The Charming Cicada Studio: Masterworks by Chao Shao-an

by Terese Tse Bartholomew

Kazuhiro Tsuruta (Illustrator)

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Chao Shao-an is especially noted for his talent in depicting birds, flowers, and insects. The renowned living master of the Lingnan school, an early in 20th-century movement to modernize Chinese painting, Chao Shao-an now lives in Hong Kong. The 80 paintings illustrated in this handsome volume include album studies, water buffalo, great bursts of azaleas, landscapes, and a portrait. The works are arranged chronologically within subject category, and represent a personal assessment of his achievements in visual effects, pictorial concepts, and scale. They record the artist's convictions about Chinese painting of the modem age and the Lingnan school.
  • ISBN10 093911710X
  • ISBN13 9780939117109
  • Publish Date 1 April 1997
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 3 October 2009
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Washington Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 192
  • Language English