Art of Ancient China
Traditional Chinese painting essentially differs from the western. Under the form it is close to the European impressionism - with that only a difference that existed many centuries prior to occurrence of the last. The picture is other world where the grass can be black, and persons of people - red. But all together, in a uniform context looks organically, the artist sees harmonious merge human and natural. The Chinese painting moves from difficult to the simple. If fish the pure space around designates water is drawn, at mountain drawing the pure space can turn to a cloud. Traditional painting aspires to a monochrome, one-color cloth, believing, in the spirit of Taoist representations that "five colors blind the person". Means that abundance of external beauty can distract from beauty internal, original. Usually pictures are written as though on one breath, without coming off. More often people on neskolku do not depart days from a cloth. And only having finished a picture as a whole, the artist can return to it later and specify details. In the Chinese pictures, as a rule, there are hieroglyphs. This name of a picture, a name of the author and the personal press of the artist. Without the personal press the picture is considered not finished. Very often the picture is decorated by verses from the traditional Chinese poetry, approaching on mood or on thought, and also philosophical sayings.
The history of the Chinese culture covers long 5000 years. The period. Historical development of the Far East and civilizations of China was created many by significant subjects. In China have created the first celestial maps and a lunar calendar, the compass, a seismograph, a paper, ink, technics of a varnish, silk, porcelain is invented.
