classical Chinese painting has emerged after the development of Chinese calligraphy on rice paper, it is almost entirely outcome.
The landscape painting is the kind most "noble" of classical Chinese painting, and it hatched designs micro and macro-cosmic universe in Chinese. It is not figurative art from the model, but the precipitate of the mood of the painter, who goes to work, not without having first visited the mountain depicted.
In the case of landscape painting - "mountain and water" in Chinese, the harmony of yin and yang elements, the game consistencies atmospheric, geological formations, textures rendered in black and white, are premised ownership expressionist nature very different from Western aesthetics.
The Confucian conception of the world is also reflected in paintings of landscapes or figures or manmade appear very small, situated in a cosmological complete.
Only paintings with the subject of plants, animals or humans openly introduce color into the painting, the theme of the literati in meditation or in a meeting or of the saint, are specific themes of these paintings. Some artists specialize in a particular theme: paint horses, bamboo or even shrimp.
Only later as poems or epitaphs were added directly on the paintings, especially landscapes.
During the first quarter of the century more precisely since the establishment of a republic in China in 1911 some young painters have studied the art of Western painting abroad to revitalize their culture in search of new ideas. Back in China, they have combined their newly acquired knowledge with materials and traditional Chinese techniques. From here begins the modernization of Chinese painting.
In 1949, the People's Republic of China was founded. The artists have produced works glorifying then entering a new era, the revival of the country and the future of the people. Many artists, trained at the school tradition, began to travel to enrich their art while painting scenes of everyday life. Zao Wou-Ki, very young, around the age of twenty years, while completing his studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Hangzhou, was attracted and influenced by Western painting and modern JOIN France.
T'ang Haywen moved to France the same year he adopted a more faithful to the spirit of tradition if not in form since he was, after a period of assimilation techniques West, return to the exclusive practice of the ink to infuse it with new form, abstract and radically modern. Discovered by the younger generations, through major retrospective in Mainland China in recent years, Zao Wou-Ki is the artist who brought from outside the modern Western abstract in Chinese art of the second half of the twentieth century. More
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