CHINESE ART

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Chinese art are art that whether ancient or modern originated by China or by Chinese artists. On the stage of art, dateback to 10000 BC, the chinese art mostly have a simple pottery and sculptures. On this early periods, they were followed by a series of art dynasties which most of it were lasted for a several hundread years. On Qin Dynasty, they are The Terracotta Army inside Mausoleum of the First Qin Empero which consisits of more than 7000 life-size tomb terra-cotta figures of warriors and the horses buried with self-proclaimed first Emperor of Qin or Qin Shi Huang. This was happened in 210-209 BC.Then followed by Han Dynasty which produced a painting on a ceramic tile from tomb near Luoyang, Henan province which dated to Eastern Han Dynasty in 25-220 AD. The painting are about two gentelmen engrossed in coversation while two others look on. Then, on 2nd century BC, they were a glided bronze lamp with shutter, in the shape of midservant which from the Western Han Dynasty. Painting and Caliagraphy  are the most highley appreciated art in the ancient of China. The implements were the brush pen which made by animal hair and black ink was made by animal glue and pine soot.

Cut off by mountains, deserts and oceans from other centres of human evolution, China developed its own self-contained but highly advanced civilization, which featured an astonishing combination of progressive technology, ancient art, and cultural awareness. The world's most ancient pottery, for example, is the Xianrendong Cave Pottery, from Jiangxi Province, and Yuchanyan Cave Pottery from Hunan. This influential ceramic development spread into Siberia - see the Amur River Basin pottery (14,300 BCE) - and Japan, in the form of Jomon Pottery (14,500 BCE). Strangely however, little evidence has so far emerged of any significant tradition of cave art on the Chinese mainland.

CHINESE ART CHARACTERISTIC

  • Metaphysical, Daoist Aspect
  • Moral, Confucian Aspect
  • Inspirational But Not Essentially Religious
  • Inner Essence Not Outer Appearance
  • Symbolism in Chinese Visual Art
  • The Impact of the Amateur Artist

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