Search results for Chinese Classical Art

Ming Dynasty Master Qiu Ying’s ‘Spring Morning in the Han Palace’ — A Masterpiece of Chinese Court Painting

Qiu Ying: a professional painter who rose from poverty to the top of Chinese art Qiu Ying (c. 1494–1552), courtesy name Shifu and sobriquet Shizhou, was born in Taicang, Jiangsu pr...

A Tang spring that survived an emperor’s flight

A visitor standing before The Court Lady Guoguo’s Spring Outing does not first see history. They see movement. There is no palace. No riverbank. No flowering tree. No painted sprin...

Chinese Audiences in Canada Praise Shen Yun, Call for Return to Traditional Values in China

Chinese audience members across Canada say Shen Yun offers a rare glimpse of authentic traditional culture, praising its artistry and message while expressing hopes for a return to...

Fei Tian College MFA Graduation Exhibition Blends Technical Excellence With Human Stories

The 2026 Fine Arts Exhibition at Fei Tian College opened this week at the college’s newly renovated Function Hall in Middletown, presenting a collection of oil paintings and graphi...

Order, character and time preserved in China’s classical furniture

The first time one truly stands before a Ming-style horseshoe-back armchair, a quiet misperception arises. It does not feel like an antique. It feels like a piece of modern design...

Artist Zhao Li Turns Painting Into A Performance Of Color, Flowers, And Emotional Intensity

Zhao Li is a Chinese artist and illustrator. Public bio snippets point to a background in fine art studies in Xi’an and Torino, which fits a practice grounded in both academic trai...

Chinese art exhibition reflects transformative modern times

Visitors can soak up one of the largest collections of Chinese contemporary artworks to ever be displayed in Auckland through until late August.

Four decades of Chinese art, 67 works and a show that defies easy categorisation

Auckland Art Gallery’s Forever Tomorrow: Chinese Art Now 永远的明天：中国艺术进行时 invites you into the lived experience of modern China. Running until August, Auckland Art Galler...

Fei Tian College MFA Graduation Exhibition Blends Technical Excellence With Human Stories

The 2026 Fine Arts Exhibition at Fei Tian College opened this week at the college’s newly renovated Function Hall in Middletown, presenting a collection of oil paintings and graphi...

Hu Liren Calls Shen Yun an Epic Masterpiece After Seven-Year Wait

Recently, well-known social media personality Hu Liren attended a performance by the Shen Yun Performing Arts troupe at the David H. Koch Theater at New York’s Lincoln Center and d...

Blooming good: Monet, maestros shine as garden art bridges East and West

Two famed water lily paintings by French Impressionist master Claude Monet will go on display in Hong Kong from Friday in a free exhibition highlighting cultural exchange between E...

I could escape this feeling with my China girl

Tired of Turandot? "The Dancing Goddess” at the China Institute Gallery gives us a glimpse at a real Peking Opera queen.

Asia-Pacific Community: Cultures bridged through ink, brush at China-Malaysia arts show

KUALA LUMPUR, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Beneath the quiet grace of brush and ink, a striking cross-cultural dialogue unfolds in Kuala Lumpur: Chinese seal script curls elegantly alongsid...

‘Stamp boy’: sealing passion of China emperor criticised for harming artistic integrity

As one of the most frequently portrayed Chinese emperors in modern costume dramas, Qing dynasty Emperor Qianlong is also renowned for his obsessive habit of impressing seals onto h...

China’s Five Sacred Creatures and What They Actually Meant

The dragon: lord of transformation, emblem of imperial power The Shuowen Jiezi, the Han dynasty’s great etymological dictionary compiled around 100 CE, describes the dragon as “the...

Shen Yun Sold Out in Toronto as Chinese Immigrants Say the Show Restored Their Cultural Identity

Audience members wept during the performance and called Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance the antidote to CCP-imposed fear

‘Speaks to Everyone’: Shen Yun Draws Praise From Theatergoers in Worcester, MA

Interviews by Julie Wang WORCESTER, Massachusetts — On April 25-26, Shen Yun Performing Arts held three shows at the prestigious Hanover Theater in Worcester, drawing glowing revie...

Ancient Chinese Health Wisdom: What the Book of Rites Says About the Body

In classical Chinese thought, virtue produces a physically observable effect on the body The Book of Rites (Liji) is one of ancient China’s three canonical ritual texts, alongside...

Taiwan defies Beijing with its art

At the Met, “Infinite Artistry” Reframes Japanese Ceramics as a Living Philosophy

From Neolithic fire vessels to gold-repaired tea bowls, the exhibition traces an unbroken thread between ancient clay and contemporary life.

Fanglin Luo: Embodying Tradition

London-based artist and curator Fanglin Luo's interdisciplinary practice seamlessly moves between performance, painting and photography. The post Fanglin Luo: Embodying Tradition a...

Etherial Elegance: The Breathtaking Traditional And Digital Portraits Of Yu Ming

Yu Ming is a profoundly talented painter and digital artist celebrated for his masterful approach to figurative art and portraiture. He possesses a rare ability to capture the raw...

Art on trial - a sculptor's arrest highlights new extremes for censorship in China

Gao Zhen is being retroactively punished for 15 year-old-works, in a case that has alarmed rights groups.

Shen Yun Captivates Baltimore Audiences, Earns Praise From Maryland Lawmaker

Shen Yun’s return to Baltimore drew enthusiastic praise from audiences and officials alike, highlighting the performing troupe's artistic excellence and portrayal of traditional Ch...