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Chinese Ancient Painting
The roots of Chinese painting can be traced back to paintings on Neolithic pottery six or seven thousand years ago. Since similar tools and lines were used for the earliest painting and writing, painting is said to have the same origin as calligraphy. Thus, Chinese paintings usually integrate poetry or calligraphy with themes that include figures, landscapes, flowers, birds and other animals.
No matter what the subject or the style, traditional Chinese painting should be infused with imagination and soul. A traditional story that captures the Chinese view of painting tells about the establishment of a royal college of painting during the reign of Emperor Huizong.
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Painting of Auspicious Cranes
This is an artful Chinese scroll painting, featuring a dozen auspicious white cranes in yellow fall landscape.
- Handscroll Nymph of the Luoshui River (Part 1)
- Handscroll Nymph of the Luoshui River (Part 2)
- China´s Two Shores: Bird-and-Flower Paintings
- China´s Two Shores: Paintings of Noblewomen
- China´s Two Shores: Landscape Paintings
- China´s Two Shores: Literati Paintings
- Night Banquet at Han Xizais Residence (I)
- Night Banquet at Han Xizais Residence (II)
- China´s Two Shores: Depictions of Tilling and Weaving (II)
- China´s Two Shores: Depictions of Tilling and Weaving (I)
- Qingming by the Riverside (I)
- Qingming by the Riverside (II)
- Qingming by the Riverside (III)
- White Lotus Society Picture (I)
- White Lotus Society Picture (II)
- Noblewomen wearing hairpins painting
