Eventually ink cakes and ink sticks themselves became a decorative art form, and many well-known artists created designs and patterns for their molds. The invention of paper is widely appreciated as ...

The yaji, or "elegant gathering", was a tradition among intellectuals, artists and people of higher social class in ancient ...

Born on July 19, 1895 in Yixing, China, Xu began to study ink painting when he was just six years old, and went on to study the École National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris as a young man. The ...

The exhibition As Thriving as Fruits now running at the China National Academy of Painting in Beijing displays some 200 ink paintings with a pomegranate theme by artists across the country.

Blanketed in fresh snow the layered terraced fields in Shexian County north China Hebei Province is transformed into a ...

China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, where she tracked down remaining family and friends, as well as art scholars, as she pieced the Chang story together. Of Color and Ink takes its audience on a ...