The document discusses the history and characteristics of Chinese art forms. It notes that Tang Dynasty poets first combined poetry and painting. It describes Chinese landscape painting as using monochromatic colors and sparse strokes to depict nature and emotions. Common themes included flowers, birds, landscapes, palaces, temples, figures, and animals. It also summarizes that Chinese art considered the relationship between heaven, earth, and humanity. The document concludes by outlining the materials and styles used in traditional Chinese calligraphy.

2. It is said that the Tang Dynasty poets were the first to introduce the
combination of painting and poetry into the artwork. Three perfection is the
collaboration of poets, calligraphers, and painters to create a painting that
includes the work of a calligrapher to write a “soundless poem”. A soundless
poem describes how one might experience a painting with sound, sight,
smell, touch, and emotions.
Chinese landscape painting is also known as shan shui or mountain
water painting. Artists use monochromatic colors and sparse strokes. Its
purpose is to grasp an emotion like catching nature rhythm. The theme of
the paintings are flowers and birds, landscape, palace and temples, human
figures, animals, bamboos, and stones.

3. Theme of Chinese Arts:
Flowers and birds landscape

4. Palace and temples Human figures

5. Animals Bamboos

6. Stones

7. Chinese painting considered the three concepts in their art: heaven,
earth, and humankind (yin-yang).

10. Chinese calligraphy as well as painting was
done on silk which was replaced by paper in the first
century. Works by famous calligraphers are mounted
by scrolls and hung on walls like painting. Materials
used for calligraphy are the following:
a. brush pen – made of animal hair
b. black inks – made from pine soot and
animal resin

11. Calligraphy Styles
1. Small Seal Style – lines are all of an even thickness and the
characters are elongated to fit neatly into a vertical rectangle.
2. Clerical Style – style used on official documents such as government
records of taxes, census records, and deeds

12. 3. Regular Style – preserves the clerical script’s precision and
modulation of line width but is less formal and heavy in appearance
4. Running Style – strokes and dots that are written separately
in the regular style are joined together in a single sweep of the brush,
thus producing a feeling of speed and fluency

13. Examples of Chinese Calligraphy:

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