The Art of Tangka Painting

Apiece of Tangka painting is usually created with ten procedures, including cloth grinding, point positioning, outlining the contour with char pen, rough line drawing,color application, line drawing with fine brushworks, fine line drawing, gold line drawing, face drawing and consecration.     

Chen Lusheng＇s Painting Reminiscent of Beauty of South China

I didn＇t expect that Lusheng could create so refined paintings, He seems to be busy always, traveling around the globe and working day and night. But he has never complained, Instead, he is a patient person with an orderly mind,     

心灵之约

布兰德上尉从长椅上站起来,整了整身上的军装。中央车站人来人往,他的目光在人群中搜寻着。他在寻找一个女孩儿,一个他从未谋面但心灵相通的女孩儿,一个戴玫瑰花的女孩儿。     

爱美

爱美是健全人性不可或缺的一部分。因为它是道德的一种品质。虽然缺乏这种品质并不能作为责难的真正理由，但是拥有它则是心灵美好的永恒标志。品德之高尚与完美所达到的境界可能与爱美的感受程度成正比。     

Hangu Print Painting

Hangu District is located at the lower streams of nine rivers which stretch through the city of Tianjin,an industrial city neighboring Beijing.It faces Bohai Bay in the south,salt marshes in the east,vineyards in the west and vegetable fields in the north.Hangu is a beautiful town,with an ancient canal winding through it.Endowed with gorgeous sceneries and rich cultural traditions, Hangu has enjoyed a vibrant and unique art form of print painting.In the 1980s,a group of young print painters stood out in Hangu,enjoying nationwide reputation.In 1986,more than 300 pieces of Hangu print painting were on display at the     

Abstract Painting of Zhang Daqian

Zhang Daqian is a master painter of Chinese traditional painting who enjoys worldwide reputation. He is also an artist with strong individuality and legendary experience. His artistic career can be divided into three different stages: following ancient masters before age 40, following the law of nature between age 40 and 60 and following mind after age 60. In his early years, Zhang     

Hardwood Painting Frames of Lingnan

Hanging painting frames originatedfrom the Renaissance Period in the West.Most of early painting frames were madeof wood and gilded with gold. Paintingframes embedded with glass appearedin the mid-18th century to protectpainting works from damage andpollution.Old painting frames in Lingnan weremostly made of hardwood. Guangdongis the earliest place in China in whichtrading with foreign countries wasallowed and western influence came. Bythe late Qing Dynasty, glass was appliedto home furnit…     

The Tibetan Art of Thangka Painting

<正>Thangka, a Tibetan expression of religious painting, had yet to get known to the rest of the world until two or three decades ago. However, its history can d...     

Beauty of Ice and Snow on Canvas

Late September 2006, at the invitation of the Cultural Ministry of Belarus, a four-person delegation from northeast China＇s Heilongjiang Province visited Minsk, capital city of Belarus, to present China Ice and Snow Painting Exhibition at Belarus National Museum of History and Culture as part of China Culture Day co- sponsored by the cultural ministries of the two countries. The exhibition displayed 54 painting masterpieces by Yu Zhixue, founder of ice and snow painting, and his students. All the maior media organizations in Belarus reported the exhibition and Belarus Culture Daily gave an exclusive interview of Yu Zhixue. The Deputy Cultural Minister of Belarus was so impressed by the painting styles of Yu that he shook Yu＇s hands excitingly and highly praised Yu＇s works. A renowned Belarus painter said that ＂Trees with Crystal-White ice＂, donated by Yu to Belarus National Museum of History and Culture, would become an everlasting memory of the city of Minsk.     

Farmer Print Painting of Qijiang County

Farmer printing first appeared in Qijiang County, Chongqing Municipality in the 1960s and 70s when the first print works, ＂The Party Branch＇s Secretary＂, was created by artists from Sichuan Artists Association, based on their experience in the county and characterized by the mix of revolutionary realism and romanticism. During the Cultural Revolution （ 1966 - 1976）, while traditional culture and classical Western culture were both labeled as ＂poisoned and collapsed＂, only print painting was encouraged by the communist government as it depicted realistic subjects of the time. Print exhibitions and workshops were launched in Qijiang＇s villages, which helped to give rise to indigenous print in the decades to come. Farmer printing of Qijiang County embraced heydays in the 1980s when the reform and opening policies were exercised nationwide, as a result of the influence by the print style of Jinshan.     

A Review of Contemporary Tibetan Painting

Tibetan fine arts have embraced a whole new era sincethe 1980s. Diverse subjects and innovative techniquesfeature the styles of contemporary Tibetan painting.Murals of NorbulingkaThe epic mural series”Origins of Tibetans: Politics andReligions” in the new palace of Norbulingka mix differentstyles of Tibetan painting and feature plain colors and grandscenes. The murals illustrate the political and religious historyof Tibet: from pre-historic Tibetans said to be decedents of amale monkey a…     

Beauty of Yixing Purple Sand Clay Teapots

Yixing clay is a type of clay from the region near the city of Yixing in Jiangsu Province, China. Its use dates back to the Song Dynasty [960-1279] when purple clay was firstmined around Lake Taihu in China. From the 1 7th century on, the ware was commonly exported to Europe. The finished stoneware, which is used for teaware and other small items, are usually red or brown in color. They are known as purple sand ware, and are typically unglazed. The clays used for Yixing wares are very cohesive and can be formed by slip molding,     

Random Stitching and Western Painting

Embroidery is an art re-created on the basis of painting. With the import of Western culture and painting since the 1930s, Chinese people have gradually changed their aesthetic tendencies and as a result the art of embroidery has been remarkably transformed. Chinese embroiders have drawn upon from Western aesthetic concepts and painting techniques and developed a new type of stitching approach which is called ＂random stitching＂.     

宋庆龄：永远的美丽

20世纪的中国，如果在男性中只评选一名世纪伟人，恐怕还会让人斟酌再三，难以取舍。而女性则不然，我想不出还有谁比宋庆龄更有资格当选。     

Rabbit Painting by Han Meilin

<正>Chinese painter Han Meilin is noted for his painting creations of the rabbit which looks cute, lively and joyful. Shaped with graceful lines     

Woodblock New Year Print Painting of Kaifeng

New Year painting is an independent genre of Chinese folk painting. It is so named, because it is usually hanged during celebrations of Chinese New Year, This paintinggenre dates back to the Han Dynasty [221 BC - 220 AD）. Woodblock printing began to be employed for the creation of New Year painting in Kaifeng, capital city of the Northern Song Dynasty [960-1127]. The use of woodblock printing marked a breakthrough in creation of New Year painting and Kaifeng has thus been known as the birthplace of woodblock New Year print painting of China.     

Grandeur and Purity of Heavy-color Ink Painting

<正>Mongolian painter Wu Xingkuan is generally recognized as an outstanding contemporary artist in heavy-color ink painting. He learned in     

Heavy-color Fine Brush Painting of Ancient China

<正>The Six Principles of Chinese Painting was established by Xie He, an art historian and critic in 6th-century China. The six points to consider when judging a...     

“Everything Has Beauty but Not Everyone Sees It”: An Islamic Alternative to Assessing Beauty

ABSTRACT

The constant reference to beauty ideals in all facets of contemporary culture, including work, sex, and religion as well as the constant exposure to images of “beautiful” women, which are ubiquitous in the mass media as the ideal, make a search for a categorical view a necessity. Through qualitative research approach, in which critical, content, and discourse analysis were applied on classical, as well as relevant contemporary materials on beauty, this study contributes an Islamic perspective to the discourse, and hinges its discussions on the primary sources in Islam (Qur’an and Hadith). The paper examines what the Qur’an and Hadith view as beauty and physical attractiveness. It was discovered that in Islam, beauty has five primary emphases: virtue, divine, nature, order, and proportion.