Those qualities began to emerge very clearly during the Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.), when Chinese artisans perfected the manufacture of the basic materials still used by calligraphers today: ...

sometimes abstract variations on traditional Chinese ink painting." Last year, an oil painting of his from the 1970s fetched more than $23 million at auction in Beijing. Above, you can view 10 of the ...

Christie’s has described the Song dynasty (960-1279) artwork as “one of the world’s rarest Chinese paintings”. Entitled Wood and Rock, the ink-on-paper handscroll depicts a dragon-like old ...

The exhibition takes the form of a city walk that follows Qi throughout the course of a year to the restaurants where he ...

His now-iconic "Famine Sketches", drawn on cheap packing paper, immortalised the suffering of a people forgotten by their ...