Elegant gathering brings artistic tradition to life
By: By Lin Qi
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Elegant gathering brings artistic tradition to life
Collaborative paintings on show at the China National Academy of Painting. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] BUZZ NOTE: This captain is identical to and applies to all images below.
The yaji , or "elegant gathering", was a tradition among intellectuals, artists and people of higher social class in ancient China. They would gather to share their thoughts, demonstrate individual artistic or cultural attainments, and collaborate on the creation of prose, poems, calligraphy, and paintings.
The spirit of this tradition has been brought back to life at A Shared Vision of Beauty , an ongoing exhibition at the museum of the China National Academy of Painting.
On display are collaborations between 30 artists working in the flower-and-bird, mountain-and-water and landscape traditions. They illustrate the artists' years of technique and experience and the spontaneity of brushwork emphasized in Chinese ink art.
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Alfred Hitchcock had nothing to do with that third image. These paintings, very typically in a Chinese style, are much bigger than I thought they would be.
Will post a link to this shortly.
Thank you.
They are very large and while large quite captivating.
Looking at them for a while I feel like I’m drawn into the paintings.
To me they are a blend of traditional and unusual.