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	Chinese paper art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In a culture that invented paper back in the 1st century AD (Cai Lun, during the Han Dynasty), Chinese paper arts have existed for thousands of years, spanning from painted or pattern cut paper fans, lanterns, to decorative designs and structures accomplished by folding and/or cutting.
		Chinese papercutting is a unique artform, since paper was invented in China and has existed there for thousands of years.
		Knife cuttings are fashioned by putting several layers of paper on a relatively soft foundation consisting of a mixture of tallow and ashes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_paper_art (473 words)

	Chinese art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chinese art is art, whether modern or ancient, that originated in or is practiced in China or by Chinese artists or performers.
		Shang bronzes became appreciated as works of art from the Song Dynasty, when they were collected and prized not only for their shape and design but also for the various green, blue green, and even reddish patinas created by chemical action as they lay buried in the ground.
		Chinese folk arts - Chinese folk arts include puppetry and quyi, which consists of various kinds of storytelling and comic monologues and dialogues, often to the accompaniment of clappers, drums, or stringed instruments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_art (5575 words)

	Chinese art - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The study of early Chinese bronze casting is a specialised field of art history.
		In ancient Imperial China, painting and calligraphy were the most highly appreciated arts in court circles and were produced almost exclusively by amateurs, aristocrats and scholar-officials who alone had the leisure to perfect the technique and sensibility necessary for great brushwork.
		Chinese opera - Traditional drama grew out of the zaju (variety plays) of the Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) and continues to exist in many (368?) different forms, the best known of which is Beijing opera.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Chinese_art (5486 words)

	Chinese papercuts, with butterfly papercuts pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As paper was highly precious in the early days, the art of paper cutting first became popular in the royal palaces and houses of nobility as a favorite pastime among court ladies.
		However, the art of paper cutting was on the verge of dying out during the past century as old China experienced successive years of the disaster of war brought on by domestic turmoil and foreign invasion.
		Third, she has hopes that the art of paper cutting may blend the romantic charm of traditional Chinese painting, the fineness of embroidery, and the form in Western sculpture in order to create a realistic sense of three-dimensional imagery and revitalizing and animating the art form.
	www.chinavoc.com /arts/folk/papercut.htm (851 words)

	The Epoch Times \| The Chinese Art of Paper Cutting
		Paper cutting is one of the most popular traditional decorative arts in China, and an expression of people’s desire for beauty.
		The earliest discovery of paper cutting was found in tombs in the Nan Bei Dynasty (420-589 A.D.), in the form of plants and animals.
		Most paper cuttings do not follow the exact proportions of the object or figure depicted, but are more likely to be created based on the artist’s perception of how the shape should be portrayed.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/4-5-21/21392.html (610 words)

	Chinese Folk Art - Traditional Chinese Art, Chinese Folk Crafts, Chinese Arts & Crafts
		Chinese folk art is an important part of the country's extremely rich cultural and art heritage.
		Chinese folk art has won recognition and praise from experts both at home and abroad for its great variety, sincere rural content, rich flavor of life, distinctive local style, and its artistic approaches of romanticism.
		As a form of the traditional Chinese art, folk art is an intermixture of the aesthetic psychology of society and the aesthetic psychology of the artists, which externalizes itself through palpable media.
	www.artisticchinesecreations.com /folkart.html (734 words)

	ArtLex on Paper
		Fine arts papers are made of pulped linen and cotton rags; while lower quality, impermanent papers, such as newsprint, construction paper, coated papers, and butcher paper, are made of wood pulp or a combination of wood pulp and cotton rag.
		Kraft paper, made chemically with sulfate, is used for bags and wrapping papers because of its strength.
		By the fifteenth century in Europe, paper mills were widely established, and paper was often used as a support for works of art, as well as for the books printed with the just-invented movable-type, and for the prints being made by the new
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/p/paper.html (369 words)

	China: Dim Sum: Folk Art Paper Cuts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The folk art of Chinese paper cuts is an ancient art thought to have begun around the time of the invention of paper, around 206 B.C. It is believed that paper cutting as an art was popular among the ladies of the Chinese royal court.
		During the 1980's, interest in the art of paper cutting began to be revived.
		Chinese paper cuts range from clipping complicated patterns using a tiny pair of scissors to making cutouts into window decorations, stencils and embroidery patterns.
	www.newton.mec.edu /Angier/DimSum/china__dim_sum__folk_art_p.html (202 words)

	ipedia.com: Chinese paper art Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In a culture that invented paper back in the 1st century AD (Cai Lun, during the Han Dynasty), Chinese paper arts have existed for thousands of years, spanning from painted or pattern cut paper fanss, lanterns, to decorative designs and structures accomplished by folding and/or cutting.
		Paper cutting art China papercutting is a unique art, which may benefit from the fact that paper is invented by Chinese and dates back to ancient China.
		The people cut animals, flowers and figures in the paper with a pair of scissors or a knife mainly to decorate their doors and windows.Papercutting is also called window flower or cutting picture.
	www.ipedia.com /chinese_paper_art.html (549 words)

	Chinese Cultural Studies: Chinese Arts: Brief Guide
		Chinese poets and painters often have sought inspiration by withdrawing to isolated, mountainous areas, and these landscapes have become conventional themes of Chinese art.
		The art of Japan was brought into prominence in the mid-19th century in Paris by the Goncourt brothers, and it was Auguste Rodin who first gave public recognition to the sculpture of India.
		Chinese furniture was mainly of two types: plain hardwood pieces and lacquered wood pieces either inlaid with mother-of-pearl or elaborately carved.
	acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu /~phalsall/texts/chinarts.html (2594 words)

	Chinese Paper Arts
		China, where paper was invented in the 1st century AD, (Han Dynasty) has a long history of paper arts and crafts.
		A second part focuses on Chinese paper cutting, especially the intricate cutting of the brilliantly colored figures in the Wei Xian county style.The third button takes you to some examples of modern money folds as practiced in the West, and links to other paper art resources.
		The refugeeb.gif file is in Chinese and uses the traditional characters used on the mainland.
	www.wgn.net /~nienhuis/chinese.html (894 words)

	Chinese paper art -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Common designs are animals, flowers and figures cut with [scissors]] or a (Edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle) knife, mainly made to decorate doors and windows.
		It was most popular throughout the (The last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries; during the Qing dynasty China was ruled by the Manchu) Qing Dynasty during which many skills developed, including drafting and the use of smoked paper.
		Professional papercutting artists are, on the other hand, usually male and have guaranteed incomes and work together in workshops.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chinese_paper_art.htm (492 words)

	Chinese Rice Paper
		Hand made from rice straw, this paper is treated with thin rice gruel or soya bean milk diluted with great deal of water so that it remains absorbent but not as diffusive as a more absorbent paper.
		Gaoli paper is a semi-absorbent hand-made paper, with a smooth glossy surface.
		The paper is absorbent and it is great for both traditional and contemporary oriental brush painting as well as Western art works.
	ewiart.tripod.com /id11.html (406 words)

	Chinese Art Accessories
		Chinese color is permanent and keeps its color brilliance forever.
		Made of Chinese mugwort, castor oil, and cinnabar, it has been used on art works for more than thousand years.
		Animals are used on seals because the Chinese believe that the animal that rules the year of one's birth has significant influence over one's life; it is "the animal that hides in the heart." 12 Chinese zodiac animals are rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig.
	ewiart.tripod.com /id12.html (407 words)

	Chinese Paper Art
		It is commonly seen that a layer of white leather paper is pasted on the vertical squares, rectangular squares or geometrically patterned squares.
		Tortoise-patterned paper cuts symbolic of longevity are commonly seen in the countryside of Fujian Province.
		Served as the base pattern for shoe embroidery, it is cut into a bundle of flowers or a shape of crescent moon, which are embroidered on the head of shoe or matched to the size of the shoe vamp and along the two ends.
	www.hisnibs.com /paper_art.htm (1447 words)

	Chinese Art
		Jing Ju (Beijing Opera) is a traditional performing art of China, consisting of art forms of music, singing, dancing, pantomime, wushu (kungfu), acrobat, painting, costume, and etc. Like Chinese paintings, its beauty lies between realism and imagination and the engagement of the audience.
		Chinese calligraphy is a form of art as well as a physical and mental exercise, the practice of which is believed to have a healing effect.
		It is to be noted that classical Chinese paintings consist of the image itself and calligraphy in the form of a poem descibing it.
	www.wku.edu /~yuanh/China/art.html (484 words)

	Ancient Chinese Art Inventions and More Art Categories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ancient Chinese Art Inventions - Custer -- there was a time when custer high school coach terry long wanted to keep the wildcats shot put and discus prowess his best-kept secret.
		The singer art garfunkel, who pleaded guilty last year to pot possession in upstate new york, has again been charged after a marijuana cigarette was found in the ashtray of his car, state police said.
		Ancient Chinese Art Inventions - Research and markets (http: www.researchandmarkets.com reports c23097) has announced the addition of middleware for communications to their offering a state-of-the-art guide to middleware technologies, and their pivotal role in communications networks.
	art-4.627arts.com /index_Ancient-Chinese-Art-Inventions.html (593 words)

	Chinese Art Topic Center - Chinese Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chinese martial arts Chinese martial arts, often abbreviated as CMA, refers to the enormous variety of martial art styles nativ...
		Chinese paper folding Paper folding is an art known, in some form, in most societies that use paper.
		Chinese paper art Image:Chinese paper art Stock.xchng.jpgthumb300pxChinese paper art In a culture that invented paper back in the 1st century AD (Cai...
	www.famouschinese.com /topic/Chinese_Art (353 words)

	Children Chinese Paper Art - and more (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		but the exhibition showcasing the space art of paradise valley resident robert mccall is sure to enchant mom and dad, too.Business - now defunct - that specialized in safe storage of art and other valuables, the fbi and u.s.
		Children Chinese Paper Art - Nearing 80, john berger, a british resident of france, is a towering writer though little known on these shores.
		he is an art critic, painter, essayist and novelist whose vision and sense for the details that compose a life are profound.
	www.art617.com /Children-Chinese-Paper-Art.html (408 words)

	Chinese Art and Folk Art
		Chinese printing method Prints were being made in China from blocks of wood long before anything like that was done in Japan.
		An example of the former might be a paper cut of a pomegranate blossom attached to the marriage bed; an example of the latter might be a paper cut of a tiger on the door of the room where a mother has just given birth to a son--the tiger was supposed to scare away evil."
		Chinese calligraphy began with a simplified seal script, known as "chancery script," in which the width of the strokes varies and the edges and ends are sharp.
	www.princetonol.com /groups/iad/lessons/middle/china.htm (1277 words)

	Rice Paper for Oriental Brush painters, Sumi-e, artists, calligraphers and Crafters
		Xuan Paper from Anhui, Jing County, is the fourth treasure of the Chinese study.
		This is because the minerals in the water of the Jing County springs and the climate in Jing county for growing the special tree fiber was vital for the quality of the absorbency of the paper.
		But the main feature of xuan paper is it's ability to last for thousands of years, while calligraphy and painting paper is made to imitate the functionality of xuan paper, thus provide an economical alternative for artists to learn how to use xuan paper.
	www.acornplanet.com (1990 words)

	Chinese Art - Handicrafts: Paper objects (www.chinaknowledge.org)
		The invention of paper to write on was done much earlier in China than in Europe.
		Paper was used to write on, to paint on and to fold it to make things of a new shape.
		One kind of paper art is the kite, that was only copied by Europeans in the 18th century.
	www.chinaknowledge.de /Art/Paper/paper.html (271 words)

	Bambooweb: Chinese art
		Asoka’s reign), and through to the 8th century it became very active and creative in the development of Buddhist art, particularly in the area of statuary.
		tonal patterns had been developed, which were intended to ensure a balance between the four tones of classical Chinese in each couplet: the level tone, and the three deflected tones (rising, falling and entering).
		Beijing opera, which assumed its present form in the mid-19th century and was extremely popular in the Qing dynasty (1644-1911).
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/C/h/Chinese_art.html (5304 words)

	CMA Asian Odyssey : The Fine Art of Paper-Cutting
		An ancient Chinese folk art is the cutting of thin sheets of solid-color paper by hand into intricate shapes.
		In Chinese these paper-cuts are also known as "window flowers" and are hung on windows, or they might be pasted directly onto walls or doors, or attached to numerous smaller objects, where they served as ornaments or good luck charms.
		Students will learn to appreciate the art of Chinese paper-cutting by creating their own paper-cuts in shapes that represent an aspect of Chinese culture that appeals to them.
	www.clemusart.com /educef/asianodyssey/html/MarPapMS.html (187 words)

	Paper Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty and those to follow safe guarded this technological event for nearly 500 years.
		Handmade paper is produced mainly by recycling waste agro raw materials such as cotton rags, fabric remnants and small quantities of waste paper.
		Our handmade paper doesn't turn brittle due to aging so any piece such as a scrapbook, anniversary book, baby book or wedding album become heritage treasures.
	www.papergardenart.com /AboutUs.html (215 words)

	ArtLex on Chinese art
		Making generalizations about the visual culture of any group of people is a crude endeavor, especially with a culture as diverse as China's.
		The emblems reserved for the emperor's ceremonial robes were the twelve imperial symbols seen on this garment: sun, moon, constellation, mountain, pair of dragons, bird, cups, water weed, millet, fire, ax, and the symmetrical "fu" symbol.
		Also see apsara, archaeology, blanc de Chine, bonsai, Buddhist art, feng shui, Japanese art, and suiseki.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/c/chinese.html (501 words)

	Chinese paper-cuts of the 108 heroes of the classic, Outlaws of the marsh
		Features, costumes, weapons, here are all the details that appear under th scissors and blades of artists to create this exceptional paper lace.
		That is Chinese art of paper-cutting, that is skill of Chinese handicrafters...
		Usually, Chinese paper-cuts which are signs of feast, represent lucky charms or everyday life.
	www.geocities.com /nguyenvfr/English/papiersx.html (127 words)

	Oriental Art - Art of Asia - China - Japan
		Imperial China: The Art of the Horse The first exhibition ever to explore the role of the horse in more than 3,000 years of Chinese history and culture.
		The on-line journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia.
		Presented is traditional and modern Asian art that captures the spirit, cultural complexity and charm of Asia.
	www.princetonol.com /groups/iad/lessons/middle/oriental.htm (2071 words)

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