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

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Chinese jade ornament with dragon and phoenix design, late Spring and Autumn Period (722 B.C.E. -481 B.C.E. ). Chinese art traditions are the oldest continuous art traditions in the world. Early so-called " stone age art" in China, consisting mostly of simple pottery and sculptures, dates back to 10,000 B.C.E.. This early period was followed by a series of dynasties, most of which lasted several hundred years. Through dynastic changes, political collapses, Mongol and Manchurian invasions, wars, and famines, Chinese artistic traditions were preserved by scholars and nobles and adapted by each successive dynasty. The art of each dynasty can be distinguished by its unique characteristics and developments. Jade carvings and cast bronzes are among the earliest treasures of Chinese art. The origins of Chinese music and poetry can be found in the Book of Songs, containing poems composed between 1000 B.C.E. and 600 B.C.E.. The earliest surviving examples of Chinese painting are fragments of painting on silk, stone, and lacquer items dating to the Warring States period (481 - 221 B.C.E. ). Paper, invented during the first century C.E., later replaced silk. Beginning with the establishment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (265–420)|, painting and calligraphy were highly appreciated arts in court circles.