Chinese drawing: part one
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This is the right-hand side of the two-page spread in my Moleskine notebook, turned reporter style. I don't think it turned out too badly. Staedtler triplus fineliner pen in a Moleskine notebook, using ideas from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, a Chinese classic on painting landscapes and rock-forms.
Chinese Horizontal emphasis
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Chinese Architecture
The most important is the emphasis on the horizontal axis, in particular the construction of a heavy platform and a large roof that floats over this base, with the vertical walls not as well emphasized. This contrasts Western architecture, which tends to grow in height and depth. Chinese architecture stresses the visual impact of the width of the buildings. The halls and palaces in the Forbidden City, for example, have rather low ceilings when compared to equivalent stately buildings in the West, but their external appearances suggest the all-embracing nature of imperial China. This of course does not apply to pagodas, which, in any case, are relatively rare. These ideas have found their way into modern Western architecture, for example through the work of Jørn Utzon
SC05804 Chinese Art
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Chinese Arts 03
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Students from the University of Salford's School of Art & Design have worked with the Wai Yin Chinese Women's Society and Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester to create a Messenger of Luck Dragon which will be on show until 13 March.
www.salford.ac.uk/news/details/1077
Chinese Arts 02
Image by University of Salford
Students from the University of Salford's School of Art & Design have worked with the Wai Yin Chinese Women's Society and Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester to create a Messenger of Luck Dragon which will be on show until 13 March.
www.salford.ac.uk/news/details/1077
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