Traditional Chinese painting (TCP) is the gem of Chinese traditional arts. More and more TCP images are digitized and exhibited on the Internet. Effectively browsing and retrieving them is an important problem that needs to be addressed. Gongbi (traditional Chinese realistic painting) and Xieyi (freehand style) are two basic types of traditional Chinese paintings. This paper proposes a scheme t...

During the past year the Museum's collection of Islamic art has been greatly enriched by several important purchases, gifts, and bequests. The bequest of twenty ceramics and two Persian rugs by Horace Havemeyer has already been discussed in a separate Bulletin article (May I957). One of the most notable additions was the Cora Timken Burnett Bequest of Persian miniatures and other art objects, w...

Parataxis is the main grammatical feature of Chinese sentences while hypotaxis is the main grammatical feature of English. Similarly, Chinese classical paintings stress on the psychological harmony of subject-object unity and Western classical paintings on extrinsic form. It is found that the aesthetic thinking of classical painting is reflected in English and Chinese syntactic structure.

CalliMusic, is a system developed for users to generate traditional Chinese music by writing Chinese ink brush calligraphy, turning the long-believed strong linkage between the two art forms with rich histories into reality. In addition to traditional calligraphy writing instruments (brush, ink and paper), a camera is the only addition needed to convert the motion of the ink brush into musical ...

Ink and Gold Tracing represents a unique distinctive approach within the realm of ceramic decorative art. Building upon foundation ink tones, artwork's colors are harmonized through incorporation red gold, resulting in more vibrant rich palette. The three strike balance that avoids excessive saturation heaviness, while exuding elegance sophistication, captivating observer. restrained use color ...

Ancient Chinese fresco painting has a long history and is one of the important art forms traditional painting. As genre in China, realistic always adhered to spirit times. This paper examines relationship between ancient modern painting, summarising artistic characteristics from three perspectives: composition, materials, technique style, exploring inheritance development on

Wet-in-wet flow effect is a famous phenomenon in Chinese ink paintings. In this paper, we propose a new two-stage algorithm to synthesize this renowned effect. Given a reference image, in the first stage, we render the reference image using a new color ink diffusion synthesis algorithm. This physically-based algorithm explores a new and more sensitive Kubelka-Munk (SK-M) equation. As a result, ...

Non-photorealistic rendering, or NPR, has emerged as an important field of computer graphics [1]. Most NPR methods attempt to create imagery mimicking a particular style produced by an artist. Several such styles have been investigated, including painting, watercolor, engraving, pen and ink, color pencil, charcoal, cartoon coloring, stippling, and loose sketching. Thus far, most published NPR a...