When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: china art prints history

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. History of printing in East Asia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_printing_in...

    A fragment of a dharani print in Sanskrit and Chinese, c. 650–670, Tang dynasty The Great Dharani Sutra, one of the world's oldest surviving woodblock prints, c. 704-751 The intricate frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra from Tang-dynasty China, 868 AD (British Museum), the earliest extant printed text bearing a date of printing Colophon to the Diamond Sutra dating the year of printing to 868

  3. Woodblock printing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodblock_printing

    Chinese woodblock prints from SOAS University of London "Multiple Impressions: Contemporary Chinese Woodblock Prints" at the University of Michigan Museum of Art; American Printing History Association—Numerous links to Online Resources and Other Organizations; Wood-Block Printing, by F. Morley Fletcher, Illustrated by A. W. Seaby at Project ...

  4. Chinese art - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_art

    Chinese art is visual art that originated in or is practiced in China, Greater China or by Chinese artists. Art created by Chinese residing outside of China can also be considered a part of Chinese art when it is based on or draws on Chinese culture , heritage, and history.

  5. History of printing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_printing

    Later some notable Chinese artists designed woodcuts for books, the individual print develop in China in the form of New Year picture as an art-form in the way it did in Europe and Japan. In Europe, woodcut is the oldest technique used for old master prints , developing about 1400, by using on paper existing techniques for printing on cloth.

  6. Woodcut - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodcut

    Woodcut originated in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later on paper. The earliest woodblock printed fragments to survive are from China, from the Han dynasty (before 220), and are of silk printed with flowers in three colours. [4] "In the 13th century the Chinese technique of blockprinting was transmitted to Europe."

  7. Arts of China - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_of_China

    The arts of China (simplified Chinese: 中国艺术; traditional Chinese: 中國藝術) have varied throughout its ancient history, divided into periods by the ruling dynasties of China and changing technology, but still containing a high degree of continuity. Different forms of art have been influenced by great philosophers, teachers ...

  8. Chinese painting - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_painting

    The "Six principles of Chinese painting" were established by Xie He, a writer, art historian and critic in 5th century China, in "Six points to consider when judging a painting" (繪畫六法, Pinyin: Huìhuà Liùfǎ), taken from the preface to his book "The Record of the Classification of Old Painters" (古畫品錄; Pinyin: Gǔhuà Pǐnlù ...

  9. Famous Paintings through the Ages - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famous_Paintings_through...

    Before the creation of the book, Chinese art-related works mainly focused on appreciation and cataloging, such as Gu Kaizhi's (顾恺之) On Painting and Xie He's (谢赫) Classified Record of Ancient Paintings. Zhang Yanyuan thus pioneered Chinese art history by being the first to document painters in a chronological format.