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Chinese Art Is as Hot in the East as It Is in the West |
2008-4-8 |
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Tian Anmen, Zhang Xiaogang
"Tiananmen Square," by Zhang Xiaogang, recently sold for just over US$2.3 million.
With prices for Chinese contemporary art soaring, Christie's opened its week of art auctions in Hong Kong by realizing a record-breaking US$67.9 million in its sales of Asian contemporary and Chinese 20th-century art.
Wealthy buyers from China and ot...... |
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Is It Ok to Have Fun in an Art Gallery? |
2008-4-8 |
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Duration: 2007.2.10- 2007.3.18Venue: B.T.A.P.Curator: Snejana Krasteva, Feng BoyiArtists: Bai Ming, Fenglin, Hu YanLan, Jin Nu, Liang Tao, Liang Yuanwei, Tang YuHan, Wang Tiantian, Xia Peng, Zhang Yi
In recent years many changes have occurred in the Chinese art scene. We have seen the rise of various trends and the emergence of numerous artists. T...... |
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one world one dream |
2008-4-9 |
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A Cultural Symbol - China"s New Year Picture |
2008-4-8 |
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Spring Festival, China's most celebrative occasion, begins its annual felicitations with the posting of New Year pictures on the walls and windows on the 24th of the 12th month in...... |
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Late imperial China (1368–1895) |
2006-9-21 |
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Detail of Dragon Throne used by the Qianlong Emperor of China, Forbidden City, Qing Dynasty. Artifact circulating in U.S. museums on loan from Beijing
Ming Poetry
Gao Qi is acknowledged by many as the greatest poet of the Ming Dynasty. His poems are departure of those of earlier dynasties and formed a new style of poetry in the Ming dynasty
Ming prose
Zhang Dai is acknowle...... |
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The Sui and Tang dynasties (581–960) |
2006-9-21 |
| Main article: Tang Dynasty art
Buddhist architecture and sculpture
A Chinese Tang Dynasty tri-color glazed porcelain horse (ca. 700 CE), using yellow, green and white colors.
Following a transition under the Sui Dynasty, Buddhist sculpture of the Tang evolved towards a markedly lifelike expression. As a consequence of the Dynasty's openness to foreign influences, and renewed exchanges ...... |
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Early imperial China (221 BC–AD 220) |
2006-9-21 |
| Qin sculpture
The Terracotta Army sculptures
The Terracotta Army, inside the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, consists of more than 7,000 life-size tomb terra-cotta figures of warriors and horses buried with the self-proclaimed first Emperor of Qin (Qin Shi Huang) in 210–209 BC.
The figures were painted before being placed into the vault. The original colors were visible when the piec...... |
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Oil-Painting Prints on Canvas |
2006-9-21 |
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All the painting being sold here are duplicated with high technique of emulation. The prints are duplicated directly on the artist's canvas. The natural texture of canvas gives the prints the exact looking and feeling of an original Oil-Painting with visual and color effects, generating the same result of the real oil paintings. Canvas, having such good ...... |
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The Magic of Chinese |
2006-9-21 |
| One of the world’s oldest languages appears to have a vibrant future
By AN ZI
CHINESE OPPORTUNITY: A Confucius Institute is inaugurated in Pakistan. More than 60 Confucius Institutes have opened in more than 30 countries and regions worldwide
Classical Greek and Latin, two languages that share an ancient history with Chinese, have been threatened with extinction, being used prima...... |
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Nail Sculptures |
2006-9-21 |
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The base of a sculpture, just like the framework of a painting, separates the creation from the realistic space. When the base is removed, the creation is integrated with its surrounding space and becomes part of the realistic space, just like a common object in daily life.
Wang Xiaohui has made an artistic breakthrough with her recent sculpture creations "Nail Series". As a publ...... |
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