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Zhao Mengfu: Twin Pines, Level DistanceThis spare, enigmatic scene represents a revolutionary redirection in Chinese painting. Zhao Mengfu reduces his "painted" landscape to a set of calligraphic brush conventions, with the rocks executed in "flying-white" cursive and the pines outlined in unmodulated seal script. He...
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Empress Yang Meizi: Quatrain on spring’s radianceDuring the Southern Song, artists and connoisseurs who wished to express their emotional responses to paintings frequently added poems to them. Empress Yang's poems appear on a number of paintings by such court artists as Ma Yuan (active ca. 1190–1225) and Ma Lin (active ca. 1180–after 1256);...
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Calligrapher Huang Tingjian: Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru(Please note that this artwork is meant to be viewed from right to left from the last picture.)Poet, calligrapher, and Chan (Zen) Buddhist adept, Huang Tingjian believed that calligraphy should be spontaneous and self-expressive—“a picture of the mind.” Containing nearly twelve hundred characters...
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Palace Museum's Spring Festival collections of Qing Dynasty exhibited in MacaoVisitor views artifacts at an exhibition named "Auspicious Beginning: Spring Festival Traditions in the Forbidden City" in Macao, south China on Dec. 16, 2022. (Xinhua/Cheong Kam Ka)MACAO, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- An exhibition of artifacts associated with Spring Festival traditions and ceremon...
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Rare Works of 17th Century Artists on Show at Long MuseumOld Woods, Bamboos and Rock, ink on paper, by Wu Li (1632-1718), a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) landscape painter.[Photo provided to China Daily]The Long Museum in Shanghai is presenting some of its finest traditional Chinese artworks at the ongoing exhibition titled The Era of Brilliant Stars — Master...
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Qi Baishi's Poetic Accomplishment Discussed at Academy's Annual MeetingZhong Kui, a painting featuring Qi Baishi's poem. [Photo provided to China Daily]The scholar-bureaucrat communities in ancient China viewed achievements in composing poems, calligraphy, painting and seal engraving essential to an individual's integrated artistic skill set. This belief has be...
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