Oriental Art
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is very unique and interesting. It is based on life all around them, nature.
In Hsuan-ho hua pu classifies paintings in ten groups:
„h Taoist and Buddhist (tao shih)
„h Human affairs (jen wu)
„h Places and other buildings (kung shih)
„h Foreign tribes (fan tsu)
„h Dragons and fishes (lun ....
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.... painting in subject matter, yet spiritually the two have little or nothing in common. In China especially, this trait long outlived the primitive stage of human culture completely sophisticated form of picture- making. As a result, the tradition of Sung Chinese flower-and-bird painting made itself felt though out Asia.
Among the Chinese themselves, flower-and-bird painting is a major form of pictorial expression, which for thousands of years has exercise their aesthetic imagination to exte ....
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