Title: History of Chinese art - New World Encyclopedia
Headings: History of Chinese art
History of Chinese art
Historical development to 221 B.C.E.
Neolithic pottery
Jade culture
Bronze casting
Early Chinese music
Early Chinese poetry
Chu and Southern culture
Early Imperial China (221 B.C.E.– 220 C.E.)
Qin sculpture
Pottery
TLV Mirrors
Han poetry
Han paper art
Other Han art
Period of Division (220–581)
Influence of Buddhism
Poetry
Calligraphy
The Sui and Tang dynasties (581–960)
Buddhist architecture and sculpture
Golden age of Chinese poetry
Li Po and Du Fu
Late Tang poetry
Painting
Song and Yuan dynasties (960–1368)
Song poetry
Song painting
Yuan drama
Yuan painting
Late imperial China (1368-1911)
Ming poetry
Ming prose
Ming painting
Qing drama
Qing poetry
Early Qing painting
Shanghai School (1850 – 1890)
Qing fiction
New China Art (1912-1949)
Transformation
The Big Three
Comics
Painting
Guohua
Communist art (1950-1980s)
The loss of the Big Three
Painting
Poetry
Redevelopment (Mid-1980s - 1990s)
Contemporary Art
Visual art
Contemporary Chinese art market
The new visual art market
See also
Notes
References
External links
Credits

Content: Both used brushes and ink on silk or paper. The earliest paintings were figure paintings, followed later by landscapes and bird-and-flower paintings. Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism powerfully influenced the subjectmatter and style of Chinese art. Historical development to 221 B.C.E.
Neolithic pottery
Black eggshell pottery of the Longshan culture (c. 3000–2000 B.C.E.)
Early forms of art in China are found in the Neolithic Yangshao culture (Chinese: 仰韶文化; pinyin: Yǎngsháo Wénhuà ), which dates back to the sixth millennium B.C.E. Archeological findings such as those at the Banpo have revealed that the Yangshao made pottery; early ceramics were unpainted and most often ornamented by with marks made by pressing cords into the wet clay. The first pictorial decorations were fish and human faces, which eventually evolved into symmetrical-geometric abstract designs, some painted. The most distinctive feature of Yangshao culture was the extensive use of painted pottery, especially human facial, animal, and geometric designs.