Established 1978
Just Paintings
Kent's best stocked gallery
Oriental 1
Oriental paintings covers such a wide range of work.
The majority are the traditional Chinese paintings on silk as shown
on this page. Also in stock are Tang Dynasty style paintings on silk,
paintings on art silk, paintings on cork paper, brushwash paintings
on paper, embroidered bamboo scrolls, collages of wheat straw, even
wood block prints of door gods.
Many
oriental paintings tell a story through the elements used in the image.
Particular items have very specific meanings like chrysanthemum, which
is the flower of mid autumn and is a symbol of joviality, the butterfly
is the Chinese cupid, and the crane is a symbol of long life reportedly
living for 600 years.
One important factor with oriental paintings
is that they only paint the subject, so nothing else can
distract the eye like a distant hill or village. This simplification
of the painting makes them more delicate than European paintings,
which by comparison are very objective in depicting everything in
view.
The Old Bakery,
Wrotham
Road,
Meopham,
Gravesend DA13 0QB,
Kent, UK.
Tel: 01474 813813
Monday to
Friday
9.30 till 5.00
Sunday 10 till 4.00
(except Bank Holiday weekends)
These paintings and similar subjects are available
for sale.
Click on photograph for larger image.
5 beauties with tenko cranes 30"x20" silk
100 birds 17½" diameter silk
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