Oriental Art

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the tradition of Sung Chinese flower-and-bird painting made itself felt though out Asia.
Among the Chinese themselves, flower-and-bird painting is a major form of pictorial expression, which for thousands of years has exercise their aesthetic imagination to extent comparable with, say, our European nude.
Assembly of Birds can best be described in Rowland¡¦s words ¡V a habitat group with a painted black cloth. For despite the beauty of its execution, it is as airless as a showcase in some provincial museum of natural history, in which someone has attempted to provide, for its palpably moribund occupants, a realistic setting of seashore, marsh, or tropical savannah.
Paintings of bamboos are entered under the heading mo chu, or ¡¥ink bamboo¡¦. This term does not only mean bamboo painting done solely in monochrome ink; it also implies that brush and ink are used in recognizably calligraphic way, and not merely to build up forms by describing boundary lines. Paintings of bamboo done ...

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