Zhu Wei, “Ink and Wash Research Lecture Series (unfinished)” (2015), ink and color pigment on paper (click to enlarge) Gao Qian’s painting “Hua Jian Ji No. 2” (2014) is superbly executed in ink and ...

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What does it mean to paint now, in an image-saturated world where every moment can be captured in high resolution and consumed within seconds? Recent contemporary painting trends suggest a widespread ...

<< Previous Chapter: Multispectral Imaging of Paintings in the Infrared to Detect and Map Blue Pigments--John K. Delaney, Elizabeth Walmsley, Barbara H. Berrie, and Colin F. Fletcher Few would argue ...

Having trained under the guidance of Shen Shijia, a legend in the field, Yu has dedicated his life to perfecting the art of Chinese landscape painting. Opinions expressed by Digital Journal ...

Artists have been raiding the toolkits of the Old Masters with new urgency of late, borrowing and reworking Renaissance and Baroque compositional drama, symbolism, and increasingly, their ...

Curved lines and block colors in shades of orange, yellow and blue create the image of an artist, framed by a border of abstract shapes. Look a little closer and you can see the artist’s beret with ...

A show at Nahmad Contemporary is an outgrowth of debates around “tradition” in art. Can artists embrace beauty while reaching for new technology? By Travis Diehl Every new generation of artists, ...

When the international art world turns its attention to Basel in June, Art Basel once again marks the epicenter of the global art market. At the same time, a network of satellite formats has ...

Chinese jades produced in the earliest periods of China, during the Neolithic period (5000 to 1700 BCE) to the Han dynasty (206 BCE to 220 CE), were typically fashioned by abrasive techniques using ...