水墨画是中国绘画独有的美学形式，展现出东方艺术的大美之境，相传始于唐代，成于五代，盛于宋元。水墨画以黑白为主体并以色彩为辅， 构成了独一无二的艺术体系。“墨”即是“色”，用墨的浓淡变化来表现色的层次变化，“墨分五彩”，用墨的色度来 ...

A colored ink painting by Chinese artist Fu Baoshi (1904-65) sold for 230 million yuan ($35 million) at a Beijing auction over the weekend. The God of Cloud and Great Lord of Fate, dated 1954, was ...

Li Lei, the former executive director of the China Art Museum in Shanghai, speaks at the opening ceremony of the Inquiry on Water exhibition, which runs through Jan 31.[Photo provided to China Daily] ...

Editor's Note: The June exhibition "Journey to Lin Xi's World: I Am What I Am" at Beijing's Guardian Art Center brought together more than 500 works by Chinese ink painter Lin Xi, offering a ...

Xu Bing, "Square Word Calligraphy - The Song of Wandering Aengus Poem by William Butler Yeats" (1999), ink on paper. Installation view of Summoning Memories: Art ...

Shitouwa (original name: Wang Xiaoxin) is -first-level national artist with the PhD of fine art. He is also a famous scholar, cultural relics connoisseur and the modern landscape painter. As the ...

Wang Xijing is a famous painter specializing in realist portraits. Wang had an important turning point in 2000, transferring toward contemporary figure painting. The year also marked a revival of ink ...

Falling from the tip of a brush suspended in mid-air, an ink droplet touches a painted surface and blossoms into a masterpiece of ever-changing beauty. It weaves a tapestry of intricate, evolving ...

Japanese artist Akiko Nakayama manipulates alcohol and inks to create tree-like dendritic patterns during a live painting session. Credit: Akiko Nakayama Japanese artist Akiko Nakayama manipulates ...