Changzhou School of Painting

Author: Pan Mao
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: A Chinese flower-and-bird painting school that quietly rose in Changzhou, a cultural ancient city in the Jiangnan region, over 300 years ago, with innovation as its and freehand brushwork as its main style. It has had a profound influence on the development of Chinese painting and remains renowned both at home and abroad to this day. This is the historically celebrated Changzhou School of Painting. This series selects 15 important, influential, and representative schools of Chinese painting from the Chinese painting schools, providing comprehensive and systematic discussions and evaluations. The time span covers over 1,000 years, from the Five Dynasties (907) to the modern era (1951), involving more than 1,200 painters, art theorists, and others, with subjects including landscape, flower-and-bird, and figure painting. Essentially, each school of painting builds upon the foundations of predecessors, draws inspiration from nature, incorporates folk art, and absorbs the influence of foreign art. The emergence of each new school advances the art of Chinese painting by a step. Therefore, this series can be said, to some extent, to be a history of the evolution, transformation, and development of Chinese painting. It also provides some historical answers to debates about Chinese painting, revealing the infinite vitality of this art form.