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CHINESE ART BOOKS

AB-1 PAINTING FLOWERS, BIRDS AND INSECTS

Wang Xue-tao was one of the great Chinese brush painters in 20th century. He is not only followed traditional techniques, but also developed his own style of free flowing brush work.
10.25"x15" 54pp with 32 in color

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AB-3 PAINTING VEGETABLES AND FRUITS
In evolving his individual style, Zhang nai-guang specialized in depicting vegetables, fruits, fish and shellfish with meticulous line and handsome brush strokes. Each composition is carefully arranged within his unique illustrative approach.
10.25"x15" 48pp with 56 in color

AB-4 PAINTING FLOWERS IN GONG BI STYLE
by Yu Feiying, Tai Shiguang and Yu Zhizhen

Three outstanging contemporary Chinese masters specializing in Gong Bi (meticulous style) flower painting. Their works combine traditional and personal style, and have influenced many contemporary Chinese artists.
10.25"x15" 56pp with 64 in color

AB-10 LIU QI-YOU'S FLOWER AND BIRD PAINTINGS
His work explains in detail, methods used by key figures in the development of flower, bird, and insect painting. He tackles his subject in an unusual and pratical way. The book includes a progression of illustrations showing how his brush work is actually done.
10.25" x 15" 46pp with 45 in color $16.00

AB-17 THE ART WORK
BY YANG SHAN-SHEN
A Romantic bird and flower painter, whose interest in light / dark effects particularly in moonlight settings, gives a viewer of his work a wondrous sense of lingering mystery.
10" x 15" 46 pp with 53 in color and 24 b/w $16.00

AB-20 FLOWER PAINTING
BY YI FEI YING( 1888-1959)
A Beijing bird and flower painter who expressed a delicate sensual line and gradated color tonalities in compelling rhythmic compositions. His work has been compared to both western watercolor and oil painting. A noted colorist, he wrote many books on color in Chinese art.
10" x 15" 46 pp with 64 in color and 26 b/w $16.00

AB-24 PLUM BLOSSOM PAINTING
BY CHAI HE-DING(1909-1976)
Moving away from traditional painting, and specializing in plum blossoms, he developed a language of abstract expressive freedom, that carries a strong ink stroke and appropriate physiological color into his poetic expressions of the seasons.
10" x 15" 46 pp with 42 in color $16.00

AB-26 FREE BRUSH WORK OF BIRD
AND FLOWER BY CHAI HE-ZHOU
A bird and flower artist painting with free brush work, he exhibits a. delicate understanding of flowers, particularly roses, as well as mastery of wet on wet technique on Chinese paper.
10" x 15" 46 pp with 42 in color $16.00

AB-28 BAMBOO AND ORCHID
PAINTING BY LU KUN-FENG
The top bamboo and orchid painter in China today, he has a rich experience in teaching western students, as well as influencing contemporary Chinese artists. His brush moves in a calligraphic and atmospheric expression of his subject matter to the sheer delight of his viewers.
10" x 15" 46 pp with 40 in color and 8 b/w $16.00

AB-29 FLOWER PAINTING
BY CHEN ZI FEN(1898-1976)
A masterful bird and flower painter whose drawing analysis of his subjects in line gives us a botanists look at nature combined with an artists free use of brush and color which yields a strong poetic statement in his work.
10" x 15" 46 pp with 36 in color and 42 b/w $16.00

AB-30 BAMBOO AND LANDSCAPE PAINTING BY QI GONG
A very good traditional landscape and red bamboo painter, Qi Gong has mastered the impressionistic dot technique (mi dian) from the Ming dynasty, that has so strongly influenced Japanese painters.
10" X 15" 46 pp with 45 in color and 1 b/w $16.00

AB-41 FREE BRUSH WORK OF FLOWER
BY MASTER PAN TIAN-SHOU
Pan (1897-1971) is a great master of Chinese painting, art history, calligraphy, and seal carving of 20th century. He was President of China National Academy of Fine Arts. He specialized in skillful and powerful free brush landscapes, and flower painting. His unique finger painting style is difference than other masters works.
10.25" x 15" 46 pp with 42 in color $16.00

AB-46 FLOWER PAINTING BY
KANG SHI-XIAO(1922-1985)
An eclectic painter who dealt in both meticulous and free style brush work. He painted in a bird and flower mode throughout his life, inheriting from traditional painters and from that background developing his own artlanguage.
10" x 15" 46 pp with 44 in color and 3 b/w $16.00

AB-51 ZHANG XIN-JIA'S FLOWER AND BIRD PAINTING
Zhang (1909-1991) inherited the style of Four Great Ming Masters, combining the technique of Qing Masters Shi Tao and Ba Da. His free brush flower and bird works show perfect impressionistic ink and color.
10.25" x 15" 46 pp with 33 in color & 23 b/w $16.00

AB-69 THE ART OF XU GU
Xu Gu (1823-1896), a famous artist in Qing dynasty. This book offers up it's contemporary pastoral charm and poetic wisdom in a style where the flower shows strength and the bird is graceful. Where vigor contains delicacy and dignity is mingled with variety and charm.
10" x 15" 40 pp with 52 in color $19.95

AB-71 LING LIANG - MASTER OF BIRD PAINTING
Ling Liang (1416 - 1480) was a leading master in bird painting in Ming Dynasty. Well arranged the composition and free brush stroke depict the bird in his work vividly and lively active. His art style and skill became an example for Chinese artists from his time up to the present.
10" x 15" 54pp with 52 in color $19.95

AB-82 SHI TAO'S ECCENTRIC FLOWER
Shi Tao (1642 -1707) was a great master in Qing dynasty. He was a monk artist, and his political attitude was against the impereal court. Not following the tradition, his emotional and expressionistic ink stroke brings his flower painting unique, eccentric and influencial to many artists from the past to the present.
10" x 15" 44pp with 47 in color $19.95

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