Chinese Painting
3rd Edition
- Paperback
Series: Introductions to Chinese Culture
- ISBN:9780521186636
- Publication date:September 2011
- 174pages
- 121 colour illus.
- Dimensions: 230 x 156 mm
- Weight: 0.32kg
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Traditional Chinese painting was fundamentally an abstract art form. Artists did not seek to represent direct copies of the natural world; rather, traditional Chinese paintings sought to portray the harmony between the natural world and human emotion, evoking ancient Chinese philosophy. From ancient scroll paintings to Buddhist grottoes to modern art, Lin Ci explores the history, theory and development of distinctive styles of Chinese painting, illustrated throughout with full color examples of these unique, treasured works of art.
