Rio Nakano's linked emphasizes the idea of Japanese
traditional scroll painting of «choju - giga,» historical scrolls created in 12th century in Japan and often referred as animal - person caricatures.
However, rather than adopting the idealism characteristic of
traditional scroll painting, Ji's work presents the gritty reality of life in China today.
Not exact matches
Pakistani painter Shahzia Sikander puts a contemporary spin on ancient art, often taking cues from
traditional Eastern ideas of music, texts,
scroll painting, and the Persian art of miniature
painting.
Her many other works play upon
traditional Eastern ideas of music, texts, and
scroll painting, shocking those precedents into the present day.
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.
Inspired by the hand
scrolls and
painted screens of early 17th Century Japanese artist Tawaraya Sōtatsu, who combined the
traditional themes of the indigenous school of Japanese narrative
scroll painting with the bold, decorative designs of the great screen painters of the Azuchi - Momoyama period.
For both Framed
Painting: Boat and Framed Painting: Two Girls, Fuchs again renders each work respectfully, including the gold - leaf scrolls on the traditional frame for the painting of the young women and the severe edges of the grey frame for the maritim
Painting: Boat and Framed
Painting: Two Girls, Fuchs again renders each work respectfully, including the gold - leaf scrolls on the traditional frame for the painting of the young women and the severe edges of the grey frame for the maritim
Painting: Two Girls, Fuchs again renders each work respectfully, including the gold - leaf
scrolls on the
traditional frame for the
painting of the young women and the severe edges of the grey frame for the maritim
painting of the young women and the severe edges of the grey frame for the maritime scene.
step inside and feel surrounded by
scroll paintings, sculptures, flickering butter lamps, the scent of incense, and the sound of Buddhist chanting, all to help them imagine the experience of standing inside the shrine room of a
traditional Himalayan home.»
Among the works here were Yan Xing's video monologue Daddy Project (2011), a work about growing up a single child in a single - parent family, and a
painting by Song Kun, Woman in Pinetree (2010), which combines an anime character with
traditional scroll -
painting techniques.
According the website, the Shrine room allows visitors to «step inside and feel surrounded by
scroll paintings, sculptures, flickering butter lamps, the scent of incense, and the sound of Buddhist chanting, all to help them imagine the experience of standing inside the shrine room of a
traditional Himalayan home.»
Using
traditional Song Dynasty landscape
painting techniques, with mineral - based inks and watercolors on handmade paper, his
paintings and
scrolls often explore the effects of environmental engineering and the resulting social upheaval, as well as the repercussions of natural disasters: from the U.S. government's ineffectual response to Hurricane Katrina to the Three Gorges Dam project on the Yangtze River.
Li, who is a completely self - taught artist, presents his works on rice paper mounted to
traditional Chinese silk
scrolls, using a combination of pen, brush, tea, ink, acrylic and oil
paint.
Using the images from paper towels as large prints, Svneson points to
traditional Japanese
scrolls, abstract and landscape
painting in a minimalist language.