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Chinese art
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Chinese art
Contents
Painting
Sculpture
Ceramics
Decorative arts
Architecture
Chinoiserie
History and development of Chinese art
Neolithic pottery
Jade culture
Bronze casting
Chu and Southern culture
Early Imperial China (221 BC–AD 220)
Qin art
Han art
Period of division (220–581)
Influence of Buddhism
Calligraphy
Painting
The Sui and Tang dynasties (581–960)
Buddhist architecture and sculpture
Painting
The Song and Yuan dynasties (960–1368)
Song painting
Yuan painting
Pottery
Late imperial China (1368–1911)
Ming painting
Early Qing painting
Late Qing Art
Shanghai School
New China art (1912–1949)
Modern Art Movement
Postwar Chinese Art (1949–1976)
The Mainland
The 17 Years
The Cultural Revolution
Taiwan
Fifth Moon Group五月畫會
Ton-Fan Art Group東方畫會
Hong Kong
Overseas
Paris
United States
Redevelopment (mid-1980s – 1990s)
Contemporary art
Visual art
Art market
Museums
See also
References
Additional sources
Further reading
External links

Content: Much of what is known of early Chinese figure painting comes from burial sites, where paintings were preserved on silk banners, lacquered objects, and tomb walls. Many early tomb paintings were meant to protect the dead or help their souls get to paradise. Others illustrated the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius, or showed scenes of daily life. Most Chinese portraits showed a formal full-length frontal view, and were used in the family in ancestor veneration. Imperial portraits were more flexible, but were generally not seen outside the court, and portraiture formed no part of Imperial propaganda, as in other cultures. Many critics consider landscape to be the highest form of Chinese painting. The time from the Five Dynasties period to the Northern Song period (907–1127) is known as the "Great age of Chinese landscape". In the north, artists such as Jing Hao, Li Cheng, Fan Kuan, and Guo Xi painted pictures of towering mountains, using strong black lines, ink wash, and sharp, dotted brushstrokes to suggest rough rocks. In the south, Dong Yuan, Juran, and other artists painted the rolling hills and rivers of their native countryside in peaceful scenes done with softer, rubbed brushwork. These two kinds of scenes and techniques became the classical styles of Chinese landscape painting.