitably as a Chinese and to see the Chinese homeland correctly. Examining this long-overlooked ocular turn, Gu not only provides an innovative perspective from which to reflect on complicated interactions of the global and local in China, but also calls for rethinking the nature of visual modernity there."

Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting

Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting
Author: Richard M. Barnhart
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300094477

Written by a team of eminent international scholars, this book is the first to recount the history of Chinese painting over a span of some 3000 years.

Semiotics for Art History

Semiotics for Art History
Author: Lian Duan
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2018-12-02
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1527522784

Reading art from a semiotic perspective, this book offers a new interpretation of the development of Chinese landscape painting and outlines a new framework for contemporary semiotics and critical theory. It will appeal to those interested in visual art, Chinese studies, critical theory, semiotics, and other relevant fields, and will allow the reader to learn how to put theory into the practice of studying art, how to give new life to an important theory, and how to acquire a new point of view in appreciating and enjoying art with a certain critical theory.

Chinese Landscapes Made Easy

Chinese Landscapes Made Easy
Author: Rebecca Yue
Publisher: Batsford
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2007-03-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780713490473

'Chinese Landscapes Made Easy' shows you how to paint stunning landscapes in the classic Chinese style with a core material list of just six essential Chinese brushes. Starting with how to hold and control a Chinese brush, the author builds your confidence by demonstrating simple techniques on paper, before tackling more complex marks in conjunction with a series of painting ‘lessons’, each dedicated to a different key element of Chinese landscape painting. The projects section takes you through all the step-by-step techniques in order to complete your very own works of art. Each project has a colour palette and information on brushes to use, so you can be fully prepared. Master just two simple brushstrokes – ‘dots’ and ‘long dots’ – and you will be able to paint a simple waterfall. With more practice you can progress to more advanced strokes that enable you to depict subtle light reflections on land. With clear illustrations on key hand movements and easy-to-follow techniques, "Chinese Landscapes Made Easy" guides you all the way to mastering this beautiful form of landscape painting.

Beyond Representation

Beyond Representation
Author: Wen Fong
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 571
Release: 1992
Genre: Calligraphy, Chinese
ISBN: 0300057016

Beyond Representation surveys Chinese painting and calligraphy from the eighth to the fourteenth century, a period during which Chinese society and artistic expression underwent profound changes. A fourteenth-century Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368) literati landscape painting presents a world that is totally different from that portrayed in the monumental landscape images of the early Sung dynasty (960 - 1279). To chronicle and explain the evolution from formal representation to self-expression is the purpose of this book. Wen C. Fong, one of the world's most eminent scholars of Chinese art, takes the reader through this evolution, drawing on the outstanding collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Focusing on 118 works, each illustrated in full color, the book significantly augments the standard canon of images used to describe the period, enhancing our sense of the richness and complexity of artistic expression during this six-hundred-year era.