Chinese art

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 140. Chapters: Chinese ceramics, Culture of the Song Dynasty, Cinema of Hong Kong, History of Eastern art, Arts of China, East Asian calligraphy, 798 Art Zone, Bixi, RMB City, Cloisonné, Chinese painting, Chinese animation, Ruyi, Lacquer, Centre of Chinese Culture and Arts, Chinese bronzes, Ifa gallery, Four Arts of the Chinese Scholar, Qingyang sachet, Taotie, Eight Immortals, Chinoiserie, Snuff bottle, Harvard Bixi, Manhua, Chinese knotting, Chinese jade, Ink and wash painting, Jean-Marc Decrop, Liuli Gongfang, Songzhuang, Ho Fan, Chinese Arts Centre, Photography in China, Hong Kong Comics, Jade burial suit, Lianhuanhua, Red Gate Gallery, Chinese embroidery, Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom, Chinese paper folding, Chinese paper cutting, Shishi, Hornbill ivory, Endless knot, Straw painting, Mogu, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Chinese scholar's rocks, Chinese character tattoo, Northern Landscape style, Glove puppetry, Chinese antique furniture, Chinese folk art, Man Luen Choon, Performance art in China, Caochangdi, Li Boqing, Kingfisher feather art: tian-tsui, Cynical realism, Four Masters of the Yuan Dynasty, Makyoh, Suzhou Creek Art District, Yuan Center, Six Masters of the early Qing period, Banhua, Four happiness boys, K'o-ssu, Confucian art, Four Wangs, Eight Treasures, An hua. Excerpt: Chinese ceramic ware shows a continuous development since the pre-dynastic periods, and is one of the most significant forms of Chinese art. China is richly endowed with the raw materials needed for making ceramics. The first types of ceramics were made during the Palaeolithic era. Chinese Ceramics range from construction materials such as bricks and tiles, to hand-built pottery vessels fired in bonfires or kilns, to the sophisticated Chinese porcelain wares made for the imperial court. China had a monopoly on porcelain production until relatively recently, and porcelain is also often called "china" in English. A qingbai porcelain vase, bowl, and model of a granary with transparent blue-toned glaze, from the period of the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD).Porcelain "it is a collective term comprising all ceramic ware that is white and translucent, no matter what ingredients are used to make it or to what use it is put." The Chinese tradition recognizes two primary categories of ceramics, high-fired and low-fired . The oldest Chinese dictionaries define porcelain as "fine, compact pottery" . Chinese ceramic wares can also classified as being either northern or southern. Present-day China comprises two separate and geologically different land masses, brought together by the action of continental drift and forming a junction that lies between the Yellow river and the Yangtze river. The contrasting geology of the north and south led to differences in the raw materials available for making ceramics. Chinese porcelain is mainly made by a combination of the following materials: A black pottery cooking cauldron from the Hemudu culture (c. 5000 - c. 3000 BC) In the context of Chinese ceramics the term porcelain lacks a universally accepted definition. This in turn has led to confusion about when the first Chinese porcelain was made. Claims have been made for the late Eastern Han period (100 to 200 AD), the Three Kingdoms period (220 to 280 AD), the Six Dynasties period (220 to 589