Yan Keqin's paintings inherit the traditional values of Chinese ink-and-water art. Provided to China Daily Painter Yan Keqin uses black ink to portray a world of colors. His genre of art is called ...

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Landscape-inspired geographies of the soul and mind — that’s one way to think of the ink-brush paintings of contemporary Chinese artist Pan Gongkai. Those landscapes can range from intimate garden ...

The artistic alchemy of ancient and modern Chinese masters will be presented in a major exhibit opening Friday at the University of Virginia’s Fralin Museum of Art. Included are paintings so ...

In a golden field, an illustrated lion stands on his hind legs with a comical look of befuddlement on his face, bathed in the warm glow of the sun. Accompanied by a flock of abstract birds and a ...

There was a time, not so long ago, when the manipulation of images was a rare and magical thing. Expensive and time consuming, I was confined largely to the worlds of advertising, marketing and glossy ...

Sifting through bags of goat hairs to select quality ones for the production of Chinese ink brushes can be tough and boring, but this is routine work for Zhang Wennian, 50, who is an inheritor of the ...

One needs years of immersion in Chinese culture, language, history and philosophy to be able to fully appreciate the timeless beauty and symbolic richness of Chinese ink paintings. Despite this, ...

A COLLECTION of Chinese ink paintings by artist Hon Peow depicting local nature is on display at the Soka Gakkai Malaysia (SGM) branch in Bayan Lepas, Penang. The exhibition, titled “Depicting the ...

What do you think of when you think of traditional Chinese ink painting? To start with, ink on paper and silk. Then, century upon century of graceful, languid calligraphy and dreamy landscapes and ...