Painting

Chinese Paint is very famous in the world. We know from textual and archaeological sources that painting was practiced in China from very early times and in a variety of media. In this unit we will look at two distinct aspects of painting during the Song and Yuan dynasties.  Because many painters created highly detailed scenes of daily life, we can look at paintings for the information they provide about social life during this period.  Painting as an art form also reached a very high standard of quality during the Song , which is considered by many to be a high point in the development of the fine arts in China . In the lecture, we are going to learn how to paint a range of popular subjects using Traditional & Contemporary Chinese Brush Painting techniques. Projects gradually increase in difficulty, and feature such subjects as swallows, bamboo, wild orchids, plum blossoms, pandas, horses, peonies and more.