As the name suggests, its like I am watching the spring and listening to the wind. When observing this paining, it seems very calming and relaxed. If I heard the words “classic Chinese painting”, this is instantly the kind and style of painting I would think of. Aesthetically, I really enjoy this piece. ![]() It could be the case that the paper has faded and worn over the tested time of history, but I like to think that this was purposefully done as I truly believe that the paper brings elements of the painting that compliment the rest of it. I think that we could all agree that it just wouldn’t look right. Imagine this same painting completed on a white piece of paper or background. The paper style also adds great affect to this painting. This style of painting is very classic Chinese. The foreground, however, is flawless with detail. The effect seems to suggest there is fog in the background or that the background melds seamlessly into the paper. One of my favorite elements of this piece is the incorporation of the paper and the fading of the background into this paper. To generalize his artwork, they usually encompassed an expansive landscape accompanied by calligraphy somewhere on the painting in and ink and wash style. Although Tang Yin was a talented man, we will focus on the beauty of his artwork. Born in 1470, Tang Yin was a renowned Chinese scholar, painter, calligrapher, and poet of the Ming dynasty. This next piece is called Watching the Spring and Listening to the Wind by Tang Yin. ![]() Watching the Spring and Listening to the Wind by Tang Yin I’ll let you looks at the pictures and observe the greatness yourself. Overall, this style of architecture is so phenomenal that I could post my entire post about just this style of art. Not the only the details, but the symbolism as well make this work fascinating. Being half Chinese, I love this style of architecture. This is seen everywhere in Chinese architecture. If you notice, the complex itself is symmetric down the center. Another feature of the Forbidden City is bilateral symmetry. If you notice, below the main roof there is one some times two other tiers of roofing after that. One unique thing about this style of architecture is the tiered roof. Overall, this is probably one of the greatest non-Western pieces of all time. It is also phenomenal that this traditional architecture style is still used in modern day, although due to the growing economies and growing cities, demand for high speed construction and higher floor area ratio means that this style has declined in recent years. It has had strong influences in Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. It not only has had a lasting impact on today, but also at the time with neighboring cultures. ![]() When thinking of the architecture that came out of this era on this side of the world, this is the style seen and shown in history books and movies today. What makes this piece so great is that is exemplifies traditional Chinese palatial architecture. It consists of 980 surviving buildings that cover 180 acres. The Forbidden City is almost just that, a city. The Forbidden City, located in Beijing, was an imperial palace for many of the Ming dynasty emperors and forbidden to the general public, hence the name. It is sometimes regarded as the one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history.īuilt in 1406 to 1420, it is hard to know who the direct architect of the Forbidden City was. The Ming dynasty ruled eastern China for 276 years from 1368 to 1644. After all, the United States hadn’t been born yet and renaissances and exciting changes were taking place in Europe so it is easy to believe that this was the only significant civilization on the planet at the time. When we focus on Western civilization and art, it is hard to think there were other significant cultures out there other than ours.
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