Art Collecting and Appreciation Encyclopedia of Chinese Art, Volume 6: Painting

Author: Shi Shuqing
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: Painting art, with its unique characteristics and immortal works, has written brilliant chapters. From ancient rock and pottery paintings to silk scrolls of the Qin and Han dynasties, and silk paintings of the Sui and Tang dynasties, to paper and ink paintings of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, countless masterpieces of painting, like rare flowers, vie in splendor. The great masters of various painting schools, like clear springs, merge into vast rivers. In the field of world art, Chinese painting, with its unique ethnic style, forms its own system. It primarily uses the brush, ink, silk, and paper, adheres to the standards of brushwork, artistic conception, artistic realm, and style, and employs point and line structures as the main means of expression, creating a cultural art with distinct national characteristics.