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Chinese Painting

      Chinese Painting (Xuan paper paintings): refers to paintings painted on Xuan paper or silk by ink and colors.  It is the main form of Chinese art.  And Chinese paintings refer on ink, Xuan paper which mounted on scroll.

  • Classification according to subject matter of Chinese painting:
  1. Chinese Landscape painting
  2. Chinese Bird & Flowers painting
  3. Chinese Figure painting
  • Four treasures of calligraphy and painting:
  1. Brush is a traditional Chinese writing instrument, made of animal hair, etc.

2.Chinese ink, black pigment used for writing and painting, is made of materials including pine soot, lacquer, and herbal medicine, etc.

3.Xuan paper including unprocessed, processed, and half processed, suitable for conveying the artistic expression of both calligraphy and painting.

4. Ink stone is made of special and rare stone used for grinding ink.

Famous Chinese painting:

 

 


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How many faces can you find? How many faces can you find?

Faces Puzzle
IPB Image
How many faces can you find? How many faces can you find?

If you can find 0 – 5 faces – Lazy
If you can find 6 – 7 faces – Normal
If you can find 8 – 9 faces – Very Normal
If you can find 10 – 11 faces – Smart
If you can find 12 – 13 faces – Genius

The secret of success is to relax your eyes, cultivate that far-away look.


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Color Wheel

 The primary colors are RED, YELLOW, and BLUE.

Primary Secondary Tertiary Colors

Primary Colors: Red, yellow and blue In traditional color theory, primary colors are the 3 pigment colors that can not be mixed or formed by any combination of other colors.  All other colors are derived from these 3 hues. 

Secondary Colors: Green, orange and purple These are the colors formed by mixing the primary colors.
Tertiary Colors: Yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green & yellow-green These are the colors formed by mixing a primary and a secondary color. That’s why the hue is a two word name, such as blue-green, red-violet, and yellow-orange.


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Art History Timeline

      ART has not always been what we think it is today. An object regarded as Art today may not have been perceived as such when it was first made, nor was the person who made it necessarily regarded as an artist. Both the notion of “art” and the idea of the “artist” are relatively modern terms.  Many of the objects we identify as art today — Greek painted pottery, medieval manuscript illuminations, and so on — were made in times and places when people had no concept of “art” as we understand the term. These objects may have been appreciated in various ways and often admired, but not as “art” in the current sense. 

      Art lacks a satisfactory definition. It is easier to describe it as the way something is done — “the use of skill and imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others” — rather than what it is. 

      Art is a testament of the moment and of the society in which the artist lives.  It can be the positive or negative, but meaning is always present.——Juan Genoves

      Art is a uniquely human activity that grows out of our inborn impulse to create.  We create things that we have no utilitarian purpose. 

      “There are two kinds of art… art that is intrinsically artistic and timeless, and art that is meant to part a fool and his money. Sometimes we need a common cleaning lady to remind us of the difference.”

      Art is a crystal of human civilization,  it is also part of our life, without art our life will be so dull. 

  • Line, shape, form, value, color, space, texture, balance, unity, contrast, emphasis, pattern, movement and rhythm create art.
  • Art includes the “major” arts of paintings, sculpture, and architecture……

      Art history spans the entire history of humankind.  Art is one of the parts in our lives, you can see it everywhere.  During the Romantic period, art came to be seen as “a special faculty of the human mind to be classified with religion and science”.  The history of art is the history in a visual form for aesthetical or communicative purposes, expressing ideas, emotions or.  In general it is a worldview.  You can express your emotion in paintings.  Over time visual art has been classified in diverse ways, from the medieval distinction between liberal arts and mechanical arts, to the modern distinction between fine arts and applied arts.  Expansion of the list of principal arts in the 20th century reached to nine: architecture, dance, sculpture, music, painting, poetry (described broadly as a form of literature with aesthetic purpose or function, which also includes the distinct genres of theatre and narrative), film, photography and comics……

Time Characteristics Chief Artists and Major Works  

Stone Age (30,000 b.c.–2500 b.c.)

 Cave paintings in the walls, fertility goddesses

Lascaux Cave Painting, Woman of Willendorf, Stonehenge

 

  

Mesopotamian (3500 b.c.–539 b.c.)

 

 Describe the events of wars which draw in stone Standard of Ur, Gate of Ishtar, Stele of Hammurabi’s Code  

Egyptian (3100 b.c.–30 b.c.)

 Pyramids and tomb painting Imhotep, Step Pyramid, Great Pyramids, Bust of Nefertiti  

Greek and Hellenistic (850 b.c.–31 b.c.)

 Statue, Greek idealism: balance, perfect proportions Parthenon, Myron, Phidias, Polykleitos, Praxiteles  

Roman (500 b.c.– a.d. 476)

 Roman realism Augustus of Primaporta, Colosseum, Trajan’s Column, Pantheon  

Indian, Chinese, and Japanese(653 b.c.–a.d. 1900)

 Colorful and traditional paintings Gu Kaizhi, Li Cheng, Guo Xi, Hokusai, Hiroshige  

Byzantine and Islamic (a.d. 476–a.d.1453)

Paintings more about religions:Islamic architecture and amazing maze-like design Hagia Sophia, Andrei Rublev, Mosque of Córdoba, the Alhambra Justinian partly restores Western Roman Empire

 Hagia Sophia, Andrei Rublev, Mosque of Córdoba, the Alhambra  

Middle Ages (500–1400)

 Celtic art, Carolingian Renaissance, Romanesque, Gothic St. Sernin, Durham Cathedral, Notre Dame, Chartres, Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto  

Early and High Renaissance (1400–1550)

 Rebirth of classical culture Ghiberti’s Doors, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael  

Venetian and Northern Renaissance (1430–1550)

 More focus on  portrait Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Dürer, Bruegel, Bosch, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden  

Mannerism (1527–1580)

 Art that breaks the rules; More focus on naked Tintoretto, El Greco, Pontormo, Bronzino, Cellini  
       

Neoclassical (1750–1850)

 More on revolution David, Ingres, Greuze, Canova  

Romanticism (1780–1850)

 

 About revolution Caspar Friedrich, Gericault, Delacroix, Turner, Benjamin West  

Realism (1848–1900)

 More real; en plein air rustic painting Corot, Courbet, Daumier, Millet  

Impressionism (1865–1885)

 Capturing fleeting effects of natural light Monet, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cassatt, Morisot, Degas  

Post-Impressionism (1885–1910)

 Natural light Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Seurat  

Fauvism and Expressionism (1900–1935)

 Harsh colors and flat surfaces Matisse, Kirchner, Kandinsky, Marc  

Cubism, Futurism, Supremativism, Constructivism, De Stijl (1905–1920)

 

 Pre– and Post–World War 1 art experiments: new forms to express modern life Picasso, Braque, Leger, Boccioni, Severini, Malevich  

Dada and Surrealism (1917–1950)

 Ridiculous art; painting dreams and exploring the unconscious Duchamp, Dalí, Ernst, Magritte, de Chirico, Kahlo  

Abstract Expressionism (1940s–1950s) and Pop Art (1960s)

 

      

 

 

 Post–World War II: pure abstraction and expression without form; popular art absorbs consumerism Gorky, Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko, Warhol, Lichtenstein  

Modern Arts

  

      To me art is anything that stimulates my audio and visual senses.  It doesn’t matter whether it is a natural landscape, or a human creation.  I enjoyed all forms of art.  Reading a good book, watching a great film or TV program, an afternoon tour of the museum exhibits or camping in the wilderness are all considered nice treats for me.  Art, in a broad sense, keeps me motivated to go on my otherwise boring daily routines.  It is not just important to my life, it is an indispensable part of my life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  


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Tongue Twister Fun

    1. Mr. See owned a saw.
      And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw.
      Now, See’s saw sawed Soar’s seesaw
      Before Soar saw See,
      Which made Soar sore.
      Had Soar seen See’s saw
      Before See sawed Soar’s seesaw,
      See’s saw would not have sawed
      Soar’s seesaw.
      So See’s saw sawed Soar’s seesaw.
      But it was sad to see Soar so sore
      just because See’s saw sawed
      Soar’s seesaw.
    2. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
      Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
      If Peter Piper Picked a peck of pickled peppers,
      Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
    3. She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I’m sure she sells seashore shells.
    4. Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?How much wood would a woodchuck chuck If a woodchuck could chuck wood? He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, And chuck as much as a woodchuck would If a woodchuck could chuck wood.