Chinese paintings - Traditional Chinese painting and Chinese calligraphy

Toperfect Art supplies Chinese painting techniques and history besides canvas art for sale, it is useful for painters and art fans.
Our online traditional Chinese painting gallery not only supplies reproduction, but also sell Chinese calligraphy. Our painters in Chinese art manufacturer from China are good at famous art reproductions and other ancient Chinese paintings wholesale such as modern, animals, landscapes, flowers, mountains.

Chinese Painting Techniques

Xuan paper, as discussed in a previous article, is most suitable for Chinese paintings and calligraphy. It is of the right texture to allow the writing brush wet with Chinese ink and held in a trained hand, to move freely on it, making strokes varying from dark to light, from solid to hollow. These soon turn out to be human figures, landscapes, mountains, animals, plants and flowers, birds, fish and insects, full of interest and life.
Many Chinese painter is at the same time a poet and calligrapher. He will often add a poem in his own hand on famous Chinese painting, which invariably carries an impression of his seal. The resulting piece of art is usually an integrated whole of four branches of Chinese art -- poetry, calligraphy, Chinese painting supplies and seal-cutting. You may find fantastic ancient art on Toperfect www.oilpaintingfactory.com.

Famous Chinese paintings are divided into two major categories: free hand brushwork (xieyi) and detailed brushwork (gongbi) . The former is characterized by simple and bold strokes intended to represent the exaggerated likenesses of the objects, while the latter by fine brushwork and close attention to detail. Employing different techniques, the two schools try to achieve the same end, the creation of beauty.

Chinese Painting History

China entered the slave society about 2000 B.C. Though no Chinese landscape painting of that period have ever come to light, that society witnessed the emergence of a magnificent bronze culture, and bronzes can only be taken as a composite art of Chinese painting and sculpture.
In 1949 from a tomb of the Warring States Period (475-221 B. C.) was unearthed a Chinese painting on silk of human figures, dragons and phoenixes. The earliest Chinese paintings animals on silk ever discovered in China, it measures about 30 cm long by 20 cm wide. From this and other early traditional Chinese painting art on silk it may be easily seen that the ancients were already familiar with the art of the writing or painting brush, for the strokes show vigour or elegance whichever was desired.  Our traditional Chinese painting gallery supplies reproductions of ancient art of this period that are strongly religious or mythological in themes.

Traditional Chinese Calligraphy

Chinese calligraphy, like the script itself, began with the hieroglyphs and, over the long ages of evolution, has developed various styles and schools, constituting an important part of the heritage of national culture.
Traditional Chinese calligraphy are generally divided into five categories: the seal character (zhuan), the official or clerical script (li), the regular script (kai), the running hand (xing) and the cursive hand (cao).

Chinese Painting Supplies and Mounting or Framing

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