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... Painting and calligraphy , like poetry , were the domain of the elite , and most educated Chinese traditionally boasted of some competence in them . There are early anonymous and folk - oriented paintings on tomb and cave walls , and ...
... Painting and calligraphy , like poetry , were the domain of the elite , and most educated Chinese traditionally boasted of some competence in them . There are early anonymous and folk - oriented paintings on tomb and cave walls , and ...
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... painting gave way to calligraphically inspired abstractions . Paint- ings became closely linked in style to the written inscrip- tions that appeared upon them with increasing frequency and prominence . Skillful professional techniques ...
... painting gave way to calligraphically inspired abstractions . Paint- ings became closely linked in style to the written inscrip- tions that appeared upon them with increasing frequency and prominence . Skillful professional techniques ...
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... painting dispenses with the predominance of the individual painter's freely creative imagination . Throughout the ... painting . Most Orthodox ecclesiastical artists have remained anonymous . Icon painting is viewed as a holy skill that ...
... painting dispenses with the predominance of the individual painter's freely creative imagination . Throughout the ... painting . Most Orthodox ecclesiastical artists have remained anonymous . Icon painting is viewed as a holy skill that ...
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