There is a kind of beauty called China
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Chinese, it is time to take a general education class in Chinese art.
It just so happens that he has made a book of decades of coaching experience and takes you to Tsinghua's professional and systematic art class.
For many Chinese people who wander the beauty of culture and art students, Yang Qi is an inextricable name. He is the author of many art textbooks and a former professor of art history at the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University. He has studied aesthetics and art for nearly 50 years, and has published many works such as "Introduction to Art Studies", "Appreciation of Fine Arts", "Ten Lectures on Dunhuang Art Introduction", etc. It is no exaggeration to say that he is a well-deserved "communicator of Chinese art and Oriental aesthetics".
In 2022, "Five Thousand Years of Chinese Aesthetics", Professor Yang Qi's new masterpiece, a book that reads through China's 5,000 years of beauty, reactivates the aesthetic genes and aesthetic self-confidence of your bones.
the aesthetic language of Chinese
Giveaway Display:
On the front is a poster of a thousand miles of rivers and mountains, and on the back is a guide to the history of Chinese art, selecting especially representative works from each period, and a picture grasps the beauty of China for 5,000 years. There are 40% off, the size is 18cm*52cm.
Take a general education class in Chinese art,
24 dynasties, 50 masters, 300 masterpieces, 5,000 years of history.
For many non-art professionals, this book is an excellent entry version. Many times, when readers want to understand the history of Chinese art, they are often trapped in scattered concepts: gongbi, ink, literati, court, flowers and birds, green and green... It's easy to get lost in the vast doctrine of Chinese art history. Professor Yang Qi, through decades of Tsinghua teaching practice, has explored a set of systematic and efficient teaching methods, in this book, he not only cites the scriptures, hooks and sinks the xuan essentials, but also supplements it with wild anecdote history, and uses vivid and dexterous language to supplement the reader with a systematic general knowledge lesson in Chinese art history.
This time, he took the dynasty as the axis and the cultural relics as the entry point, sorted out the whole context of the development of art, and toured the whole picture of Chinese art history in three dimensions. 24 dynasties, 50 masters, 300 classic masterpieces, take you on a 5,000-year cultural and artistic journey, but also master the basic concepts of oriental aesthetics, cultivate the aesthetic methodology of traditional culture.
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Chinese aesthetics, conceived during the Xia Shang Zhou, were opened by the sound of bronze ceremonial music.
Pass by the Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses, han dynasty paintings, and stroll to the epoch-making Wei and Jin dynasties. Landscape painting was founded, Buddhist art was introduced, painting changed from slight to refined, and entered the era of "writing gods in form". Gu Kaizhi's "Luoshen Futu" tells the sincere and poignant love story of Cao Zhi and Luoshen.
The peak of the Tang Dynasty, the art is brilliant and splendid, and the beauty is breathtaking. Look at Wu Daozi's "Eighty-Seven Immortal Scrolls", sweep with a pen, like a whirlwind; see Dunhuang flying in the sky, the clothes are fluttering, elegant and beautiful; look at the court figure paintings, Tang Dynasty ladies pink makeup jade, rich and beautiful...
Then came the golden age of art, the Song Dynasty. Landscape paintings, flower and bird paintings, and custom paintings have blossomed in an all-round way, such as "Qingming River Map", "Thousand Mile River and Mountain Map", "Jin Wen Gong Restoration Map"... Long scrolls record the peak of Chinese painting.
Then the ming dynasty literati changed, the collision of Chinese and Western art in the Qing Dynasty, until the modern era ushered in the rebirth of traditional painting...
A book that clearly understands the aesthetic masters of the past and the present; a book that brings home the classic works of the world's museums; a book that is a comprehensive and systematic aesthetics course. Because I love this country, I am so intoxicated by her aesthetic journey, how can I not read it carefully?
Talk about the aesthetic language of Chinese art,
Pen and ink, blank space, perception, unity of nature and man, vivid rhyme.
In the lecture hall of Tsinghua University, Professor Yang Qi has been standing for decades, and can be described as a senior aesthetic interpreter. He can find a balance between theory and practice, can talk about the past of aesthetics, and has always been at the forefront of oriental aesthetics. How wonderful is the ancient Chinese aesthetic? Where is China's aesthetic discourse power? The aesthetic awakening of a nation has always begun from knowing how to appreciate traditional art. His text can not only easily open up the reader's knowledge structure, but also allow readers to easily obtain the aesthetic language of Chinese art.
Wang Wei's aesthetic language is "there are paintings in poetry, and there are poems in paintings".
In his landscape paintings, there are no mountains and ravines, rapids and shoals, just horizontal mountain shows, water crossing fishing villages. It's like a person sitting quietly on the shore, looking at the faint distant mountains, quietly near the water, no trouble, no anger, no sorrow. Just like his poem: "The lonely smoke under the mountain is far away, and the plateau is a single tree in the sky".
Wang Wei 《Jiang Gan Xue Ji Tu》
The aesthetic language of the Bada Shan people is "to look at the heart with paintings, and the atmosphere is vivid".
Gently stretching orchids, tender and full buds, thick flowers, fish wandering in the water, birds that are flying or still... There are only a few strokes, and there are many blanks, but there is a mellow and ethereal mood, calm and relaxed.
Bada Shanren "Lotus Bird"
Gu Kaizhi, Yan Liben, Zhou Fang, Li Sixun, Gu Hongzhong, Dong Yuan, Huang Gongwang, Zhang Zeduan, Ni Zhan, Tang Bohu, Xu Beihong, Qi Baishi... They have their own characteristics, but they are spread and developed, and together they shape an aesthetic language that belongs exclusively to the East.
In Western aesthetics, precision, proportion and rhythm are important. In the Chinese aesthetic world, mysteriousness, blank space, artistic conception, vivid charm, and the unity of heaven and man are the ultimate destination of beauty. This set of aesthetic language, which cannot be measured by scale and has no precise proportions, is the spiritual cultivation and philosophical pursuit of the ancients.
Once we understand it, we can return to the spiritual homeland of Chinese. Read a poem, look at an ancient painting, visit a museum, walk into a garden... We learned to truly appreciate.
Fine binding, worth collecting the most beautiful reading book.
In addition to the richness of the content, it is also an aesthetic art book worth cherishing.
The cover paper is transparent and thin, showing a graceful beauty. Double-sided printing, front and back patterns overlap. The Chinese red inner seal shows the beauty of classical. Minimalist silhouettes that call for a dialogue that travels through time and space.
The cover is expanded, and the poster is on the back.
The inner page is made of ivory white, quality paper, restoring the classical Chinese rhyme.
In terms of typography, it is also practical and aesthetic.
For example, to help you understand the comparison, this book compares the size of classic paintings, and the size and style are clear at a glance.
At the same time, long scrolls and subtle details complement each other, you can get a glimpse of the whole picture, you can also pick up the "magnifying glass" to see the picture. Coupled with Professor Yang Qi's explanation, you will be completely immersed in the colors, lines, composition and meaning of Chinese painting.
Read the history of Chinese art
Read five thousand years of aesthetic language
Reawaken the aesthetic beliefs engraved in the genes
Proud of yesterday's work for Chinese art
I am also full of confidence in the future of Chinese art
This is our artistic self-confidence, our cultural self-confidence