Who is Qi Baishi?
The Chinese artist, Qi Baishi (1864-1957), created the most expensive painting sold in the world last year. His Eagle Standing on a Pine Tree with Four-character Couplet in Seal Script, which he...
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Just a Second: Floating Perspective
Floating Perspective (noun) Floating Perspective is the name for the type of perspective sometimes used in Chinese art where there is not a single view of a subject but rather several shown at the same...
View ArticleMake the Time: Contemporary Chinese Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Currently on view through April 6th at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the fascinating exhibition, “Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China.” All of the works of art exhibited continue the...
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Ma Yuan: Landscape and Poetry
The Chinese court painter Ma Yuan explored the relationship between landscape painting and poetry. A Mountain Path in Spring depicts a scholar communing with nature. He stops for a moment to feel the...
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Who is Zhang Daqian?
In April, a painting by Chinese artist Zhang Daqian that was estimated to sell at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong for $8 million sold for $35 million to Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian, who just announced he...
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