Chinese Time-honored Celebrities and Famous Paintings Collection Edition, a stunning release. The awe-inspiring style of the masters spans generations. This collection is a complete set of the "Chinese Celebrities and Famous Paintings" series recommended by Professor Wang Caigui. It is also a full collection promoted for teaching by Professor Wang Caigui. Revered as high mountains and deeply respected across generations, this compilation gathers renowned works from master after master.
Publisher: Inner Mongolia People's Publishing House
Binding: Special Xuan paper box binding, thread-bound authentic preservation edition
Format: Ancient six-panel style, 16-panel format
Volumes: 5 volumes
Original price for the entire set: 1990 yuan
Current special order price: 1850 yuan
Each volume: 398 yuan
Ordering method: Orders are processed upon receipt of payment. Nationwide, all cities adopt a cash-on-delivery payment method (county area customers click here to check if the express company has local fast delivery services available).
Order website: Global Read Scripture Textbook Network
Order hotline: 400-6610-698
Chinese painting art, in its long development process, has created three famous painting genres known both inside and outside China: landscape, figure, and flower-and-bird paintings. Each genre has its independent historical evolution, painting styles, schools, and masterpieces. To enable a systematic and comprehensive understanding of the artistic achievements within each of these major painting genres among painting enthusiasts and art professionals, our publishing house specially invited experts in Chinese art history, art critics, and researchers of the three major painting genres. From the vast ocean of Chinese art works, they carefully selected the most famous, representative works that have had the deepest influence on the development of subsequent artistic creations. Accompanying these works are concise introductions and analyses that highlight their essence. Printed using the finest Luowen Xuan paper favored during the Qing dynasty and printed according to traditional Ming dynasty woodblock water printing techniques, this collection represents the highest quality art books currently available in the calligraphy and painting world, earning widespread praise from domestic and international art circles.
Starting from the pre-Qin and Han dynasties and ending with the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, it spans the entire history of Chinese art. Featuring hundreds of masters and thousands of famous works, it encompasses all painting styles and schools of ancient Chinese painting. Top-tier collections from over a hundred domestic and international art galleries, museums, and private collectors.
Volume One: "Time-Honored Chinese Figure Painting"
Figure painting is one of the three main categories of traditional Chinese painting and is the earliest category to emerge. It is a symbol of the independence and maturity of Chinese painting art. Respected as the "Sage of Painting," Wu Daozi was a master of figure painting. The content of figure paintings is diverse, with themes ranging from historical paintings, genre paintings, portraits, to images of court ladies. Techniques include meticulous brushwork with color, white-line drawing, simplified brushwork, splashed ink, and meticulous brushwork. Masters such as Gu Kaizhi, Zhang Sengyou, Yan Liben, Wu Daozi, Li Gonglin, Tang Yin, Qiu Ying, and Chen Hongshou have left behind masterpieces that excel in various ways and stand unparalleled through the ages. These works reflect the social appearances and customs of different periods beyond their unique artistic value, offering unparalleled historical and sociological document value compared to other painting genres.
Volume Two: "Time-Honored Chinese Calligraphy"
Calligraphy true traces of famous masters throughout history. The pinnacle of Chinese calligraphy art. More than three hundred calligraphy masters, over five hundred timeless masterpieces. Various styles including regular script, cursive script, seal script, and clerical script are fully represented. Specific evaluations provided by calligraphy experts. Special Xuan paper thread-bound, 16-panel, 5-volume set with color printing.
Volume Three: "Time-Honored Chinese Flower-and-Bird Painting"
Flower-and-bird painting is one of the three main categories of ancient Chinese painting most adept at "expressing aspirations through objects" and conveying emotions through borrowed objects. Its content includes not only flowers, birds, but also livestock, fish, algae, trees, bamboo rocks, and even fruits and vegetables. Styles range from meticulously detailed gongbi flower-and-bird paintings to lively and free xieyi flower-and-bird paintings. Themes like plum blossoms, orchids, bamboo, and chrysanthemums, known as the Four Gentlemen, are widely loved by scholars and common people alike. From Emperor Huizong Zhao Ji to the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou," Chinese flower-and-bird painting boasts the richest variety of painters, schools, and styles, as well as the most complex and varied techniques, earning the widest international acclaim for traditional Chinese painting and being highly favored by domestic and international art galleries, museums, various collecting institutions, and private collectors.
Volume Four: "Time-Honored Chinese Landscape Painting"
Landscape painting is the category of ancient Chinese painting that best represents Chinese philosophical thought and Chinese painting aesthetics. In the more than two thousand years of development from the Wei-Jin-Nanbei dynasties to the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, there emerged various painting methods such as blue-green landscapes, ink-wash landscapes, and scholar-small-scene paintings. Renowned masters appeared generation after generation, including Zhan Ziqian from the Sui dynasty, Li Sixun from the Tang dynasty, Jing Hao, Guan Tong, Dong Yuan, Ju Ran from the Five Dynasties, Li Cheng, Fan Kuan from the Northern Song dynasty, Li Tang, Liu Songnian, Ma Yuan, Xia Gui from the Southern Song dynasty, Huang Gongwang, Wu Zhen, Ni Zan, Wang Meng from the Yuan dynasty, Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, Tang Yin, Qiu Ying from the Ming dynasty, and Dong Qichang from the Qing dynasty. They created countless masterpieces that had an extremely profound impact on the painting world of later generations.
Volume Five: "Time-Honored Chinese Famous Paintings"
Chinese painting art, in its long development process, formed three internationally renowned painting genres: landscape, figure, and flower-and-bird paintings. Each has its own independent historical evolution, painting styles, schools, and masterpieces. To enable painting enthusiasts and art professionals to systematically and comprehensively understand the artistic achievements within each of these major painting genres, our publishing house specially invited experts in Chinese art history, art critics, and researchers of the three major painting genres. From the vast ocean of Chinese art works, they carefully selected the most famous, representative works that have had the deepest influence on the development of subsequent artistic creations. Accompanying these works are concise introductions and analyses that highlight their essence. Printed using the finest Luowen Xuan paper favored during the Qing dynasty and printed according to traditional Ming dynasty woodblock water printing techniques, this collection represents the highest quality art books currently available in the calligraphy and painting world, earning widespread praise from domestic and international art circles.
Starting from the pre-Qin and Han dynasties and ending with the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, it spans the entire history of Chinese art. Featuring hundreds of masters and thousands of famous works, it encompasses all painting styles and schools of ancient Chinese painting. Top-tier collections from over a hundred domestic and international art galleries, museums, and private collectors.
This product is a complete set of the "Chinese Celebrities and Famous Paintings" series recommended by Professor Wang Caigui. Revered as high mountains and deeply respected across generations, this compilation gathers renowned works from master after master.
Publisher: Inner Mongolia People's Publishing House
Binding: Special Xuan paper box binding, thread-bound authentic preservation edition
Format: Ancient six-panel style, 16-panel format
Volumes: 5 volumes
Original price for the entire set: 1990 yuan
Current special order price: 1850 yuan
Each volume: 398 yuan
Ordering method: Orders are processed upon receipt of payment. Nationwide, all cities adopt a cash-on-delivery payment method (county area customers click here to check if the express company has local fast delivery services available).
Order website: Global Read Scripture Textbook Network
Order hotline: 400-6610-698