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25 Contemporary Chinese Artists You Need to Know - Complex
How do you select 25 individuals from a nation of 1.3 billion people? Arbitrarily is the only real answer. Though by no means exhaustive, the following list represents a cross section of artists that currently live and work in China and make really cool art.
http://www.complex.com/style/2013/03/25-contemporary-chinese-artists-you-need-to-know/
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Top 10 Most Famous Chinese Paintings - China
These paintings with an array of distinctive oriental styles record China's long history and reflect its beautiful landscapes. The following are the 10 most famous paintings of China, in no particular order.
http://www.china.org.cn/top10/2011-11/08/content_23854076.htm
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Collections: Chinese Art
The Freer and Sackler Galleries boast one of the finest museum collections of Chinese art outside of China, with more than ten thousand objects dating from Neolithic times (ca. 7000–ca. 2000 BCE) to the present.
http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/chinese.asp
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Chinese Art - Britannica
The painting, calligraphy, architecture, pottery, sculpture, bronzes, jade carving, and other fine or decorative art forms produced in China over the centuries.
http://www.britannica.com/art/Chinese-art
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Chinese Art Galleries - China Online Museum
Chinese Art, Calligraphy, Painting, Ceramics, Carving, Artwork Galleries at China Online Museum.
http://www.chinaonlinemuseum.com/art.php
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Ancient Chinese Art - Ancient China - Quatr.us
Ancient Chinese Art - Ancient China.
http://quatr.us/china/art/
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Chinese Art Facts, Information, Pictures - Encyclopedia
Get information, facts, and pictures about Chinese art at Encyclopedia.com. Make research projects and school reports about Chinese art easy with credible articles from our FREE, online encyclopedia and dictionary.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Chinese_art.aspx
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China, Art of Asia - Khan Academy
Imperial Chinese history begins in the 3rd century B.C.E. with Qin Shihuang, the first Emperor of China and ends with the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911.
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-asia/imperial-china
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Chinese Art: Characteristics, History
Chinese Art (1700 BCE Onwards): Development of Visual Arts in China: Painting, Pottery, Calligraphy, Jade Sculpture.
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/east-asian-art/chinese.htm
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Chinese Cultural Studies
Chinese art, like Chinese literature, goes back many centuries. Early themes were developed from religious and supernatural beliefs or from the natural environment and landscape. One of the oldest and most basic forms of Chinese art is calligraphy, the painting of the Chinese characters with a brush. Calligraphy has developed as a pure art form with its own standards of excellence.
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/chinarts.html
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Chinese Arts, Chinese Performing Arts and Physical Arts - ChinaHighlights
The Chinese arts are an important part of Chinese heritage and culture, include performing arts, sculptures, paintings and cave drawings.
http://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/culture/art-list.htm
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Chinese Art: Traditional - Stanford University Libraries
This guide is designed to provide an introduction to the literature of traditional Chinese art. It also presents a selection of key primary source holdings in traditional Chinese art in the Stanford University Libraries.
http://library.stanford.edu/guides/chinese-art-traditional
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Chinese Art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia's information about Chinese Art.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_art
