Sentences with phrase «chinese ancient painting»

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«No one would have guessed that studying ancient Chinese paintings would lend a lesson to modern technologies such as flexible electronic paper,» says Hong.

According to the website, filmmaker Doug Lefler, who created both the app and all the comics currently on it, was inspired by a print platform, an ancient Chinese scroll painting.

Most of the Lost Horizons images involve reproduction of ancient Chinese landscape paintings that the artist cuts and rearranges on expanses of heavy paper, as if splaying the surface of the earth for scientific intrusion.

Tables, chairs, and power outlets are scattered throughout the Museum, offering you an inspirational environment where you can prepare for finals next to modern masterpieces, ancient Chinese vessels, Old Master paintings, and contemporary sculpture.

The 35 - year - old rising star is considered one of the foremost contemporary artists working in traditional Chinese ink painting today, with the pieces on display — including a panoramic thirty - two - foot silk scroll and a diptych portrait — demonstrate how he deploys ancient techniques and themes to explore contemporary thoughts and ideas.

Bound by their 50 x 50 cm paper and defined by their pencil planometrics, the evocative title of the series pays a debt to Frank Stella, but they also make nods to other abstract expressionists, notably Barnett Newman, to the earlier suprematist paintings of Kazimir Malevich, to Sol LeWitt and Agnes Martin, to ancient Chinese cities as squares, to Islamic caravanserai and Italian cloisters, to the houses within houses of Oswald Mathias Ungers, and even to the composition of Greek chorus and 1970s CBGB punk — that is to say, to all the good things in life.

Every Asian art auction at Skinner offers rare and valuable objects that are fresh to the market, including rare jade, fine calligraphy, ancient ceramics, huanghuali furniture, contemporary Chinese paintings, and Korean, Indian and Japanese decorative arts.

Harvard Art Museum This encompasses three centres: the Fogg Art Museum, concentrating on Western Art of the Middle Ages to the present (notably early Renaissance, British pre-Raphaelite, 19th - century Impressionist and post-Impressionist works, and an important collection of Picasso's works); the Busch - Reisinger Museum, specializing in fine art from Central and Northern Europe (notably 20th century German Expressionist painters); and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, which focuses on ancient, Islamic and Asian art (notably archaic Chinese jades and Japanese surimono, as well as drawings, paintings and calligraphy from Iran, India, and Turkey, along with Greek and Roman sculpture).

The text of the painting is an English translation of the lyrics to Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), which are a selection of poet Hans Bethge's German renderings of ancient Chinese poetry.

An ancient Chinese bronze may be «about» the same thing as a contemporary American painting; there may be correspondences regardless of historical distance.

Lovely and serene, the two - level museum showcases the private collection of founders Trammell and Margaret Crow, enabling visitors to wander amongst ancient Chinese jades, Buddhist sculpture, Japanese screen paintings, delicate fans and intricately carved Indian architecture.

The abstract geometrical shapes of his paintings refer to philosophical or numeric systems: from Arabic, Chinese, and other ancient counting systems, to symbols from the I - Ching and Mayan calendars.

Its collections feature approximately 72,000 works of art ranging from ancient to contemporary, and concentrating geographically on the Mediterranean regions, Western Europe, Asia and the Americas, with particular strengths in Chinese painting and calligraphy, the art of the ancient Americas and pictorial photography.

When I travel in nature, I see the details of ancient Chinese paintings, flashing before me like a film montage by [Sergei] Eisenstein.

We talked about ancient Chinese landscape paintings which were created in one go, and Belag mentioned that a visit to Kyoto's Zen gardens last year had had a big impact on her work.

Marking the occasion of the Blanton's fiftieth anniversary, this special survey will include ancient Mayan vessels, tribal masks, Chinese jade, Renaissance paintings, and Old Master prints and drawings, showcased alongside modern and contemporary works by major artists such as Claude Monet, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ed Ruscha, Vija Celmins and Kehinde Wiley.

The second section of the exhibition, «To Learn is To Create,» showcases earlier works made between 1945 and 1954, a period in which Zao tapped diverse visual traditions and methods, ranging from European painters such as Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, and Paul Klee, to ancient Chinese bronze inscriptions, rubbings from Han - dynasty tomb decorations, and Tang - and Song - dynasty landscape paintings.

★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: «Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China» (through April 6) This museum's first survey of recent Chinese art uses the lens of the culture's ancient brush and ink tradition so basic to its landscape painting and calligraphy.

It makes me think of what David Hockney says in reaction to one - point perspective and in defense of ancient Chinese as well as Cubist paintings: that their distorted views of reality impart a sense of closeness.

Dr. Graybill oversees gallery rotations of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and pan-Asian sacred art, as well as thematic exhibitions on topics as varied as Persian narrative painting, ancient Chinese bronzes, and the arts of the Japanese Noh drama.

★ Anne Chu: «Rubric for the Eye» (closes on Saturday) In the past, Ms. Chu's rough - cut and painted figures of half - human animals, inspired by ancient Chinese tomb sculptures, have proposed an alternative version of nature.

Eternity - Painted Terracotta Statue of Heavenly Guardian, Sleeping Muse combines an ancient Chinese statue with Constantin Brancusi's Sleeping Muse.

★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: «Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China» (closes on Sunday) This museum's first survey of recent Chinese art uses the lens of the culture's ancient brush and ink tradition so basic to its landscape painting and calligraphy.

Today, Chann's enduring legacy is the unique and fascinating blend that he created of text and image, abstract and figurative art, ancient Chinese culture and modern Western painting.