Invented in China around 300 B.C.E, the bamboo brush was originally intended solely for traditional calligraphy and ink painting styles. When grouped together with the inkstone, inkstick, and xuan ...

Bamboo has been a much-loved theme of Chinese painting for over 1,000 years. It had been thought it was first taken as a subject for painting in the Tang Dynasty.

This small painting--originally mounted as a hanging scroll--is the only snow scene among the few surviving works attributed to Tan ... Bamboo, and Plum in Chinese Painting (August 12, 2001 to ...

Invented in China around 300 B.C.E, the bamboo brush was originally intended solely for traditional calligraphy and ink painting styles. When grouped together with the inkstone, inkstick, and xuan ...