Ben Li is a Chinese artist who graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing. He majored in sculpture and currently works both as an artist and as a teacher. Ben Li specializes in figure sculpture, portrait sculpture, pottery, and public art installations. He often works with materials like stone and wood. In addition ...
Michael Soi is a painter from Kenya who is not happy with China’s involvement in Africa. He feels that the relationship is akin to neo-colonization. As an artist, Soi brings attention to this problem in the best way he can — through paintings. He has created about 100 such paintings on the theme as part ...
Compared to his time in the boxing ring and then his stint acting and appearing on television, Cesar Santos’s calling as an artist came naturally. “Everything else I did, there was an internal conflict within me. Every time I was painting or drawing, things were flowing better, even my life. There was more love I was ...
Leonardo da Vinci would grasp his small notebook that always hung from his belt and sketch profusely whenever he came across something eye-catching, says historian Toby Lester. Leonardo da Vinci’s collection of notebooks is filled to the brim with sketches, measurements, and observations centered around four themes — painting, architecture, mechanics, and human anatomy. “It ...
Around 30,000 years ago, realistic Ice Age art suddenly flourished in Europe. Extremely accurate depictions of bears, bison, horses, and lions decorate the walls of Ice Age archaeological sites such as Chauvet Cave in southern France. The ability to focus on detail, a common trait among people with autism, allowed realism to flourish in Ice ...
Giuseppe Castiglione (July 19, 1688-July 17, 1766) was an Italian Jesuit Brother, a missionary in China, and a painter at the Royal Court of the emperor, who had a marked influence on Chinese painting. Giuseppe Castiglione was a missionary In 1715, Giuseppe Castiglione went to China as a missionary. While in China, Castiglione took the ...
Please examine these remarkable paintings, which give us an insight into the lives of children during the Song Dynasty. They were painted by Su Hanchen (1094-1172), who was a native of Kaifeng, Henan Province, who specialized in painting Buddhist and Taoist figures. During the Xuanhe era under Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty, Su was ...
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