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There is a Chinese legend which tells the story of the origin of silk - in the 27th century BCE a silk worms cocoon fell into the tea cup of the empress Leizu, the 14 year old wife of the Yellow Emperor. As she lifted out the cocoon it began to unravel and she was enthralled by this lovely soft thread.She found that by wrapping several threads together she could make a strong thread that could be woven and is credited with inventing the first loom and starting the production of silk.
It is believed that the Chinese introduced silk painting in the 27th century BCE (Before Current Era) and it remained exclusive to China until the Silk Road opened during the first millennium BC opening thousands of miles of interconnected trade routes across Asia, Africa and Europe.
The Chinese tried to keep the method of making silk to themselves and managed this for many years. Eventually the Japanese discovered their secret, managed to obtain silkworm eggs and silk production became widespread.
In India we can trace silk painting back to the 2nd century AD where the wax resist technique was used for decorating silks. During the Moghul era in the 17 - 19th centuries it was at its most popular with many wall hangings and portrait pictures being produced.
The Crusades (around 12th Century AD) brought silk to Western Europe and in particular Italy where new manufacturing techniques were developed and production boomed. The Industrial revolution in the 18th century where mechanisation of the textile industry made production of silk cheaper meant that silk became widely available worldwide and was at its most popular.
Of course all this was good news for silk painting. In Java the method of batik on silk, using wax as a resist was developed and during the Bolshevik revolution family members of the Russian Tzar, Nicholas II brought gutta to France where the serti technique was introduced in the 20th Century. By the 1970s silk painting had gained popularity in Britain and America.
Today silk painting is flourishing thanks partly to the many books now available and increasing numbers of craft suppliers who specialise in silk painting equipment.
If you are interested in silk painting and would like to know a bit more about it or even try some projects for yourself, please visit my website. This website offers silk painting patterns that you can print off right now. Please visit my site at http://www.silkpaintingpatterns.com/
About Xiang Jing - a Chinese Artist
Xiang Jing was born on 1968 in Beijing, China.From 1984 TO 1988 he was Student of the attached middle school of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing.In 1990 - 1995 Xiang Jing attained a Bachelor Degree from the Sculpture Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing and he currently lives and works in Shanghai
Xiang Jing’s eerily life-like sculptures confront the viewer with a duplicitous engagement with outward appearance and inner psychology. Xiang’s works range from the larger than life to miniature; cast in bronze or polyurethane, they draw from a classical tradition and aesthetic to portray the experiences of contemporary women. Her works depicting teenagers clubbing, shopping, and primping offer a veneer of generic beauty, sparsely accessorised with synthetic looking props and latest fashion trends; their appearance of mundane innocence is contradicted through their expressions of violence, depression, and malaise. Towering over the viewer as a goddess-like effigy, her vacant gaze projects downward with oppressive force: her nakedness and vulnerability evoking a self-contemplative reflection of inadequacy, humility and emptiness.
Xiang's value lies not only in her uncanny ability to replicate the facial movements, the gestures, the physical tick that accompany a particular psychological mood, but also in her capacity to augment these psychological states by ingenious props - a cushion and a bright blue bow for a coquettish girl, a tall skinny stood upon which to crouch for a satirically reflective woman smoking on a long, skinny cigarette. In addition to props, Xiang pays meticulous attention to the materials she uses and the ensuing surfaces. In Your Body, Xiang presents a gigantic nude. Fabricated from painted fibreglass, the figure is unnerving in detail, her expertly faux finished skin radiating a sickly, waxen pallor. Shorn headed, and slumped on a simple wooden chair, her subjective doll-like presence reflects the epitome of emotional depletion.
Selected Exhibitions:-
2006
• You’re Body - Xiang Jing 2000-2005, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2005
• Keep In Silence, China Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing, China
2003
• Women In The Mirror, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China
• Art of Xiang Jing, Tuan Cheng Gallery, Beijing, China
2001
• Day Dream – Solo Exhibition, Ivy Bookstore, Shanghai, China
Conclusions:
Xiang Jing's sculpture is their expressiveness they are wistful, critical, languorous, reflective, and melancholic - they encompass and embody virtually every human emotion. . He had already exhibited some of good arts in his own style and the impact of the work had won him a strong reputation in Chinese art circles
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If you want any information about Xiang Jing or looking for his paintings please visit us on http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/xiang_jing.htm
About the Author
View Xiang Jing paintings, biography, solo exhibitions, group exhibitions and resource of Xiang Jing artist. View art online at The Saatchi Gallery - London contemporary art gallery. Xiang Jing
I have 8 miniature ornamental Chinese figures holding scrolls, swords, knitting, parcels, etc.?
and I want to know what symbols they are of: I think 2 of them represent prosperity and knowledge/wisdom, longevity (the white goatee cum beard) but what culture, religion, tradition are they from? Thank you in advance.
3 could be women cradling a baby or something.
Not all have benevolent looks on their faces.
Okay I'm changing Chinese to Oriental... if u cud guess at it, that would also be great.
8 is a recurring number in Chinese and Japanese myths, as it is considered as a aupiscious number, symbolizing prosperity. Unless you can upload pictures of the figurines, it is going to be difficult for anyone to identify the deities/gods/meanings that they represent. The ones that is off my head is the Chinese 8 immortals, consisting of a scholar wearing a sword, a young man playing a flute, a lame beggar with crutches, man in official robes, a young man carrying a basket of flowers (often mistaken as a girl), a fat man with belly exposed ( holding a fan), a elderly man with white beards (often depicted riding a donkey) and an elegant lady.
Japanese also have their own 8 auspicious gods.
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