JADE CARVING – CHINA’S MOST FAMOUS FORM OF ARTISTIC EXPRESSION FOR FOUR MILLENNIA

For more than four thousand years, jade has figured in Chinese history, including its art ...

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BATIK: A 1,500-YEAR OLD CRAFT THAT HAS FOUND ITS WAY IN MODERN TEXTILE ART

Batik is an age-old art and craft, and in recent years had been getting popular in the West as ...

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In ancient times, most of the literati (highly educated male scholars) practice the art of ink ...

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The Orient, meaning present-day regions of North Africa, the Middle East, Greece and Turkey ...

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In painting terms “landscape” came from “landschap,” which is a Dutch ...

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In 2013 the domestic and foreign animation market in Japan reached a record high of 242.8 ...

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Poster art started appearing in the 1870s, created by some of the then famous French poster ...

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The best way to view a traditional Chinese landscape painting is to “read it,” ...

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Marble is firmly associated with classical art, but marble is a stone that had been used in ...

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In the West, woodblock printmaking employs oil-based ink applied over a design using a roller. ...

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