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Lihua Zhao
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Lihua Zhao is a freelance writer living in Yangyuan. Born in Wangshi, a town famous for its clothing industry, Lihua graduated from the International Foreign Language University of Suzhou which is the center of the silk embroidery industry. She is writing about art in China for FAR.
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Contemporary Chinese master of the Yunnan School of painting, Wei Kan, who hails from Shandong Province, creates beautiful frescoes and modern pen and ink and wash drawings. Taught by Zhang...
Read MoreArt Article, September 1, 2008
China has a very long history of ceramics, which can be divided into pottery and porcelain. The first article in this series focused on pottery. This second article covers porcelain, also known...
Read MoreArt Article, June 3, 2008
Ceramics refers to making vessels, ornaments and other items from clay or china clay which is mixed with various materials, molded, shaped or spun on a wheel and then fired and sometimes painted...
Read MoreArt Article, March 27, 2008
Pop Art was born in Britain in the 1960s, then developed in the United States. It became the contemporary art form at art schools in the USA. It was a movement which praised ordinary things in...
Read MoreArt Article, February 12, 2008
Huanbin Cai, nicknamed Chase, was born in a working class family in the city of Shantou in Guangdong province in 1980. But from an early age Chase had a great interest in painting. He often used ...
Read MoreArt Article, December 5, 2007
China has an extensive tradition of landscape painting, with recorded and preserved works going back almost to the beginning of the first millennium A.D. The earliest landscape painting appeared...
Read MoreArt Article, October 1, 2007
Eight thousand years ago, near the Yellow River basin in China, the Ci Shan and Fei Ligang cultures emerged. In these areas, Chinese archeologists have unearthed pottery covered with...
Read MoreArt Article, July 31, 2007
In recent years, as the Chinese painting and fine art market has continued to heat up and become more of an investment potential, the risk of fakes and forgeries has become a major concern...
Read MoreArt Article, May 22, 2007
However you define "art", the culture or the society in which the art is created is often a key influencing factor. Chinese contemporary art is understandably reflective of the Chinese culture an...
Read MoreArt Article, February 1, 2007
To the Chinese, carving is a very important art form and has been for thousands of years. This art divides into three main categories based on the material used: woodcarving, bamboo carving...
Read MoreArt Article, December 29, 2006
China has always been famous for its silk. For millennia, the renowned "Silk Road" brought Chinese silk to Central Asia, Western Asia, Europe and Africa. The silk trade created exchanges...
Read MoreArt Article, September 29, 2006
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