Qi Bayshi. Flowers and fruits. Art album

Artistic albums appeared in the Tang era, and their heyday fell on the Minsk and Qing period. They were also called miniatures, collections or album sheets. In them, collectors kept separate sketches, letters, round and folding fans to admire art objects. In the era of Ming and Qing, full -fledged collections appeared long before these times - later they became artistic albums of painting and calligraphy, which we used to see today.

The authors of the publication selected and streamlined the best works of famous artists of various eras assembled by Zhunbaochia workshop. Having passed through the skillful hands of layouts and editors, they finally became accessible to readers.

“Albums of the Zhunbaochia workshop” - this is not just a study that will introduce you to the works of painting and calligraphy China and their various forms. They contain an experience accumulated by masters in the eyelids of the Zhunbaochia brand, which today occupies a place of honor in the art world. You will learn about the representative of the “School of the Zhe” (Zhe-Pai), Lan INU, and the great artist “School of the Gush” (Gushu-Pai), Xiao Yunsuna, who lived at the end of the era of the Min-End of Qing; About the figures of the early (“whether the artist” with Shisyan and the alternate-livingor Van Gai) and the Middle (Juan Shen, one of the “eight Yangzhou eccentrics”, and not recognized by the canons, but no less talented Cao Jian).

Work collected in the albums will introduce you to the master of the Shanghai school, Jen Syun and Changho, with the best representatives of the “Painting of Scientists” (Wenjenhua), Juan Binhun and Qi Bayshi, and other famous figures of Chinese world of art. The authors expressed their own ideas about the main directions of calligraphy from the time of late mines to the present.