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Chines Painting

July 30th, 2008

Angie

Chines Painting Reviews

Traditional and Contemporary Chinese Brush Painting: Using Ink and Water-Soluble Media

$11.98

With enthusiasm and energy, he guides the artist through all the traditional techniques, illustrating how to create atmosphere and light in landscapes, focusing on trees, water, mountains, sky and clouds. He shows how to capture liveliness and movement in animals, birds, fish and insects, and he transforms flowers and plants into beautiful works of art skilfully showing how to master composition, …

Watercolor: Chinese Brush (HT233)

$4.92

Learn the fundamentals or just augment your skills. This Walter Foster book Chinese Brush Painting teaches the very basic to the very specific. Youll find essential information….

Chinese Painting Techniques for Exquisite Watercolors

$28.99

Introduces the unique qualities of inks, rice papers and bamboo brushes. Twelve mini-demos teach Chinese brushstrokes and composition….

The works chosen by Shi Jinsong

Shi Jinsong was born 1969 in Dangyang county, Hubei province, China. He lives and works in Wuhan and Beijing China. Shi Jinsong has marked his stainless steel baby product line Na Zha, a child warrior deity of Chinese folklore celebrated for his bravery and its strategy in the field of battle. Befitting its title, this series of sculpture consists of a crib, a car, a walker, a toy, a needle tipped pacifiers and pieces of abacus, all equipped with deadly weapons inside out and evokes the image of Swiss Army knives. Artist Extreme Makeover objects formerly harmless and charming in this carefully constructed and worrying beautiful compilation mechanisms to expose was the constant battle we must fight to survive handling, erotic and violent nature of our consumer culture and fear world.Chambers Fine Arts is proud to announce the opening of Na Zha Baby Boutique. Made up of sculptures, drawings and photographs, this exhibition is the solo show by Shi Jinsong, One of the greatest young sculptors in China.

The title refers to a figure of folklore and sustainable Chinese mythology: Na Zha, a mischievous thief to supernatural powers and flamboyant fashion sense (legend has it his red silk trousers generated so much heat from the sea began to boil, enrage East Sea King Dragon). Na Zha essential ferocity long since tamed in Chinese psyche, he is now best known as a God of Lotteries and Paris, a totem of the commodification new global economy. "Na Zha" is here recast as the brand name for an outrageously unsafe line of products for baby. Meticulously assembled stainless steel complex mechanical designs, they include a deadly car, a sadistic Cradle, a sinister Walker, and wicked, multi-part Toy complete with needle tip lollipops and rendering abacus. Baby Boutique confronts its "customer" with a strange radical and attractive "product" luxury lethal to reveal the forces that dominate our lives in unimaginable ways.

Shi Jinsong enrolled at the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts in 1994, specializing in sculpture and mastering a variety of traditional techniques. Influenced three powerful stimuli – radical changes in socio-cultural China and a reading of Foucault's Madness and Civilization, and the birth of her first daughter – the artist began to investigate ideas of transformation and control. Featured in the region then China, a groundbreaking survey of contemporary art Chinese mounted at the Pompidou Centre in 2003,

Conclusions
Shi Jinsong had already established his own style and impact of work earned him strong reputation in Chinese art circles.

What to do next …
If you want more information about Shi Jinsong or research of his paintings please visit us on http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/shi_jinsong.htm

What is this picture?

I am looking for a painting that I believe is original Chinas. It represents a monk sitting on the edge a cliff (the left side of the painting) and the rest is just empty space. If anyone can identify this picture of my description, if Please just let me know what's his name and possibly a link to the photo. Thank you!

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