Chinese painting
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Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. Painting in the traditional style is known today in Chinese as guó huà, meaning "national painting" or "native painti
Huang Quan's Almanac of Birds and Beasts; Later Shu, c. 950 CE.
Early Autumn by Qian Xuan (1235–1305)
Views of Xiaoxiang by Dong Yuan (932–962). Dong is considered as one of the originators of landscape painting styles; the scales of such paintings were often huge, with minuscule yet intricate pastoralist subjects showing the relative enormity of the landscape. Zoom into the left to see a group of men engaging in seine-haul fishing.
Silk painting depicting a man riding a dragon, 5th century BCE.
Chinese art
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Chinese art is visual art that originated in or is practiced in China, Greater China or by Chinese artists. Art created by Chinese residing outside of China can also be considered a part of Chinese ar
Auspicious Cranes by Emperor Huizong depicting a scene on top of Kaifeng city gate, 16th January 1112.
A section of the Nine Dragons scroll, 1244 CE
A red pot with two "ears"; by Peiligang culture; 6000–5200 BC; ceramic; Shanghai Museum
Dotted pottery pot, semi-mountain type; by Yangshao culture from China; 2700–2300 BCE; Gansu Provincial Museum (Lanzhou)