The artwork is based on a well-known Chinese folktale about a group of monkeys attempting to capture the moon.
Modern China
This is an iconic photo of Cixi, the Empress Dowager of Qing China, in the early 1900s
Xunling, The Empress Dowager Cixi with foreign ...
From the end of the twentieth century to today, rapid improvements in the economy, increasing globalization, and growing status as a major political and military power have continued to significantly alter life, including in the cultural sphere, ensuring China’s place in the contemporary art field.
Modern China (1912–present), an introduction
How modern is this Chinese painting? Of course, it’s a trick question; it all depends on what you mean by "Chinese," or by "modern."
Wang Zhen, Buddhist Sage
Au Ho-nien looks to Western realism and the practice of sketching from life as a way to revitalize Chinese art.
An interview with Au Ho-nien
Can a photograph be appreciated in the manner of a Chinese painting? "Father of Asian photography" Lang Jingshan asked this question nearly a century ago.
Lang Jingshan and early Chinese photography
When thousands of schoolchildren died in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, Ai Weiwei refused to stay silent.
Ai Weiwei, Remembering and the Politics of ...
Promoting Mao as a revolutionary leader, this portrait melds Chinese landscape convention with socialist realism.
Liu Chunhua, Chairman Mao en Route to ...
Over 100 million porcelain seeds filled the Tate’s Turbine Hall in a critique of conformity and censorship.
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