Arts

Chinese Paper Cuts

Chinese Paper Cuts also called Scissor-cuts; it is a kind of folk artwork with rich local flavor popularizing in numerous people. Chinese Paper cuts were come out during the period of Nanbeichao Dynasty.

Colorful paper cut by scissors is often used as decoration and forms various artistic styles because of different purposes, such as for window decoration, basket decoration, present decoration and designs. Among them paper-cut for window decoration is the most popular. So paper-cut is also called Window Grille. Basket decoration is hanging decoration for festivals. Present decoration is to add color for the present and exaggerate living atmosphere and encourage the people's emotions.

Paper-cut designs are to design the models for folk needlework. Most of them are red and some are colorful. Folk scissor-cut is gentle, lovely and vivid with bright color. Cut skills are powerful and smooth. The line is easy. Its subject often comes from the folk and is good decoration

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Opera Facial Made-up

Opera facial make-up originates from totem in ancient times, develops into facial paintings of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and eventually takes the shape of facial costume of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is a pattern of put-on facial make-up for opera actors and actresses in the stereotype roles of "painted face" and clown. It plays the artistic functions of implying commendatory and derogatory connotations and differentiating benevolence and malevolence, enabling the audience to get a glimpse of the inner world of actors and actresses through their symbolic facial make-up. In this sense, facial make-up has obtained the reputation as "painting of heart and soul".

Opera facial make-up utilizes the color of red, purple, black, white, blue, green, yellow, dark red, gray, golden and silver, with each color representing a unique stereotype character. In general, red symbolizes utter devotion and loyalty; purple embodies fortitude and resourcefulness; black manifests faithfulness and integrity; white implies craft; blue represents valor and vigor; green signifies justice and chivalry; yellow exemplifies cruelty. Dark red is reserved for loyal old generals while golden and silver are used for Buddha, gods, ghosts and demons. Opera facial make-up, as the product of fine artisanship, has become part of the masterpieces in the thousands years of Chinese culture and art.

Chinese Calligraphy

Birth, development, maturity and flourish of Chinese Calligraphy are always closely related to the change of character. For thousands of years' history of Chinese Calligraphy, inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells of the Shang Dynasty, big seal character, lesser seal character, ordered running script, official script, regular script, running script and grass script are all the creations breaking a new way in chorography. In addition, present style of Chinese Calligraphy is to shape rhythm image with lines. The lines are either strong or soft. The strokes are various. The horizontal and vertical strokes are bend or extensive.

The tip of writing is either dark or clear. Using brush can be slow or quick. Lifting and pressing brush can be both light and weight. The structure is either open or close. The posture is both motive and quiet. The orderly ways are both proportional and new. All the above skills can produce various rhythms. The lines of regular script can make people feel grant and steady. Seal character and official script are both simple and kind. The lines of running script and grass script are much changeable and have thousands of bearings and can show the line's expressive force of rich rhythms and tunes.

The art of Chinese Calligraphy has thousands of years' history up to now. Chinese history has pasted many dynasties. Each dynasty has given birth of many famous calligraphers. Every calligrapher had created a lot of excellent handwriting works in their whole lives. So such tremendous amount of famous calligraphers and excellent works are really culture treasure of our whole nation. The art of Chinese Calligraphy with such unique artistic style is also a brilliant peal in whole human's culture treasure.

Chinese Home Decor

Artistic Chinese Creations.com now offers an elegant assortment of Chinese home decor and gift items such as: table runners, table covers, dinner sets, wine bottle covers, embroidered coasters, tissue box covers, embroidered cushions and cushion covers, Chinese candles, Chinese candle holders, Chinese lanterns, Chinese stationary, Chinese pen containers, Chinese brocade notebooks, Chinese photo albums, Chinese photo frames, Chinese clocks, Chinese books, Chinese bookmarks, Chinese wind chimes, Chinese Refrigerator Magnets, and Chinese card holders. The above features beautiful Chinese designs. Excellent as gifts or other special occasions.

Chinese Snuff Bottles With Inside Painting

The snuff bottle painted on the inside is a later-emerging handicraft. If other sorts of snuff bottles were executed in arts and crafts techniques, the sole skill on inside painting was born especially for painting snuff bottles. Its outstanding contribution lies in: with innovations in tools and operations, the painters turned the art painted and written on sheets of paper into art painted on hard glass snuff bottle (including rock crystal), and moreover, painted reversely on the inside, of which the difficulty and intriguing are unimaginable. It is superb craftsmanship excelling nature. It is worth noting that the success and development of the snuff bottle painted on the inside depended on the high-transparency glass, especially the successful technique of chest-hollowing.

The date when the inside painted snuff bottle was first made still remains to be confirmed. But the Qianlong Theory and Guangxu Theory of the Qing dynasty were widely spread.

The Guangxu reign (1875-1908) saw a climax in the production of the inside painted snuff bottles. Famous painters coming forth in large numbers. The subject matters painted are wide-ranging. Each different in style, opening up a prospect of all flowers vying for beauty in full bloom. The master painters who exercised strong influence upon the art of the inside painting including Zhou Leyuan, Ma Shaoxuan, Ye Zhongsan, Ding Erzhong, Meng Zishou, Bi Rongjiu and others.

The inside-painted snuff bottle also had something to do with the Qing imperial court. The imperial court did collect several portraitures by renown painters, giving a proof to the fact that the inside painted snuff bottles found favor in the eyes of the royal family and were presented as tributes.

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