The pictures convey people's jubilation and expectations of the coming new year.
Just as the name implies, Chinese Peasant paintings are created by Chinese farmers or peasant artists.
Generations of Chinese artists exerted their utmost efforts to transform art from ancient Chinese civilizations into modern works.
The folding fan is also known as the "head-gathering" style of fan because its ends meet together when folded.
Ancient Chinese paintings can be traced back to as early as 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, when people began to use minerals to draw simple pictures.
Flowers and bird have close relationship with human's daily life. Even since ancient times, they have been the subjects of art.
Visitors enjoy artist Claude Monet's artwork Wisteria at Taiwan's National Museum of History in Taipei, November 13, 2013.
China Contemporary Ceramics Art Exhibition in Nantong, which will run through January 15, 2014, features 240 works of art from 56 well-known ceramic artists.
Dongba painting is the oldest and most representative religious painting of the ancient Naxi people.
China has a long history of using women as objects d'art since the Warring States and Western Han Dynasty.
Imperial painting academies were first established in the Five Dynasties. They were under the direct administration of the imperial government
Xu Wei (1521-1593) is also known as Xu Wenchang and, over the last hundreds of years, he has been quite a legend among ordinary Chinese people.
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