With Red Lotus, Pan emphasizes the relationship between ink painting and Chinese identity in the modern era.
Dr. Kristen Loring Brennan
For its spectacular technical mastery of ink and color, and global relevance as a grand-scale abstract composition, Panorama of Mount Lu stands as a monument to Zhang’s legacy.
Zhang Daqian, Panorama of Mount Lu
For its spectacular technical mastery of ink and color, and global relevance as a grand-scale abstract composition, Panorama of Mount Lu stands as a monument to Zhang’s legacy.
Zhang Daqian, Panorama of Mount Lu
This essay introduces art created in the formative years of the People's Republic of Chnia, when Mao’s leadership shaped nearly every aspect of Chinese culture.
Art in the Mao era and Cultural ...
Founding the Nation marks the rapid transformation of mainstream art into propaganda during the Mao era.
Dong Xiwen, The Founding of the Nation
Han’s Night-Shining White exemplifies the expressive power of the line, the backbone of Chinese painting.
Han Gan, Night-Shining White
To the Front! is a widely circulated print that sought to denounce the inaction of those in power.
Hu Yichuan, To the Front!
In this captivating oil painting, Xu Beihong recounts an ancient legend that pictures the heroic 3rd-century B.C.E. prince Tian Heng at a pivotal moment.
Xu Beihong, Tian Heng and His Five ...
In Flying in the Rain, Gao Jianfu pictured a squadron of biplanes emerging from cloudy skies in loose formation.
Gao Jianfu, Flying in the Rain
Color and brushwork create a golden pheasant in this Qing dynasty hanging scroll
Hua Yan, Pheasant, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum
Wang Shimin reimagines the past in this Qing dynasty landscape
Wang Shimin, Cloud Capped Mountains and Misty ...
Peonies, plum blossoms, radishes, and cabbages are all depicted in these calligraphic ink paintings
Zhao Zhiqian, Flowers Album
These garden scenes are examples of how professional artists in Qing-dynasty China made a living
Wang Shishen, Garden scene album leaves
Ren Xiong's captivating self-portrait tells us a great deal about the principles of Chinese painting, the roles of self-portraiture and portraiture, and the canon of Chinese art.
Ren Xiong, Self-Portrait
An artist who used landscape as a way to process the fall of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty.
Gong Xian, Eight Views of Landscape
Mini furniture and figurines give us a tiny look into Ming dynasty life
Miniature furniture and figurines in a Ming ...
This begonia-shaped porcelain bowl attempts to achieve purity and perfection in its shape, thinness, and glaze
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