Bonsai Tree Shaping, Maintenance, and Appreciation

Author: Zeng Xianye, Ma Wenqi (editors)
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Publish Date: 2001-03-02
Features: The art of bonsai has numerous schools and diverse styles, yet all share a common artistic origin, striving for both aesthetic form and artistic conception. The authors of this book draw inspiration from the techniques and artistic concepts of the Lingnan school of Chinese painting to create bonsai. For the various shaping techniques of tree bonsai, such as floating, probing, dragging, tumbling, and cascading branches, they have selected 27 practical examples to illustrate and analyze in detail. Each tree specimen is designed to achieve several styles, and with different specimens, the same design can be applied to create identical shapes. The book includes over 200 ink line drawings of tree bonsai shapes and more than 100 photographs of bonsai from different styles around the world, many of which are works by renowned bonsai artists. They are suitable for beginners to study and imitate, for bonsai creators to reference, and for bonsai enthusiasts to appreciate. The book can also serve as a teaching material for bonsai skill training programs and is highly recommended for professional bonsai workers.