According to some writers the concept of a distinct category of fine art is an invention of the early modern period in the West. Larry Shiner in his The Invention of Art: A Cultural History
(2003) locates the invention in the 18th century: "There was a
traditional “system of the arts” in the West before the eighteenth
century. (Other traditional cultures still have a similar system.) In
that system, an artist or artisan was a skilled maker or practitioner, a
work of art was the useful product of skilled work, and the
appreciation of the arts was integrally connected with their role in the
rest of life. “Art,” in other words, meant approximately the same thing
as the Greek word techne, or in English “skill”, a sense that has
survived in phrases like “the art of war,” “the art of love,” and “the
art of medicine.”[4] Similar ideas have been expressed by Paul Oskar Kristeller, Pierre Bourdieu, and Terry Eagleton (e.g. The Ideology of the Aesthetic), though the point of invention is often placed earlier, in the Italian Renaissance.
The separation of arts and crafts that often exists in Europe and the US is not shared by all other cultures. In Japanese aesthetics the activities of everyday life are depicted by integrating not only art with craft but man-made with nature. Traditional Chinese art distinguished within Chinese painting between the mostly landscape literati painting of scholar gentlemen
and the artisans of the schools of court painting and sculpture. A high
status was also given to many things that would be seen as craft
objects in the West, in particular ceramics, jade carving, weaving, and embroidery. Latin American art was dominated by European colonialism until the 20th-century, when indigenous art began to reassert itself inspired by the Constructivist Movement, which reunited arts with crafts based upon socialist principles.
Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Except in the case of monotyping,
the process is capable of producing multiples of the same piece, which
is called a print. Each print is considered an original, as opposed to a
copy. The reasoning behind this is that the print is not a reproduction
of another work of art
in a different medium — for instance, a painting — but rather an image
designed from inception as a print. An individual print is also referred
to as an impression. Prints are created from a single original surface,
known technically as a matrix. Common types of matrices include: plates of metal, usually copper or zinc for engraving or etching; stone, used for lithography; blocks of wood for woodcuts, linoleum for linocuts and fabric in the case of screen-printing. But there are many other kinds, discussed below. Multiple nearly identical prints can be called an edition.
In modern times each print is often signed and numbered forming a
"limited edition." Prints may also be published in book form, as artist's books. A single print could be the product of one or multiple techniques.
Calligraphy
Main article: Calligraphy
Folio from a Koran (8–9th century), Abbasid Kufic Calligraphy
Calligraphy is a type of visual art. It is often called the art of fancy lettering A contemporary definition of calligraphic practice is "the art of
giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner".
Modern calligraphy ranges from functional hand-lettered inscriptions
and designs to fine-art pieces where the abstract expression of the
handwritten mark may or may not compromise the legibility of the
letters.
Classical calligraphy differs from typography and non-classical
hand-lettering, though a calligrapher may create all of these;
characters are historically disciplined yet fluid and spontaneous,
improvised at the moment of w
Under 45 years of age, and with good health status.
Certificate of HSK
HSK level 5 (HSK level 3 required for the
major of teaching Chinese as foreign language ). Without certificate
students could be academic probation.
2. Photocopy of valid passport
With name, passport number & expiration date, and photo included
3. Passport photo
A recent passport-sized photo of the applicant
4. High school academic transcript
5. High school graduate certificate
Graduation certificate in languages other
than Chinese or English should be translated into Chinese or English and
be certified by notarization.
6. Letter of guarantee
The guardian should write out his/her name,
nationality, occupation and address (if an organization acts as the
guardian, reference to the organization should be made clear).
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