China's top political advisor visits demonstrate of Chinese painting master's works

China's top political consultant Jia Qinglin visited a show of paintings by Li Keran (1907-1989), one of the best-known Chinese artists.

Jia, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and also a part of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau, was accompanied by Politburo affiliate and Beijing's Party chief Liu Qi and CPPCC National Committee's secretary-general Qian Yunlu.

All the works on display at the exhibition, in the Beijing Fine Art Academy, are aid from Li's family members including his widow Zou Peizhu.

The exhibits contain 108 Chinese paintings and 13 water and color paintings by the artist. And these are only part of the family's contributions to the Municipal Government of Beijing.

Li, a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, east China, began studying the traditional Chinese paintings at 13. He is also known as a great master in painting mountains and water.

The magic of kishangarh painting and its inspiration

Kishangarh art is simply concerned with the realities of life; above all, with passionate love service, conceived as the symbol of all combination. Rajput art creates a magic world where all men are heroic, passionate and shy, all women are beautiful, beast both wild and tame are friends of man and trees and flowers are conscious of the footsteps of the bridegroom as he passes by. This magic world is not unreal or fanciful, but a world of imagination and eternity, observable to all who do not refuse to see with the transfiguring eyes of love.

By the middle of thirteenth century Islam was firmly recognized in India and during this time forward Sufism influenced Hinduism greatly. The Sufi position of union with God through devotional love was seen a mirror reflection and complementary to the devotion of Krishna in Vaishnavite division of Hinduism. Vedantic idea of Oneness found its admiration in the Supreme Oneness of Allah and Islam's teachings.

According to Chaitanya, God or Krishna who is the symbol of God on earth is the lover and the soul of man is his bride represented by Radha, For describing the stages of Radha's love for Krishna, the similarity of human love was adapted. Such paintings were, at first sight, easy to understand. Although they alternated between two methods of expression - the first a style of savage distortion, the second a style of the softest grace--each manner enlivened the ordinary subject.

Best way to express our paintings

Basically, Painting is a expression applied to the deliberate application of paint to a surface, whether for decoration and protection of that surface, or in order to create an image upon that surface. Paint can be used to express color, emotions and a distortion of realism, and so that is what it tends to be used for. The best way to do this is to focus on rising one area of painting at a time. For example, when dealing with color, experiment purely with squares of color, to note the crash that one color has upon another. If experimenting with tone restricts your palette to just white, black, and the shades of grey that can be mixed with them. In doing this you will slowly build an understanding of the elements that make up painting. This is a good way to have fun with nature, learn a paint and express your creativity.

Yale Sued over Van Gogh Painting held by Soviets

A successor of the onetime owner of a famed Van Gogh painting has sued Yale University in an effort to reclaim the artwork from the Ivy League school.

In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in New Haven, Conn., Pierre Konowaloff alleged that the university should have known the painting - "The Night Café" - has been confiscated from his great-grandfather, a Russian industrialist and aristocrat, Ivan Morozov, during the Communist takeover of Russia in the early 1900s.

The 1888 painting was consequently sold by the Soviet government to a European gallery. Stephen Carlton Clark, a Yale alumnus, bought the paintings from a gallery in New York in the early 1930s and bequeathed it to Yale in 1961.

Traditional chinese painting in twentieth century

The first decades of the twentieth century marked the end of the insular, tradition-bound Qing empire (1644–1911) and the strong entry of China into the modern age. Zhang, who became a most important connoisseur and collector, based his diverse painting styles on the firsthand study of early masterpieces, while Fu, an academic, learned about earlier works from reproductions and copies.

Fu Baoshi (1904–1965) and Zhang Daqian (1899–1983), both of whom studied in Japan and traveled abroad late in their lives, some powerful artists created hybrid styles that reflected a cosmopolitan attitude toward art and a willingness to modify inherited traditional through the incorporation of foreign idioms and techniques. Zhang, who became a important connoisseur and collector, based his diverse painting styles on the firsthand study of early masterpieces, while Fu, an academic, learned about earlier works from reproductions and copies.

With the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, cultural activities came under the power of the state. Seeking to reform traditional paintings to make it "serve the people," the Communist government mandated that artists follow a "revolutionary realism" that would celebrate the heroism of the regular people or convey the majesty of the motherland.

Informations about painter Mr.M.F.Hussain

Mr. Maqbool Fida Husain has depicted lots of Hindu Gods and deities nude in his paintings. That at the same time his paintings related to Muslim and other religions does not depict any nudity in respect of the respective persons, Gods and goddesses. A comparison of his paintings on Hindu mythology and religion and other religion leads to the inevitable conclusion that the Hindu nude paintings become visible to be with the sole objective to hurt Hindu religious sentiment and insult the Hindu religion and provoke communal tensions in this country. Thus he is doing his business by drawing pornographically paintings of Hindu Gods and Godesses.

M F Husain has been chosen for Kerala government's prestigious Raja Ravi Varma Award. Announcing this year's award, education and culture minister M A Baby said the award comprising Rs.1.25 lakh in cash prize, a citiation and a sign would be presented to M F Husain on his birthday on September 17.

M F Husain paintings

Beautifull art paintings of women