Traditional Painting Theory

10 books

On Painting from the Yi Garden cover
Rating 4.2
On Painting from the Yi Garden 松年 / 关和璋 People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026 After Song Nian settled in Jinan, he excelled in landscape, bird-and-flower, figure, and orchid-and-bamboo painting, and his fame quickly spread throu…
The Painting Trap cover
Rating 4.5
The Painting Trap 笪重光 / 关和璋 / Xue Yongnian People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026 This book is a work of Chinese painting theory from the Qing dynasty. Huqian (The Painting Bamboo Trap) was printed in the summer of the seventh year …
The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting 3: Flowers and Feathered Birds (Chao Xun Copy Edition) cover
Rating 4.5
The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting 3: Flowers and Feathered Birds (Chao Xun Copy Edition) 沈心友 People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026 Jieziyuan Huazhuan (Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting), Volume 3: Flowers, Grasses, Insects, and Feathers (Chao Xun's Copy Edition) was compiled …
The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting 1: Landscapes (Chao Xun Copy Edition) cover
Rating 4.6
The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting 1: Landscapes (Chao Xun Copy Edition) Wang Gai People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026 Jieziyuan Huazhuan (1): Landscapes (Chao Xun's Copy Edition) is the first volume of the famous Qing dynasty painting manual Jieziyuan Huazhuan. It was…
Conjectural Explanations of Gong Xian's Painting Theory cover
Rating 3.9
Conjectural Explanations of Gong Xian's Painting Theory 柯文辉 People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026 This book is based on Ke Wenhui's lecture notes for a course he was invited by Liu Haisu to teach in the Department of Art History at Nanjing Arts Ins…
The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting 4: Figures (Chao Xun Copy Edition) cover
Rating 4.5
The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting 4: Figures (Chao Xun Copy Edition) 沈心友 People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026 Jieziyuan Huazhuan (Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting), Vol. 4: Figures (Chao Xun's Copy) is a textbook that past beginners used to learn the tec…
An Analysis of Traditional Chinese Landscape Painting Techniques: Step-by-Step Diagrams of Masterpieces Handed Down Through the Dynasties cover
Rating 4.5
An Analysis of Traditional Chinese Landscape Painting Techniques: Step-by-Step Diagrams of Masterpieces Handed Down Through the Dynasties 刘松岩 People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026 Copying old paintings is an essential step in learning traditional landscape painting. Traditional masterworks' technical breakdowns are beyond the ti…
Collected Writings on Art Studies Through Chinese Dynasties: Fine Arts Volume (Part 1): Painting Theory cover
Rating 3.8
Collected Writings on Art Studies Through Chinese Dynasties: Fine Arts Volume (Part 1): Painting Theory Ding Ning · 2025 This book follows the history of Chinese painting as its thread and is divided into six chapters: "Study of Wei-Jin and Northern-Southern Dynasties Pa…
Pure and Complete Collection on Mountains and Waters cover
Rating 4.0
Pure and Complete Collection on Mountains and Waters 韩拙 · 2024 Shanshui Chun Quan Ji (Complete Works on Landscape Painting) is in one juan, written by Han Zhuo of the Song dynasty. Zhuo, courtesy name Chunquan, st…
Collected Works from the Qiushi Studio cover
Rating 2.8
Collected Works from the Qiushi Studio 金鸿钧 Zhonghua Book Company · 2023 This book collects 25 works by the famous painter Mr. Jin Hongjun, most of them reflections on his creation of gongbi flower-and-bird painting. In his…