About This Course

Chinese Flower-and-Bird painting is an ancient form of art along with other kinds of Chinese art, this form of art has one of the most oriental characteristics and Chinese culture flavor in world culture treasure house. For thousands of years, Chinese Flower-and-Bird painting has left a large amount of valuable theoretical literatures and classical masterpieces in aesthetic theories and painting techniques. All of these are worthwhile to learn, to explore, to promote.

The online Chinese Flower-and-Bird Painting Classics Appreciation course is easy to learn, to understand and to get hands-on. This course is divided into two sections, Classic Appreciation and Painting techniques. While the teaching content in two sections intersect each other. During this course, we focuses on both technical and cognitive skills. As for the way of presentation, this course should be, as far as possible, simple and easy to understand. We will choose the most typical and classic works of Flower-and-Bird painting and relatively common painting themes. Also, we will introduce you by different styles of Chinese painting, traditional art principles, interpretations of individual cases, analysis of masterpieces, technique demonstrations, interactive communication and so on.

Course Staff

Staff Member #1

Han Lu 韩璐 is currently the Vice president of the School of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy at the China Academy of Art. He is a professor of ink painting, and a tutor for postgraduate students.  In addition to being a famous Chinese ink painter and scholar, he is also a poet and a propagator of Oriental painting and Calligraphy art.

Staff Member #2

Zhang Quan 张铨, born in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province in 1964, he graduated from Suzhou Arts and Crafts School in 1982, majoring in painting and stayed there to teach. In 1992, he graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of China Academy of Art. From 1992 to August 2004, he was a full-time painter in Suzhou Chinese Painting Academy. In 2004 In September, he was transferred to teach at the China Academy of Art. Now he is the deputy director, associate professor and master tutor of the Chinese Painting Department of the China Academy of Art, and a member of the China Artists Association.