Sunday, August 2, 2020

zhou dongqing ... the pleasure of fishes ... another long paper scroll ... dated 1291 ...

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https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/40393 reading from right to left ... NB I've been wondering ... if the title should read...
Saturday, August 1, 2020

liu cai's astonishing painting, painted before 1130 ... fish swimming among falling flowers

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one of the greatest masterpieces of chinese classical painting https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/32476/
Friday, July 31, 2020

wu daozi's procession of 87 immortals ... animated ...

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https://haiyan-huang.com/87-immortals https://vimeo.com/65298666 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Eighty-seven_Celestials...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

chinese mythology, dragons and stuff by chen rong ... another scrapbook blog to be expanded slowly as & when

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_mythology the wikipedia article is encyclopaedic ... but i'll skim it and add images that appeal t...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

shen-zhou

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Zhou
Saturday, July 25, 2020

rain in classical chinese and japanese art ... i still don't get it ...

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hardly any chinese painters tried to depict falling rain drops ... and in japan the subject seems to have been avoided until hokusai showed ...
Friday, July 24, 2020

zhang yucai ... beneficent rain ...

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https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/40454
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

ai weiwei ... this one might stretch as it goes on

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from ai weiwei ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei and shane mccauslands study of Zhao Mengfu ...