An emigre from post-war China, in Hong Kong Lui Shou-kwan married Chinese ink art with Western abstract art to forge the New Ink Movement It has been 50 years since the career of one of the major post ...
The Admonitions Scroll is one of the most important paintings in the world. It was originally painted by Gu Kaizhi (about AD 345?406), considered to be the father of classical Chinese figure painting.
Xu Beihong (1895-1953) is recognized as a key figure in the modernization of Chinese art in the 20th century. Trained in China and France, he sought to bring reforms to the home art scene and art ...