Chinese art by medium and technique information

traditional Chinese art was made for the imperial court, often to be then redistributed as gifts. As well as Chinese painting, sculpture and Chinese calligraphy...

Video art Single-channel video Video installation Film, as a form of mass communication, is itself also considered a medium in the sense used by fields...

Chinese art Chinese art is visual art that originated in or is practiced in China, Greater China or by Chinese artists. Art created by Chinese residing...

expression, and historical Oriental art. Chinese scholars have their own views which may be different; they believe that contemporary Chinese ink wash paintings...

Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix"...

artistic medium for the creation of two or three-dimensional objects. Paper and card stock lend themselves to a wide range of techniques and can be folded...

Chinese knotting, also known as zhongguo jie (Chinese: 中國結; pinyin: Zhōngguó jié), is a Chinese folk art with ties to Buddhism and Taoism. A Chinese knot...

gentlemen in the Chinese Zhou dynasty, and calligraphy and Chinese painting were numbered among the four arts of scholar-officials in imperial China. Leading...

began to be influenced by Western art and began to integrate Western art into Chinese culture. Influenced by American jazz, Chinese composer Li Jinhui (Known...

period of Chinese history (480–221 BC) extensive development in martial philosophy and strategy emerged, as described by Sun Tzu in The Art of War (c...

During the ten centuries of rule by the Chinese, Vietnamese began to apply newly learned Chinese techniques to art and specifically ceramics, however this...

both oils and Chinese ink. Most of his works, however, were in the Chinese traditional style. Xu Beihong had a free technique of brush in his art works;...

created using this technique in the early-to-mid-19th century. Throughout the 19th century painting on glass was widely popular as folk art in Austria, Bavaria...

is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means...

periods of Chinese history and generally accords with the style of decorative art characteristic of each period. Its deep significance in Chinese culture...

printing, photographic mediums, or a combination of digital, photographic, and traditional processes. Many of these techniques can also be combined, especially...

Sunflower and Silver by Diana Lee] A detail of Sunflower and Silver to show scratching technique Illustrators who have worked in the scratchboard medium include...

from various Chinese arts. The monumental, symmetrically balanced, rational approach of Chinese art forms became miniaturized, irregular, and subtly suggestive...

Han dynasty (before 220), and are of silk printed with flowers in three colours. "In the 13th century the Chinese technique of blockprinting was transmitted...

medium tone of vermilion called vermilion on the Plochere color list, which was formulated in 1948 and is used widely by interior designers. Chinese red...

influenced by illustrations in Chinese medicine manuals beginning in the Muromachi era (1336 to 1573). Zhou Fang, a notable Tang-dynasty Chinese painter...

or block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method...

times by a printing process. It has been an important artistic medium for several centuries, in the West and East Asia. Major historic techniques include...

increasing trade with China and Japan, something that Chinese histories of the time corroborate. The expansionist Chinese invaded and established commanderies...

tragedy, comedy, Dithyrambic poetry and music to be mimetic or imitative art, each varying in imitation by medium, object, and manner. For example, music imitates...

technique that enables a wavefront to be recorded and later reconstructed. It is best known as a method of generating three-dimensional images, and has...

began experimenting with batik as an art form. According to T.K. Sabapathy, Chuah produced his first batik medium work entitled Malayan Life in 1941. Some...

continually innovate and modify bamboo carving techniques, and replicate the resurgence of bamboo carving art. Bamboo craft, a traditional Chinese handcraft with...