East Asian Cultural Exchange in Tiger and Dragon Paintings
Walking tigers and dragons depicted with water were popular visual compositions across East Asia, and for this reason, the specific origins of the Met’s paintings remain an enigma. The visual pairing of tigers and dragons has a long history in
Tiger-themed exhibitions in Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing
The tiger symbolises bravery and power in Chinese culture. Tigers have been a popular theme in Chinese paintings. On the 25th of January the tiger-themed exhibition was held at China's National Museum, Beijing.Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum inaugurated an exhibit
Yoshitomo Nara’s spiritual harbor displayed in Nanjing
The two of Yoshitomo Nara's iconic installations, "Not Everything But/Green House" and "Not Everything But/Orange House", are on long-term display at Deji Art Museum in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.The two works each feature a playhouse with a cone-shaped roof in green
The Armenian merchant through the eyes of the Baroque era artists and patrons
The Rijksmuseum in Netherlands houses an intriguing Baroque-period figurine of an Armenian merchant with the monkey (Armeense koopman met aap, anoniem, ca. 1700 - ca. 1725). The personage of Armenian identity, draped in Oriental costume, wearing a turban and seated
The Daughter of Armenia and her story
The Art Institute of Chicago houses an oil painting (dated: 1912) by Ralph Elmer Clarkson (American, 1861–1942), entitled "Nouvart Dzeron, A Daughter of Armenia".A student of the artist, Nouvart Dzeron posed for him in Armenian traditional garments (taraz) supplied for
The beauty of rural Armenia and Armenian people mirrored in Nana Gyulikekhvyan’s art
Member of the USSR Union of Artists, Honored artist of Armenian SSR, Nana Gyulikekhvyan was born in Gyumri/Leninakan. She studied at the Yerevan Art College (1942-1947) and the Art and Theater Institute (1948-1953), workshops of M.A. Aslamazyan and B.A. Kolozyan.
The female master of the Armenian blue-and-white porcelain
A beloved and prolific Armenian ceramic painter, Marie Balian (1925-2017) studied at the Beaux Arts of Lyon, where her family had settled. Her family hailed from Kütahya (Kutahya), which is historically known for its Armenian ceramic industry, and were forced
Ancient Chinese bronzeware exhibited in Hunan
Bronzeware is a significant carrier of Chinese culture. To trace its development, the Hunan Museum is exhibiting bronze artworks assembled from Chinese museums and presented in four pavilions.Among the intriguing exhibited artefacts are the bronze gui tureen with horse design
Works by Armenian artists exhibited in Wuhan, China
“Armenian- Chinese partnership center” NGO reports that contemporary works by various Armenian artists are being exhibited in Wuhan city, Hubei Province, the People’s Republic of China. The exhibition entitled “The Roots of the Sun” has opened its doors to the
Tianjin Binhai Library- one of the gems of Chinese futuristic design
The Tianjin Binhai Library looks like a book lovers’ heaven. Upon entering, visitors are welcomed into an atrium that ebbs and flows in what appears to be floor-to-ceiling books, with a luminous spherical auditorium called “the eye” at its core.While
