http://feitian.haipeng.org Traditional Chinese Art Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:55:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en These two paintings are originally located on the ceilings in Mogao Grottos. One is called “Three-Rabbit Fei Tian”, the other one is called “Lotus Fei Tian”. The paintings themselves have the size of 1.5 m × 1.5 m. The design is very clever, for both of ... http://feitian.haipeng.org/archives/18 Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907) has been commonly recognized as the most economically and politically prosperous time in Chinese history. However, when you look at the Fei Tian features painted in Tang Dynasty, you will surprisingly find out that they are most over-weighted. In the paintings, ... http://feitian.haipeng.org/archives/14 So far you have seen several Fei Tian paintings made by Xingru Fan, a very influential artist who is pursuing the Chinese traditional painting. His specialty is to classify, copy with adorning, polish, and organize Fei Tian and Buddhists feature in Dunhuang murals. Xingru loved ... http://feitian.haipeng.org/archives/12 Among Western Wei Feitian features, there is a special kind, the nude Feitian. These features appeared in Dunhuang murals for a short period of time, ~70 years and then disappeared. It was said that the nude Feitian in Dunhuang murals was under the influence of western ... http://feitian.haipeng.org/archives/11 Feitians in Western Wei have their unique styles. They somehow carried the trace of Impressionism. The use of color seemed very critical, especially for the green, blue and grey. The overall tone of color tended to be cold. The bright red color was rarely used. In ... http://feitian.haipeng.org/archives/4 In the famous Dunhuang Murals, there are thousands of flying features which are called "Feitian". These flying features are commonly accepted as oriental angels. They often showed up in the huge Buddhists' ceremonies sending out flowers, fragments, playing music, or performing dance. They dressed up gorgeously and they looked delighted ... http://feitian.haipeng.org/archives/3