Fine Chinese Art and Chinese Painting

Qi baishi Paintings and now his reproduced copies are available in chinese5art.com

2010-04-22T19:30:00.000-07:00

Qi baishi, Formerly known as Qi ChunZhi, was born in 1864 at Hunan Province of China, Qi was the professor of Central Academy of Fine Arts, he learned wood carving when he was young and began to study painting in the year of 1888. Qi was at the same time the president of Longshou mountain poetry, he traveled around China within 7 years for further painting skill strengthening since 1902, and finally stayed in the city of Beijing in 1919. Qi was teaching in the Bei Ping National Fine Arts School from year 1926 to 1936, while at the year of 1946, he hosted painting exhibition in Shanghai and started being appointed as honorary professor of Beijing Art College.

Qi was elected as a member of China National Art Workers Association as well as committee of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (CFLAC), and he was early or late appointed as the Honorary Professor of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Chairman of the Chinese Artists Association, Central Literary History Research Librarian, Chairman of Beijing Chinese Painting Research Society, honorary president of Beijing Art Gallery. In 1953 Qi was even awarded as "People's Artist " by the Chinese Cultural Ministry. Qi and his paintings were also recognized internationally, Art Academy Department in Germany in 1955 had awarded him as the "Corresponding Member". While World Peace Council in 1963 elected Qi as one of International Cultural Celebrity, at the same year Qi baishi 100th Anniversary Exhibition was held at the Art Museum of China. Publication of albums such as "Qi baishi Collections" and "Qi baishi landscape paintings selection" were soon or later being published and in one conclusion, Qi Baishi is absolutely one of giants in the field of modern Chinese Academy and Fine Arts.

Qi had great interest on carving during his early 30s, and he started to learn from the local carving professor. He apprenticed to carving Master Huang Xiangyi when he was 35 years old, he was later influent by his friends and began to travel all over China in a purpose of keeping his mindset updated, which indirectly generated a success in this later painting career. Qi was living on painting at the age of 41 in Guilin while at the same time he travel even more places such as Guangzhou, Guangxi, Chongqing, Vietnam, Shanghai and Nanjing, during this period his painting style had apparently change from the fine art of meticulous to draw freehand.

Qi decided to stay in Beijing for better career opportunities by painting and carving, and he got to know Master Chen Shizeng and was influent then by him in the painting philosophy. Qi then created his own painting style by adding with Pure Red and Dark Jet Black elements, together to form a picture in sharp contrast to produce clean and simple feeling in his creations. Qi was then be friend with masters like Mei Lanfang, Xu beihong and Ai qing when he was in Beijing, and he was later exhibit his artworks globally under assistance of Chen and that bring his Chinese paintings and Chinese fine arts to the rest of whole world.

Along with the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in the year 1949, Qi was strongly awarded and appraised by Chinese Government due to his indomitable spirit against the invasion of Japanese army during World War Two. Qi was eventually awarded as honorary president of China Art Gallery in Beijing in 1957, and he had never given up painting in the rest of his life even at the last moment of his 93’s.

Among all of Qi baishi paintings, Prawn Drawing can be considered as his most successful and famous object compared with other artists, Qi was very strong in that and had his unique technique to draw prawn and crab in a lifelike pattern. In his painting, ink was used slightly to paint body of prawn while dense for those important parts such as eyes in together to create a lively picture of swimming prawns. Qi was able to manage the final effect in combining water, ink and Xuan paper when painting, which making the drawn prawns more hyaline and active. The best of his prawn drawings were mostly created in his early 70s and onwards, in a more hyaline, lively, active, and animate manner.

Qi was seldom drawing portraits; however his portrait technique was somehow inffluent by the late Qing period artists. Props in his portrait painting were usually unique and well picked, either they had certain degree of implied meaning, or they may represent some sort of Chinese tradition and custom.

Flowers and birds were also hot subjects in Qi’s paintings, however not many people know that Qi was actually more prefer landscape paintings, he was even thought that his landscape painting skill was better than Flowers and Birds drawing. Of course now his self-evaluation is well recognized by connoisseurs all over the world. The price of these artworks soar up dramatically and auction fairs are held from time to time due to the comparatively lack of his landscape copies.

Qi baishi calligraphy is the same excellent with his paintings, especially after his great innovation. Qi style calligraphy was strongly recognized and affirmed by the contemporary calligraphers, critics, and connoisseurs.

Meanwhile Qi was also sometimes draw creatural objects, animals were treated as children in this creations, especially for those petty ones such as flog, tadpoles, spiders and prawns, objects from the kingdom of animals are always being drawn in a outstanding quality by Qi baishi.

Now the good new here is we are able to offer reproduction service on most of Qi baishi paintings, which is produced as per order and exactly the same size & visual effect with the original copy. All of the Qi baishi paintings from Calligraphy and Prints column are fully mounted and standard packed before delivered!! and the reproduction service take up to one week to make it ready for delivery. If you are really like paintings from Qi, please don’t miss out this offer from us, and we will not let you down in term of quality and service.

Museum collections and art pieces from notable painters throughout Chinese history are now open for purchasing and they are reproduced as per order too, for those who love Chinese painting please take a move now!!

Traditional Chinese Painting on exhibited by Huang Ye Cun

2010-04-14T03:13:00.000-07:00

Traditional Chinese Painting and its relevant fine art hand-made products are indeed one of the cultural heritages that for those who love Chinese elements should never ignore, especially for those outstanding copies drawn by talented giants historically. Recently I found that I start crazy about this Chinese traditional art pieces and I plan to visit this traditional art gallery periodically from now on. I will certainly post my thoughts and share my feel to the blog here after every visit that I have made, perhaps it gonna be the best way to gather people with the same hobby and interest. And please please do comment sometime if there is anything out there in your mind!

Fall in love with this traditional art pieces maybe a destiny that It will somehow come to my life, perhaps at the age of our young, it is a bit unbelievable that people in their early 20s willing to take part into this over-thousand-year-history Chinese painting story. I wish that someday in the future I was able to run a Chinese painting exhibition, and I plan to search for creative copies and spent the rest of my life in collecting them, the funny thing is I found life is good with goal, same important with the one you love who you plan to spent the rest of life to care for. LOL

For the late coming posts, I will try to share my thoughts in dealing with Chinese painting, such as picking the right one to collect, choosing the right way to mount it, or maybe take the best one to build up better home décor, etc. In a word, in this blog section, we learn Traditional Fine Art stuffs all together to make our life differentiated from others. Keep updated!!

Let’s back to the right topic, last Sunday I went to one of the most famous Guan Shanyue Art Museum in the city of Shenzhen (gsyart.com), in which some local famous artists exhibit their artwork periodically, and it is free of charge for visiting. Paintings on show are mostly created years ago, and I have snapshot some of this painting that I think it ranged outstanding quality and worth to visit for your reference

This painting is at least more than 5 meters at length and I do believe artist spent plenty of work on it. Will this be the type you like to decorate your house??

Unfortunately paintings out there this time are mostly relevant to landscape theme which was common used to draw a painting formerly.

This is the resume of artist and for those who are able to read Chinese could be meaningful.

Here we go now, this is the painting for the whole exhibition I like the most and it comes to a set that describe four season of the nature, it may not that good by watching through photograph, but it do look good if you are there right in front of this painting honestly.

I like this painting too as it won’t be easy to draw freehand in this way given that all elements inside are well constructed, it is first of its kind creation where artist must standing on top of the mountain and overlook the river for the best picture, how great!!

It is a short visit to the art museum and three of us are nearly get cold in the occasional drizzles, well more updates will be posted shortly and I wish to contribute more for this Chinese painting community, LOL!

little talks on Traditional Chinese in Brush

2010-02-20T22:26:00.001-08:00

Presented by www.chinese5art.com at 2010-2-21

As one of important tools in Chinese painting, the traditional Chinese Ink Brush may or may not known by most of foreigners, and sometimes I am quite surprise that those famous paintings was actually created by such an simple ink brush! Here at the moment I would like to talk little about Chinese Ink Brush.

The Chinese ink brush is mostly made of hairs of goat, rabbit or the weasel tail, because hair from these animals is soft and in good elasticity. Soaked in ink, it has what is known as “capillarity”, which combined with the strong ink permeability of a special Chinese paper, making the strokes in a calligraphic work more vivid, varied and pretty.

The use of the Chinese ink brush can be traced back to 6,000 years ago. Previously, the brush was made very simple. It seems that the picture, symbols and characters on ancient pottery, painted in red and black, were done with brush strokes.

The earliest brush intact today was found in a fifth century BC tomb of the State of Chu in 1958. A large number of inscriptions on bamboo strips were unearthed at the same time.

Since the fourth century in China, the skill of brush making saw great progress, and The Chinese ink brush became more suitable for calligraphers & Painter to bring their skills into full play. It had four features, summed up as follows: first, the tip of the brush could display the delicate changes of strokes. Second, its smooth end hair could make writing vigorous while it spread across the paper. Third, its cone shape made it easy to move in all directions. Fourth, it was durable, and kept is elasticity and softness longer. With such a brush, the calligrapher could easily write characters in different shapes, displaying different intensities and rhythms. By using different thicknesses of ink, the characters become three-dimensional.

The brushes from the province of Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and Henan are the most famous in the country. while The biggest one was made by a factory in Tianjin city in 1979. It is 157 cm long in total with the 20-cm long hair end, and it weighs as many as five kg. It is able to soak up one kg of ink. On the morning of September 14, 1979, calligrapher Yang Xuanting from Beijing wrote four characters meaning “Long Live the Motherland” on a piece Xuan paper 100 cm long and 150cm wide with this brush to celebrate the 30th founding anniversary of PCR China.

Size of ink brush is generally classified as either big (Da Kai), medium (Zhong Kai) or small (Xiao Kai); most calligraphy is written with a medium-sized brush as it is easy for beginers. The smallest brushes are normally used for writing very small pieces and for fashioning designs of seals. Medium brushes are the most widely used and accepted by public; wielded by a skilled artist, a medium brush can produce a variety of thicknesses of line, from those very thin to fairly thick. while finally the largest brushes are used only for very large pieces, such as calligraphy creations hung in the lobby of hotels.

For the texture of ink brush, it is usually produced to either soft (ruan hao), mixed (jian hao) or hard (ying hao), where certain textures are better in writing certain styles than others.

Traditional Chinese Ink Brush is a treasure in the history of China, and if you love Chinese culture or Chinese Fine Art, Ink Brush will be the one you will never ever miss.

Fine Chinese Art and Chinese Painting, Chinese Traditional Calligraphy

Top Ten Paintings In Chinese History

2010-02-19T23:31:00.001-08:00

Presented by www.chinese5art.com at 2010-2-20

Top Ten Priceless Chinese Paintings in the history

"Chinese Top Ten Masterpieces of Painting" is an eternal monument in the history of Chinese Fine Art; it is the ten-great-masterpiece of Chinese Civilization. It is also considered as a floating Chinese history, a silent movement, and a permanently Bookmark of Chinese civilization.

These Chinese Top Ten Paintings are all priceless treasures since the origin of Chinese civilization year after year. And they were well collected during Jia-Qing Period of QING Dynasty, After numerous civil war followed by the whole world dispersed, all these paintings are now being collected in different museums nationwide. In the below section, I would like to go through them one by one.

东晋•顾恺之《洛神赋图》

“Goddess Luo Rhapsody” Gu Kaizhi from Dong Jin Dynasty

"Goddess Luo Rhapsody", is now being collected in the Beijing Palace Museum of the Forbidden City, which is mounted by Silk with colors, with vertical height of 27.1cm and horizontal length of 572.8cm. The original "Goddess Luo Rhapsody" was drawn by the famous artist Gu Kaizhi at the Eastern JIN Dynasty.

This painting was created and sourcing from portray of Cao Zhi who was the famous poet at Three Kingdom Dynasty. This famous painting to some extent, keep retaining the traits of Gu Kaizhi art and his unique drawing characteristics. The whole story is divided into three parts to careful structure the genuine love story between Cao Zhi and his Goddess.

This painting was ranking the best quality of its kind in the ancient China history and for those who love Chinese painting I would highly recommend a visit to the Forbidden City of Beijing for more details.

唐•阎立本《步辇图》

“Pace of Emperor”, Yan Liben from Tang Dynasty

"Pace of Emperor," which is collected in Beijing Palace Museum of The Forbidden City, was mounted by Silk in colors, sized in 38.5cm*129.6cm. Yan is a painter in the Tang Dynasty famous in skillful & fluent streak painting, and his artwork here is now an historical treasure and priceless.

"Pace of Emperor" talks about the marriage of Tibetan leader Songtsan Gambo and Princess Wen Cheng in sixth century.Person in the right is the Emperor of Tang, who is sitting & surrounded by maids of honor, while the first left is Translator, second is Lu Dongzan, and the third one is Tang Officer.

From the perspective of the Chinese painting, presentation skill of the artist is considered quite proficient. Primary characters of the painting look full of youth and vitality. This is an imitated copy in Song Dynasty and it was well painted compared to the original copy.

唐•张萱、周昉《唐宫仕女图》

“Maid of Honor”, Zhang xuan & Zhou Fang from Tang Dynasty

"Maid of Honor" came from the Tang Dynasty as the most glorious era of feudal society, and Tang Dynasty is also the prosperity and flourishing period of Chinese Painting. Creatures like the ladies and maid of honor from noble families in the ancient Tang China are the preferred target among artists. Zhang Xuan and Zhou Fang is the most famous painter in Tang Dynasty with world-class reputation in drawing noblewomen. And even now for today, drawing ladies is one of the main categories when creating a Chinese painting among artist, for those who over painting with this subject please visit Museum of Liaoning Province and Forbidden City, where some other ancient masterpieces are well collected.

唐•韩滉《五牛图》

“Five Oxen”, Han Huang from Tang Dynasty

Painting of "Five Oxen" is currently collected in the Beijing Palace Museum of Forbidden City. Mounted by Hemp paper, sized 28.8cm*139.8cm, which was drawn by Prime Minister of Tang Dynasty Mr. Han Huang. (723-787 AD).Han was born in Chang’an and strong in drawing Oxen. The painting "Five Oxen" is Han Huang’s most vivid one, it was early or late collected by most of famous people like Zhao Gou (Song Emperor), Qian Long (Qing Emperor), etc.

Today, visitors are able to found this painting in the museum of Beijing Forbidden City and it is so far considered as the first-of-the-kind famous in drawing OX in such a vivid and pictorial way historically.

五代•顾闳中《韩熙载夜宴图》

“Han Xizai Banquet”, Gu Hongzhong from Five Dynasties

Painting of “Han Xizai Banquet” is collected by Beijing Palace Museum of Forbidden City, which is mounted by Silk and sized in 27.9cm* 69cm. it was from the great painter in Five Dynasties, Gu Portrayed scene where giant Han family hosted their even banquet with plenty number of guest together in the form of long scroll painting. And this is considered as the most famous and valuable one that created in the Five Dynasties.

"Han Xizai Banquet" is three meters in length, and it’s divided into five sections, each part is screen off technically. The first section talks about scene that Han and his guests listening to the play from maids, while in section two Han himself play drum for plays. Each section of the painting is different from others and all of them are rich with contents in regards to banquet and plays.

This Scroll painting is not just a description of private life, but more importantly it reflects the lifestyle of that particular era. Due to the subtle observation from the artist, we may not miss out any of the details from Han’s evening banquet. With amazing powers of observation and his deep understanding of life, Gu had finally created such a wonderful work of painting that leave endless aftertastes.

北宋•王希孟《千里江山图》

“The Grand Territory”, Wang Ximeng from Song Dynasty

"The Grand Territory" is now collected by the Beijing Palace Museum, it was mounted by Silk in colors, sized 51.5cm*1191.5cm and it came from the famous landscape painter Wang XiMeng in Song Dynasty.

Wang Ximeng studied in Northern Song Painting Academy school at his age of 18, who used to taught by Emperor Song Huizhong. However this talented artist die in the early 20s which is considered as a tragedy lost in Chinese art field.

"The Grand Territory" pictures the Stretching of mountain, secluded rock & deep valley, slope peak, flowing river & spring, etc. it was fully Inherited landscape drawing techniques since the Sui and Tang dynasties, when green color was strongly popular in Chinese painting. “The Grand Territory” as one of the best Chinese painting with landscape theme, it had even been then remarked by Mr. Cai Jing, who was the Prime Minister of Song Dynasty. From this we can see how outstanding this painting was in tern of quality, creativity and popularity.

北宋•张择端《清明上河图》

“Qingming Riverside”, Zhang Zeduan from Song Dynasty

“Qingming Riverside” is the only copy that created by the famous artist Zhang in Song Dynasty. And it is currently collected by Beijing Palace Museum. it was mounted by Silk in colors, with dimension width 24.8cm and 528.7cm in length.

"Qingming Riverside" is ranked as a state-level masterpiece & treasures that talk about folks & custom during Song Dynasty. As one of the most famous painting in China history, “Qingming Riverside is not only full of excellent skills but also paint down quite a number of the different stories among peoples. This painting is all about the prosperity & scene of capital city of Song Dynasty BIAN JING (Now Kaifeng City of Henan Province), which allows us today to fully understand the circumstance and lifestyle of all social castes in those days. We have to admit that “Qingming Riverside” has priceless value and contribution that others never ever have.

Painting of "Qingming Riverside" is a meticulous record of the capital of Song Dynasty in HUI ZHONG period. It focus mainly the palace of emperor and scene in around Bian River during Chinese traditional Qingming festival. There are 500 plus characters dressed differently, and each of them in this painting work on their own.

Basically, this painting was divided into three sections, first one talk about the seasonal scenery of Spring in the countryside of Bian Jing city, While the second section is all about scenery during the peak hour of Bian Riverside and Dock. And it eventually ends up with drawing the most hustle street of the city and the hustle of life among peoples.

It is all amazing that within this five-meter-long painting, there are 550 people, excluding Caws, horses, donkeys, vehicles, bridges, ships, houses that all came from the SONG Dynasty. Well for the end, I am crazy about this painting and used to watch on it for as long as 4 hours that never makes me feaze, and I do believe you too when it come to the right time.

元•黄公望《富春山居图》

“Spring Dwell in Mountain”, Huang Gongwang from Yuan Dynasty

“Spring Dwell in Mountain” is 33cm in width and 636.9cm in length, paper mounted and freehand style in ink painting. It was created in year 1347 and it took 3 years to complete. This painting was partly destroyed in Shunzhi period of Qing Dynasty but then repaired and now it is collected in the State Museum of Zhejiang Province.

“Spring Dwell in Mountain” was created in the later years of Huang Gong wang painting and it is considered as another masterpiece of landscape artwork historically. And Huang himself was also called as the leading person of the “Four Giants” during Yuan Dynasty.

This painting had been collected in the last hundreds of year and when it passed to Wu in the Ming Dynasty, Wu tried to burn it as his sacrificial object since he love it too much, and luckily the son stopped when the time half of the painting gone. And from that time on, this painting was actually separated into two parts. It is quite sad about damage of this famous painting, however I feel lucky too as part of it is safely kept and it is now publicly exhibited in Zhejiang Museum, for those who like this painting should not miss out such opportunity to make a short visit.

明•仇英《汉宫春晓图》

“Palace in Early Spring”, Qiu Ying from Ming Dynasty

“Palace in Spring” is considered as the first long scroll heavy meticulous style of Chinese painting mounted in silk, in its dimension of 37.2cm × 2038.5cm.

Qiu Ying was born in year 1498 (Hongzhi Period of Ming Dynasty) at the city of Tai Cang (now in Jiangsu Province)Taicang (Taicang Jiangsu Province today).

Qiu Ying is a representative painter of the Ming Dynasty, together with Shen Zhou, Wen Zheng-ming and Tang Yin were later known as the "Four Giants of Ming". Among four of them, Qiu Ying was outstanding with his heavy-color meticulous style of painting, especially when it comes to drawing maids with honor. Here the “Palace in Spring” is the most outstanding copy during Qiu’s lifetime, and artists right after him was hardly go beyond with better works.

清•郎世宁《百骏图》

“The Hundred Horses”, Lang Shining from Qing Dynasty

“The Hundred Horses” was work on paper, sized 102cm*813cm, and it is Currently collected in the Taipei Palace Museum. Italian missionary Giuseppe Castiglione was in call to serve the royal emperor families as a painter in year 1715.

With his 50 years serving in the Palace, Giuseppe Castiglione was regard highly by Emperor Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong with his unique & stylish painting; here “The Hundred Horses” is considered one of his best creations. Qing Dynasty as the peak of Chinese palace painting, has plenty number of painters who were strong in Chinese painting blended with western factors, while Giuseppe Castiglione was definitely one of the best.

Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766), who was born in Milan, used to learn and help drawing catholic monks in Europe, and arrived China in Kangxi Period of Qing Dynasty and then become Loyal Painter. He was able to come up with Chinese paintings that well mix with western factors, strong in the three-dimension and lighting effect of the painting. Giuseppe Castiglione contributed a lot in the cultural exchange field between the east and west, and he was buried in China after dead. In my mind, Giuseppe Castiglione is a legendary painter as he was the one to socially reintegrated in the ancient China, it is definitely not lucky but because of this outstanding painting skill as well as his creative thoughts to blend Chinese painting with western factors. It is an miracle!

Fine Chinese Art and Chinese Painting, Chinese Traditional Calligraphy

Getting to Know Tibet Thang-ka Paintings

2010-02-06T07:39:00.000-08:00

As one of handicraft works specific to Tibetan people, Thang-ka paintings refer to scrolled paintings mounted with satin fabric. Tibetan people mount these religious scrolled paintings with satin, and then hang them up and worship them. In the Tibetan palaces, temples and the residential area or their manorial gardens, people are used to place the Thang-ka. Nowadays, Thang-ka paintings are no longer as mysterious as before. Instead, they demonstrate to the whole world the exquisite techniques and wisdom of Tibetan people. Every stroke in Thang-ka paintings embodies the superb techniques of the artists as well as the respectful attitude towards Tibetan Buddhism. As Buddha images easiest to take along and worship, Thang-ka paintings are very useful in the religious sense. They are well-received both by numerous disciples and now by collectors.

A couple of procedures have to be followed before a Thang-ka painting is finished. First, stitch a piece of bottom cloth to a wooden frame. Process the bottom cloth through a special technique and make it smooth, clean, bright and devoid of holes. After the bottom cloth dries up, draw the outline of the figure with charcoal sticks, and then color it. After the painting is finished, decorate the periphery of the bottom cloth with satins of varied colors. String the upper and lower ends with wood spools so that the painting will be easy to hang up. Then cover the painting with a piece of silk which is as big as it, and a mounted scrolled Thang-ka painting is completed.

Pigment is very essential in making Thang-ka paintings bright and beautiful. The pigment for Thang-ka paintings is made from non-transparent natural minerals (kallaite, corals, gold, and silver) as well as plants. Then animal glue is added in proportion with oxgall. Thang-ka paintings made with such pigment will remain bright-colored even after hundreds of years.

You will sense the originality of the artist if you get down to appreciating an exquisite Thang-ka painting which is characterized by delicate brushwork and smart composition. Appreciating the images of Buddha helps purify ones soul.

At present, as a type of Tibetan Buddhist painting art, Thang-ka has finally developed into an art form which incorporates exquisite techniques, fine coloring, as well as a perfect combination of form and content. This achievement should be attributed to the unremitting efforts of innumerable generations of artists.

How to Buy The Right Chinese Contemporary Art

2010-02-04T21:28:00.000-08:00

Gone are the days when a modern masterpiece on a piece of bread broken in Beijing, then sell them for small fortunes abroad.
China is no longer the land of the unknown artist, but it means that they can not get their hands on some great and some basic knowledge and the right questions at hand.

The error has played the largest market and repetitive jumping into a work of art too early because I stand a block or a friend who was a good investment, said Jehan Chu Artistic Director and Head of the art collections of Vermillion in Hong Kong. You wouldnt buy a car or house, just because you want and you should not buy art, not the first study. Chu said he spends much time in introducing its customers a wide range of art before you buy something with the eyes, and helped to understand that art and the present market price.

According to Colin Chinnery, Director of ShContemporary art fair in Shanghai, it is useful and fun, please start by reading art books and lists of artists. It then suggests a half-day, looking through the galleries, which are your personal interests. Again and again, and mistrust.

If your eyes to see more art, your taste is refined, he said. And if a project is not a candidate now. This does not mean that we can play that way, but the price will learn new ideas workplace.

But while art shows in simple terms, a simple song or two, who gather to buy, more seriously, to work with an art dealer or consultant.Most resellers and consultants working together a wide network of contacts used for some may negotiate access and find the price, said Chu.

As you begin working with the gallery, you have the VIP list for an opening to know about the world of art and new artists to promote people meet.ShContemporary down side, an ongoing collection of educational events, tips how to develop a collection and networking opportunities.

Art experts insist that you buy what you do not very much of the investment value is about love, but nobody wants to take responsibility, Let's face it, art is a good investment. Pattinson gave the example of Chinese photographer Zhou Jun., sold some of the early works of art at affordable prices in China in 2006 to several thousand RMB. In 2007, his works sold for 20,000 yuan, and since then regularly travel upwards of RMB 40.000.

While the galleries, auction houses and dealers estimate the value of a work, artistic value and potential increases the value of good reviews from critics and museums, biennials and high profile office in more. A look at the career of the artist can be useful if you see a basket of work: the artist who graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts has always been most famous sites and positive criticism is perhaps a good investment. Note also the complete works of the artist and it is an impressive gallery.

The project is part of the identity of an artist, said Chinnery. Repetition is so important. However, this system is not foolproof: If you are an unknown artist, which is still in school projects slides of art and love must be purchased at a price of C simply more dangerous in terms of investment.

If you have a job, you can explore the value of artists and selling prices for similar projects to help the idea of whether considered a good price even C, that certain forms of art is experienced an increase in art prices, we believe that negotiation of the buyer.

Ask if the supporting work of the artist is known, could be a good or bad sign, but ITSA paid, how many pieces of the artist in general and certainly not provided [your file, an explanation of age Labor and the general situation] Beat Chu. No new projects will be as it was before, when issued, or request a decision before its publication. If the work of an artist sold at auction these resources and how Artnet.com Artprice.com.

Ask the young artists who are both famous sights and museums have already presented their projects. Their work is contemporary art is interesting and attractive and ITSA good starting point for first time buyers, said Chu. Solo exhibitions and fairs abroad can be a good indication that the artist, the attention of critics and curators to see what he or she is likely to gain in importance.

When choosing a printer, make sure ITSA limited edition version of size C, the better, although the number of copies that are not dependent on the value of the round.

Another problem is a matter of work. Chinese art has, for images or themes of the Cultural Revolution of Mao both prices and demand for all but the best artists have fallen dramatically, said Chu exposed. I appeal to collectors of my art, that the international world of art as art, the Foundation is very biased to Chinese to explore. Artist Search this section is a good long-term strategy. There are interesting works by contemporary artists that prints only what it offers. Artists take an ancient Chinese form, in this case, painting ink, and provide modern technical issues.

Many experts see the market slowdown of Chinese art during the last two years, as a necessary correction, what would happen if the global slowdown but long term prospects are solid with a class of increasingly affluent Chinese, ie The optimism is a large market for the purchase of new art market and the increase prices.Ultimately but what you choose, so make sure it is something that we love and we hope to see you happy, for the foreseeable future, C and deserve, but surely.