The 53-year-old folk artist from Zhengzhou quit his job and concentrated on gourd art creation. From painting on gourd, to bas-relief, high relief, hollowed-out carving, and colored drawing ...

For nearly three decades, Ma Jianghong has carved centuries-old frescoes and thangka art on gourds. The Beijing-based artist, who hails from Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region ...

But a little imagination can transform the humble gourd into an instrument, a work of fine art or a toy race car. “They’re just such unusual shapes. Even the natural color of the gourd ...

That gourd will sell for around $800. The Canto sisters — Katya, 29, and Blanca, 24 — are experts in the folk art of decorating gourds. Their father taught them when they were growing up in ...

Some art discoveries enrich and expand the work ... what makes these marbles exciting is that they are among the earliest Christian statuary known. Their subjects are two favorite Biblical figures ...