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During the Han period, poetry had started to flourish. The most popular form of poetry was fu, it is a mixture of rhyme and prose. At the time, poems were thought to be a more creative form of writing. Music and dancing was also a very important part of the Han culture. Many of the instruments required the user to pluck string. Many of the dancing contained many upper body movement and had many meanings to convey. Many forms of art also came out at the time. Many of which being wall painting, and embossed silk. Although artists were not high up in the social structure, they still were close to the

Usually oil paint is used on a cloth support such as a canvas or linen. It’s also flexible paint. Artist chose to use oil paint because it's slow drying. So therefore if the artist needs to go

Art is a particular form of social consciousness and of human activities, an important way for people to perceive, discover and improve life: according to the laws of beauty. It is the creation of tangible or intangible products containing great values of thought-aesthetics, cultural character, and emotions. In this sense, there are numerous types of art. Painting is one of the oldest forms of art on earth. From prehistoric times, artists not only used it to communicate, but they also used painting to entertain the viewers. Painting can be transformed, eliminating the tedium, fatigue, and stress in daily tasks to bring the joy. Fun in life or silence for the soul. In other words, painting is a language that communicates an artist 's ideas

A second medium was acrylic paint, which is a combination of pigment and a plaster vehicle (Fichner-Rathus, 2017). The third type of paint media was alkyd, is a semi-gloss enamel paint that, has the strength and durability of the artwork.

The Han China and Classical Athens’ culture also had a huge different to how the arts were created. The arts of the Athenians were more focus on themselves, the human body. For example, on the front cover page, there is a drawing or statue of a Greek man, the Greek man is standing in a weird position with his arms pointing down, there are a few lines emphasizing his muscles, torso, biceps, etc. (Front Cover). While the art of the Han China were more focus on the landscapes and scenes surround them, along with the serenity and balance of the world drawn on to canvases in great details (document L). In most paintings, the five Chinese elements called Wu Xing will most likely be included in the paintings; the five elements are wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Looking at Ch’iu Ying’s painting, you can clearly see the how Wu Xing is being presented in the painting, how the trees and mountains were presented in the background (document L). However, as you can see in the painting, there are only two men in the painting, this could mean that humans were inconsiderable in their arts (document L). As a conclusion, the two artistic styles were complete different from each other, the Han’s arts were more focus on nature in great details, while the Athenians’ art were more focus on the human body.

Casein is a milk based paint and tempera is an egg based paint. tempera is another common medium. Before oil painting became popular, most painting was done with tempera paints. Rather than oil, the pigments are held together with a sticky material, most commonly egg yolk. Egg yolk holds the pigments together, but it dries very fast and can sometimes give the paint a slightly yellow color. Nevertheless, it was a very common way to make paint before oils came around and is still used by many artists who enjoy working with fast-drying paints to create certain effects. Tempera is often used to paint wood, another common medium before the Italian

Painting was a way to record history of Chinese figures. There were not a lot of differences between the north and south china when it came to painting of religious and historic stories. The difference between the north and south in regards in paintings styles. Jing Hao and Guan Tong represented the northern schools and Dong Yuan and Juran represented the southern schools. The north did panoramic structures paintings and the south schools painted mountains and seas in southern china. The northern and southern china schools differed in other artistic fields. Both schools did have a close relationship in landscaping

The one thing that makes watercolors the least expensive medium is the amount of supplies needed to get started, which consists of only the essentials: paints, paintbrushes, watercolor paper, a pallete, and water. Because of its need of just the bare necessities, this makes watercoloring an affordable pastime. (McArdle) The forms of traditional watercolors are pans and tubes. Furthermore, the difference between the two is that tubes of paint are already moist, so water isn’t required; pans on the other hand are hard cakes of paint that need water in order to be used. (McArdle) Along with traditional watercolors, there are two other derived forms of watercolor: tempera and gouache. Unlike most watercolors, tempera uses a binding agent instead of gum arabic, meaning that they are made with sizes1. Because of this ingredient, tempera paintings are long-lived. (Steel) Meanwhile, gouache contains larger

Folder 4GAU is an example of a bronze painting known as You. Bronze paintings were discovered in the Shang Dynasty in 1700-1027 BCE.

the Northern Dynasty style. The mature period they produced many stone carving. Sui Dynasty has

Chinese culture and art flourished in many ways during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Scholar-painters (Southern School), also known as the literati, thrived in many artistic aspects during this period, largely changing the creative world of imperial China. The medium of choice for these artists was a brush, monochromatic ink, and various scrolls. The intentions of the literati painters weren’t to illustrate environments realistically; instead they were more focused on producing art in ways to express their opinions and views. Some artwork was formed near nonrepresentational.

Paintings that were influenced in Korea was the production of genre production with entertaining portraits of life. Additionally, Buddhist paintings of the Koryo period, landscapes were first painted in the 18th century when China was losing control from Korea. Though it was still influenced by the Chinese, it pursued its own path. There were 2 different genre paintings developed, one was a representation of the customs and culture in Choson society (1392-1910). The other one developed with the intention to show the daily activities of some rural communities that was developed in the 17th century.

Paintings had little meaning compared to other arts such as sculpting and music. Artists turned to those arts to express themselves, and paintings rarely had meaning in them. China did not consider them very important compared to other civilizations.

A landscape painter “tended to be a recluse, an individualist, and a Daoist (Morton and Lewis 2005).” These artists thought of landscape painting as the “grandest and most satisfying way to represent nature as a whole, to feel a sense of communion with nature, and to know oneself to be part of an orderly cosmos (Morton and Lewis 2005).” Thus, one can see the implications of landscape painting lay not just in its beauty and simplicity, but also in its spiritual connection with Nature, and thus had wide appeal. The point of view in landscape painting was also of paramount importance. The Chinese artists understood that Western artists took in scenes from five or six feet from the ground. Chinese artists worked from a raised viewpoint, so that they are not bogged done by small details in the front and get a better sense of the whole scene (Morton and Lewis 2005). Every part of the image that is created has its own innate interest, and yet it all comes together and works well as a whole (Morton and Lewis 2005). It is clear that landscape painting was a cherished and important art form in Song Dynasty culture.

Kamāl al-Dīn Behzād (c.1450-c.1535), who served royal princes of Timurid (1370-1507) and Safavid (1501-1736) dynasties, is one of the famous painters in Islamic world. Historical records and paintings related to him are so numerous. From the beginning of 20th century, art historians challenged again and again to define the style of his paintings and to attribute the non-signed works to him. However, the characteristics thought as Bihzād style are vague, so the re-examination of his style is needed. In this essay, I would like to re-examine what is called “Bihzād style”, by comparing the Persian painting with Chinese painting.