Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: TRADITIONAL CHINESE PAINTING

Department: Asian Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the significance of the brushwork in traditional Chinese painting as performance, as expression of artistic personality, and as a system of gestures borrowed from the art of calligraphy. We will consider how historically shifting understanding of the brushwork served to express diverse aesthetic, social, and cultural concerns. Cross-list: HART 371.