Chinese Painting Style: Media, Methods, and Principles of Form

Silbergeld, Jerome

ISBN 10: 0295959215 / ISBN 13: 9780295959214

Published by University of Washington Press, 1982

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chinese Painting Style: Media, Methods, and Principles of Form
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0295959215
• ISBN 13: 9780295959214
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Westerners seeking to appreciate and understand Chinese art have long felt the need of a fundamental book that explains both the technical means used by Chinese artists and the traditional stylistic modes of artistic expression. In Chinese Painting Style Jerome Silbergeld addresses this need, beginning with a discussion of basic materials and methods and continuing with in-depth studies of the complex paintings created by these methods. No other work so thoroughly or systematically describes the Chinese artistic processes, ranging from the distinctively Chinese manner of handling the brush to the blending of brushlines, wash, color, and texture into a painted composition. The final chapters examine Chinese composition in terms of naturalistic representation and of abstract expression.

Throughout the book, artistic problems are set against a background of Chinese history, ideas, and geography. The illustrations include drawings that reveal the principles of Chinese brushwork, together with a broad range of Chinese paintings and calligraphy. A unique feature is the precise coding of text and illustrations, by which the reader is invited to inspect the specific turn of the brush or adjustment of composition by which the artist achieves his effects.

Chinese Painting Style provides a penetrating look into the formal basis of this age-old art, and one that will be useful and engaging both to the general reader and to the serious student.