Download or read book Painting on China in the French Style written by Gigi Branch and published by Stenlake Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2008-08-16 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Painting on China in the French Style written by Gigi Branch and published by Marston House Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to painting porcelain in the French style. It describes in detail all the techniques for recreating the much-loved designs of Sevres. All the techniques require a step-by-step approach, and each work is thoroughly illustrated in stages and with finished work.
Download or read book Painting French Dolls written by Neva Wade Garnett and published by Hobby House PressInc. This book was released on 1985 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last porcelain doll makers, both those who make reproductions and originals, have a detailed face painting manual and visual guide to aid in painting those all important doll facial highlights. Using prize-winning French dolls made by the author, doll makers see precisely recreated French faces with a variety of styles. The incredibly detailed color photographs will be a guide to every brush stroke. 60 gorgeous color and 41 b/w photos.
Download or read book Shapely Bodies written by Christine A. Jones and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shapely Bodies: The Image of Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century France constructs the first cultural history of porcelain making in France. It takes its title from two types of “bodies” treated in this study: the craft of porcelain making shaped clods of earth into a clay body to produce high-end commodities and the French elite shaped human bodies into social subjects with the help of makeup, stylish patterns, and accessories. These practices crossed paths in the work of artisans, whose luxury objects reflected and also influenced the curves of fashion in the eighteenth century. French artisans began trials to reproduce fine Chinese porcelain in the 1660s. The challenge proved impossible until they found an essential ingredient, kaolin, in French soil in the 1760s. Shapely Bodies differs from other studies of French porcelain in that it does not begin in the 1760s at the Sèvres manufactory when it became technically possible to produce fine porcelain in France, but instead ends there. Without the secret of Chinese porcelain, artisans in France turned to radical forms of experimentation. Over the first half of the eighteenth century, they invented artificial alternatives to Chinese porcelain, decorated them with French style, and, with equal determination, shaped an identity for their new trade that distanced it from traditional guild-crafts and aligned it with scientific invention. The back story of porcelain making before kaolin provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of artisanal innovation and cultural mythmaking. To write artificial porcelain into a history of “real” porcelain dominated by China, Japan, and Meissen in Saxony, French porcelainiers learned to describe their new commodity in language that tapped into national pride and the mythic power of French savoir faire. Artificial porcelain cut such a fashionable image that by the mid-eighteenth century, Louis XV appropriated it for the glory of the crown. When the monarchy ended, revolutionaries reclaimed French porcelain, the fruit of a century of artisanal labor, for the Republic. Tracking how the porcelain arts were depicted in documents and visual arts during one hundred years of experimentation, Shapely Bodies reveals the politics behind the making of French porcelain’s image. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Download or read book Henri Bertin and the Representation of China in Eighteenth Century France written by John Finlay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an in-depth study of the intellectual, technical, and artistic encounters between Europe and China in the late eighteenth century, focusing on the purposeful acquisition of information and images that characterized a direct engagement with the idea of "China." The central figure in this story is Henri-Léonard Bertin (1720–1792), who served as a minister of state under Louis XV and, briefly, Louis XVI. Both his official position and personal passion for all things Chinese placed him at the center of intersecting networks of like-minded individuals who shared his ideal vision of China as a nation from which France had much to learn. John Finlay examines a fascinating episode in the rich history of cross-cultural exchange between China and Europe in the early modern period, and this book will be an important and timely contribution to a very current discussion about Sino-French cultural relations. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, visual culture, European and Chinese history.
Download or read book For China Painting written by Anglo-French Art Co. (Chicago, Ill.) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Particular Account of the Emperor of China s Gardens Near Pekin in a Letter from F Attiret a French Missionary Now Employ d by that Emperor to Paint the Apartments in Those Gardens to His Friend at Paris Translated from the French by Sir Harry Beaumont written by Jean Denis Attiret and published by . This book was released on 1752 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese Art The Impossible Collection written by Adrian Cheng and published by Assouline Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While readers will come away from Chinese Art with a nuanced understanding of Chinese culture, the volume is also a work of art in its own right—a must-have collectible for any devotee of Chinese art and culture. Assouline’s Ultimate Collection is an homage to the art of luxury bookmaking—the oversized volume is hand-bound using traditional techniques, with several of the plates hand-tipped on art-quality paper and housed in a luxury silk clamshell.
Download or read book Beyond Chinoiserie written by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beyond Chinoiserie, historians of art, literature, and material culture address artistic relations between China and the West during the nineteenth century, a time when Western powers’ attempts at extending a sphere of influence in China led to increasingly hostile interactions.
Download or read book The Art Amateur written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chinese Art Book written by Colin Mackenzie and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese Art Book is a beautifully packaged, authoritative, and unprecedented overview of Chinese art from its earliest dynasties to the contemporary generation of artists enlivening today's art world. 300 works represent every form of Chinese visual art, including painting, calligraphy, sculpture, ceramics, figurines, jade, bronze, gold and silver, photography, video, installation, and performance art. Full of surprises for readers of all levels, The Chinese Art Book breaks new ground by pairing works that speak to one another in unexpected ways, enlightening historical, stylistic and cultural connections. Concise descriptive essays place each work in context, while cross-references lead the reader on a fascinating journey through Chinese art history. The Chinese Art Book features an introductory essay by Colin Mackenzie, Senior Curator of Chinese Art at the Nelson-Akins Museum of Art, along with an accessible summary of Chinese political and cultural history, a comprehensive glossary defining technical terms, and an illustrated timeline.
Download or read book The Modernization of Chinese Art written by Jane Zheng and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fist academic study on modernity at the Shanghai Art College The Shanghai Art College was one of the most important art schools in Republican China. This is the first academic study written on the early history of the College. It makes a major contribution to the history of art education in China, Shanghai in particular. The book presents a new approach to how people understand the modernization of Chinese art, and the significance and consequences of modernity in the Shanghai art world of the period 1913-1937. The author proposes new theoretical models to explain the interactions between multiple levels of social structures and artists, with a special emphasis on the role of art education institutions in transforming artists, artworks and the development of artistic fields. Presenting unique historical images hereto hidden in the archives of the College, the book brings forward the distinctive modern characteristics of the early 20th-century Shanghai Art College.
Download or read book Mariette and the Science of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth Century Europe written by Kristel Smentek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated connoisseur, drawings collector, print dealer, book publisher and authority on the art of antiquity, Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774) was a pivotal figure in the eighteenth-century European art world. Focusing on the trajectory of Mariette?s career, this book examines the material practices and social networks through which connoisseurs forged the idea of art as an object of empirical and historical analysis. Drawing on significant unpublished archival material as well as on histories of science, publishing, collecting and display, this book shows how Mariette and his colleagues? practices of classification and interpretation of the graphic arts gave rise to new conceptions of artistic authorship and to a history of art that transcended the biographies of individual artists. To follow Mariette?s career through the eighteenth century is to see that art was consolidated as a specialized category of intellectual inquiry-and that style emerged as its structuring analytic device-in the overlapping spaces of the collector?s cabinet, the connoisseur?s portfolio and the dealer?s shop.
Download or read book China on Paper written by Marcia Reed and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Getty Research Institute, Nov. 6, 2007 to Feb. 10, 2008.
Download or read book The Compelling Image written by James Cahill and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Cahill explores the radiant painting of that tumultuous era when the collapse of the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu conquest of China dramatically changed the lives and thinking of artists and intellectuals. Over 250 illustrations, including 12 color plates, are drawn from collections in the United States, Europe, Japan, and China.
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Download or read book A Chinese Artist in the School of Paris written by Haoyu Ku and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Under political and cultural influence from the West, China underwent enormous changes from the turn of the last century. In 1911, the Chinese monarchy was overthrown and replaced by a republic. The Chinese elites at that time learnt new ideas and techniques from the West, including literature, drama, music, film and costume, which helped to create a brand new picture of China. In terms of painting, artists adopted new painting techniques to produce Western-style paintings. Some of them went to Japan to learn Western art, and some choose to go to France including Sanyu. In 1921, Sanyu arrived in Paris and studied at the Acaddmie de la Grande Chaumière to learn modem Western art. In the 1920s, Sanyu produced a number of linear drawings in this Academy. Sanyu's work stylistically echoes the sketches of Matisse and Picasso, particularly their use of simple continuous lines to portray the contour of the body. It might also be possible that Sanyu was influenced by Foujita, an artist who came from Japan and used Japanese fine brush to make sketches, as Sanyu also used Chinese brush to depict the contour lines. When his technique became mature, Sanyu also painted in oil and his oil paintings not only continued the styles of Matisse and Picasso, but were also influenced by artists from the School of Paris including Modigliani and Kisling. Therefore, from Sanyu's work one can understand how a Chinese art student practiced Western-style art in the Parisian art world of the early twentieth century. What is special about Sanyu is that he did not return to China after he finished studying in Paris, as did many other Chinese artists. From the year 1921 until he passed away in 1966, Sanyu spent most of his time in Paris creating modern paintings. Furthermore, many well-known artists from the School of Paris at that time were not native French, but from other places in the world. After their long periods of time being immersed in the art field of Paris, these artists are considered as important Parisian artists. Sanyu's painting style and lifestyle are quite similar to those of this group of artists. Sanyu, as a result, is not only a "Chinese artist," but also a "Parisian artist," or a member of the School of Paris. In the 1920s and 1930s, Sanyu was quite successful in Paris: His work was appreciated by a well-known patron Henri-Pierre Roche, and also exhibited at the Salon d'automne. However, it may be because of his irresponsibility or eccentricity that, in summation, Sanyu's career development in Paris was not satisfactory. Moreover in 1940, the styles of modern art were changing and Abstract Expressionism of the American avant-garde became the mainstream of the time. Sanyu's style remained constant and gradually lost its continuity with the major groundbreaking styles of the time. Nevertheless, when comparing Sanyu's work to other Chinese artists of the same generation, his work appears much more mature. In addition, works of many of these artists were destroyed or lost in the series of disasters in China and Sanyu's work was fortunately kept in good condition in Paris. We therefore can examine the whole spectrum of Sanyu's work. His paintings also provide us with valuable information on how Chinese artists practiced Western painting in the 1920s and 1930s. These are the reasons that Sanyu's work are considered fascinating and worthy of study today.
