Colored lacquer with gold paint is an endangered traditional Chinese craft dating back to Hemudu culture more than 7,000 years ago. At that time, people living in Southern China (mainly in Ningbo, Zhejiang) foliated and ground gold and silver, and then added paints to color, trace or fill the patterns on the surface of woodwares. After that, they would elaborate......

Huang Binhong (1865 – 1955) is a famous modern Chinese landscape painter. Huang adopted a fresh and refined style in early years, but his style became heavier and more intensive in his old age, making his works pretty calming. This book collects Chinese art theorists’ discussion on Huang’s artistic thinking, philosophical system, artistic style, cultural positio......

This book has been compiled by picking 250 graphics out of more than 1,000 relatively distinct fabric graphics of ancient graphic materials, including historical paintings, temple frescoes, New Year paintings, illustrations, Buddhist Shuilu paintings, and digitizing them into vector diagrams using computer software, so as to extract basic elements, patterns,......

This book consists of four independent yet progressive chapters. The first chapter starts with the life story of Dong Qichang, analyzing the reason why he chose art instead of politics under the sophisticated social background of the late Ming Dynasty. Mainly included in this chapter are the public morals of the late Ming Dynasty, circulation of calligraphy work......

On the basis of an overall collection of relevant data, this book divides the carved bronzes of Han Dynasty into three classes according to the differences in types and patterns, and discusses their features in shapes, pattern themes, layout and space and time distribution. Besides, it also tries to sort out the development sequence of carved bronzes in differen......

This book contains 61 ancient Chinese paintings from Song Dynasty to Qing Dynasty collected by Jilin Provincial Museum, which reproduce the charms of traditional art. The paintings selected in this book include not only the masterpieces of ancient masters, but also unique works of ordinary painters with their rare, but high-level art style, and even anonymous ma......