One needs years of immersion in Chinese culture, language, history and philosophy to be able to fully appreciate the timeless beauty and symbolic richness of Chinese ink paintings. Despite this, ...

What happens when you combine traditional Chinese ink landscape painting with the playful creativity of Lego toys? That very fusion forms the basis of artist Zhang Xiaoli’s spiritual and artistic ...

Chinese ink landscape paintings have rarely been about depicting landscapes. Realistic depictions of craggy mountain ranges with jutted peaks or numinous landscapes shrouded with mist are always ...

The Chinese painting style called Xieyi literally means “writing ideas,” and marries the freehand techniques of calligraphy, line drawing and shading. Artists often use traditional Xuan rice paper ...

Having trained under the guidance of Shen Shijia, a legend in the field, Yu has dedicated his life to perfecting the art of Chinese landscape painting. Opinions expressed by Digital Journal ...

For generations of painters and admirers, rare and seldom-displayed landscape painting from China’s Song dynasty rank among the most outstanding achievements of Chinese culture. On view May 17–Oct. 26 ...

The first question that may come to mind when walking through “Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1911-1965)” is whether the Metropolitan Museum of Art has ever hosted an exhibition ...

Wesley Tongson, "Untitled," from the Mountains of Heaven series (2000), ink and color on board, 28 3/8 x 38 3/8 inches (all images courtesy BAMPFA, gift of Lilia and Kenneth Tongson) BERKELEY, CA — ...

Positioning Chinese Painting in National Painting Monthly -- Canon and Place in the Paintings of He Tianjian -- In Search of the Southeast : Writing and Picturing Travel -- Painting from Nature and ...

When the artist Wu Chi-Tsung decided to take a leap of faith and seek representation outside his native Taiwan five years ago, he might have only hoped that it was the start of a global adventure. His ...

Some 60 celebrated landscapes are part of a rehang at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Don’t pass them by: They are demanding to the eye and mind alike. By Holland Cotter It always feels like early ...