By Yiwen Liu, CMA Curatorial Research Assistant As a series of prequels to the Harry Potter movies, a third movie in the world of wizardry was recently released in the Fantastic Beasts series. Despite the new movie’s mixed reviews, it still provides a delightful new variety of cute and imaginative […]
Chinese
Christie’s Hong Kong’s Chinese Paintings Department Presents – Rare and Exquisite Paintings from the Classical To Modern Age
This Could in Hong Kong, Christie’s is excited to offer you a range of gorgeous Chinese paintings at auction, like functions from the classical to the modern-day age. Washing Horses by Zhao Mengfu as catalogued in Shiqu Baoji (focused push release below), and Scholarly Collecting until Twilight by Xie Shichen will guide the Fantastic Chinese Classical Paintings and Calligraphy sale on 28 May well. Alongside two magnificent […]
Christie’s Hong Kong Chinese Paintings Department Presents Exemplary Works from The Classical Period
This spring, Christie’s is delighted to offer an fantastic assortment of coveted masterpieces in the Wonderful Chinese Classical Paintings And Calligraphy sale on 28 May perhaps. These masterworks characterize pivotal times in Chinese art background. The leading emphasize of the season is the magnificent Washing Horses by Zhao Mengfu as catalogued in Shiqu Baoji (Major). One of the […]
Rockefeller Family Donates Chinese Oil Painting to Pace University
Picture From still left, Tempo President Marvin Krislov, Anne Wakelee, senior director of enhancement at Speed, and Kimberly and Steven Rockefeller at the Tempo Art Gallery. PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. – Mr. and Mrs. Steven Rockefeller Jr., longtime residents of the Hudson Valley, philanthropists, and supporters of the arts, have donated a […]
Looking Close at the Fragile Beauty of Chinese Painting
It always feels like early autumn in the Chinese painting galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The lighting is warm but low; the décor, wheat-beige and nut-brown. Despite sparks of color, the ink-and-brush paintings are visually subdued; their images can be hard to read from even a short distance […]