#chinese art

[creativespark]

cigarette cards featuring masks from traditional Chinese opera ~ ca.1900-1940

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, Cat astride another cat late Qing Dynasty

[thunderstruck9]

Han Jiaquan (Chinese, 1972), Waves #1, 2022. Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm.

[dailyhistoryposts]

The Black Cat (Qing Dynasty--1700s). Min Zhen. Hanging scroll; ink on paper

[mangoslixes]

Being drawn to colours that they “associate with sunrise and sunset-times of transition and daily possibility” Livien Yin's paintings have an awe-inspiring palette and such a delicate, considered finish. “I try to render the way that sunlight feels against the skin, like a caress of the subjects in the painting.” Another recognisable quality of the artists work is their repetition of imagery, specifically hands and fruit. Sometimes the hands frame the face of the subject, and the fruit lies half eaten. And, sometimes the two images come together – a model's hands lazily peel an orange, another clasps an apple, mid-bite.

Livien Yin explains that their focus on hands is a means a of referencing both manual labour that characterised the first major wave of Chinese immigration and their connection to Chinese culture and cooking; “I like to paint hands to commemorate the cultural legacies and ‘acts of care’ passed down from the generations before us.” Whereas the fruit has a more specific reference – “when ‘paper sons and daughters’ were preparing to be interrogated at Angel Island Immigration Station, they memorised the details of their new identities using something called ‘coaching notes’ which were sometimes secretly sent to them inside fruit.” And, simultaneously, when placed in the hands of women, Livien intends for it to be a metaphor for sexual agency.

on Livien Yin

[nagma-kalma]

Porcelain cameras by Mathieu Stern.

( AI generated)

[balkanparamo]

Wang Muyuu（王牧羽 Chinese, b.1975）水生万物　2021  纸本设色 

[happyheidi]

by Chinese artist, RedMatcha

[ybon-paramoux]

The Artist at Breaktime

[jareckiworld]

Zheng Lu (郑路) — Universal Declaration of Human Rights  [stainless steel, 2007]

[yixique]

a peking opera concept of kyu *_*

might do a more historically accurate ming counterpart later

[nobrashfestivity]

Qi Baishi

Chicks and a Grasshoppers

The work is on display at the ': From Carpenter to Master' exhibit at the Seoul Arts Center.

[thunderstruck9]

Wu Guanzhong (Chinese, 1919-2010), By the Side of the Li River (I), 1977. Oil on board, 59.5 x 41.5 cm.

[luminous-void]

Purple Narcissus Bowl, Early Ming dynasty.

[gemville]

Chinese Bronze Sword With An Inlaid Rock Crystal, Turquoise and Gold Hilt

Date: Warring States Period Circa 4th - 2nd Century, B.C.

Collection and Photo Credit: Cardale Auctioneers

Source: historicmysteries.com via Facebook

[mangoslixes]

I drank every sky that I could

...the story unfolds as Hu Jundi expresses the poems in his heart through paint on cloth.