SJ Rozan

Woman’s Court or Audience Robe

Chaofu

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

late 18th–19th century

Silk satin brocaded with silk and metallic thread

http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/asian_art/woman_s_court_or_audience_robe_chaofu/objectview_enlarge.aspx?page=1&sort=6&sortdir=asc&keyword=china%2019th%20century&fp=1&dd1=6&dd2=0&vw=1&collID=6&OID=60042646&vT=1&hi=0&ov=0

Yang Yongliang

Yang Yongliang, 1980, China, approaches photography in a very unique way.

He studied traditional Chinese art and calligraphy from an early age. He recreated Chinese Shanshui paintings with the use of a camera in order to express himself and the subjects that concern him.

It is a combination of the layout of these traditional paintings with images of construction sites, cranes, traffic signs and more which he arranges in a way that from far they look just like an original painting, but when coming closer one can see the detailed photographs.

http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2011/01/photographer-205-yang-yongliang.html

Service with Decoration of Flowers and Birds

Culture: China

Period: Southern Song (1127–1278)–Yuan (1271–1368) dynasty

Date: late 13th–early 14th century

Medium: Silver with gilding

Dimensions: Diam. from 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm) to 7 1/2 in. (19 cm)

Classification: Metalwork

Credit Line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 1997

http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/asian_art/service_with_decoration_of_flowers_and_birds/objectview.aspx?page=1&sort=6&sortdir=asc&keyword=china%20song&fp=1&dd1=6&dd2=0&vw=1&collID=6&OID=60022077&vT=1&hi=0&ov=0

Yue Minjun

Untitled

2005

Oil on canvas

220.3 x 200 cm

Immediately humorous and sympathetic, Yue Minjun’s paintings offer a light-hearted approach to philosophical enquiry and contemplation of existence. Drawing connotations to the disparate images of the Laughing Buddha and the inane gap toothed grin of Alfred E. Newman, Yue’s self-portraits have been describe by theorist Li Xianting as “a self-ironic response to the spiritual vacuum and folly of modern-day China.”

Often basing his compositions on well known European masterpieces and iconic Chinese art, Yue subverts the grandiose aura of art history through his adaptation of pop aesthetics. Using both the exaggerated expressiveness of cartooning and the stylistic rendering of graphic illustration, Yue depicts his cloned doppelgangers as contorted and grotesque, all scalded pink skin and maniacal toothy cackles.

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/artpages/yue_minjun_untitled.htm

Buddha Vairocana (Dari)

Title/Object Name: Buddha Vairocana (Dari)

Culture: China

Period: Tang dynasty (618–907)

Date: early 8th century

Medium: Gilt arsenical leaded bronze; lost-wax cast

Dimensions: H. 8 in. (20.3 cm); Diam. (at base) 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm)

Classification: Sculpture

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1943

http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/asian_art/buddha_vairocana_dari/objectview.aspx?page=1&sort=6&sortdir=asc&keyword=china%20buddha&fp=1&dd1=6&dd2=0&vw=1&collID=6&OID=60025210&vT=1&hi=0&ov=0

Buddha Vairocana base

Qi Baishi

Chinese, 1864–1957

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Peony

Dated 1947

Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/asian_art/peony_qi_baishi/objectview.aspx?page=1&sort=6&sortdir=asc&keyword=china%20peony&fp=1&dd1=6&dd2=0&vw=1&collID=6&OID=60047869&vT=1&hi=0&ov=0

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Culture: China

Period: Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

Date: late 16th–early 17th century

Medium: Silk tapestry (kesi)

Classification: Textiles-Tapestries

Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1936

http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/asian_art/rank_badge/objectview.aspx?page=2&sort=6&sortdir=asc&keyword=china%20ming&fp=1&dd1=6&dd2=0&vw=1&collID=6&OID=60021229&vT=1&hi=0&ov=0

Xie Xiaoze

June-August 2008 G.Z.R.B.

oil on canvas

2010

80 x 93 inches

http://chambersfineart.com/artists/Xie_Xiaoze/XXZ_June_August_2008_GZRB.shtml

After: Shen Nanpin (Shen Quan)

Chinese, 1682–after 1762

Title/Object Name: Cranes, Peach Tree, and Chinese Roses

Culture: China

Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

Dimensions: Image: 78 1/4 x 39 3/4 in. (198.8 x 101 cm)

Overall with mounting: 97 3/4 x 48 1/8 in. (248.3 x 122.2 cm)

Overall with knobs: 97 3/4 x 51 1/8 in. (248.3 x 129.9 cm)

Classification: Painting

Credit Line: The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975

http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/asian_art/cranes_peach_tree_and_chinese_roses_shen_nanpin_shen_quan/objectview.aspx?page=5&sort=6&sortdir=asc&keyword=china%20qing&fp=1&dd1=6&dd2=0&vw=1&collID=6&OID=60000169&vT=1&hi=0&ov=0

Xiangtian Dance III

paper-cut

2010

29.5 x 37.5 (75 x 95 cm)

http://chambersfineart.com/artists/Wu_Jian’an/WJA_Xingtian_Dance_III.shtml