First, "A Discerning Eye: The Aoyama San'u Collection, " works of ancient Chinese painting and calligraphy from Aoyama's private holdings.
Some of his best frocks had what looked like Mexican embroidery but were digital floral prints taken from a Chinese painting.
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Ushered into the living room by the secretary after a quarter of an hour, Husna gazed around her, as petitioners do, more tense than curious, taking in the worn gold brocade on the sofa, a large Chinese painting of horsemen over the rosewood mantel.
Peruse texts on Chinese ink painting and you will inevitably come across Dong Qichang (1555-1636), or Tung Ch'i-ch'ang as some transliterate his name.
The apparent disorder of his paintings concealed an underlying structure, sometimes described as Daoist in nature, which bore striking parallels to a similar balance between order and chaos found in Chinese traditional painting.
While they are still painting for the Chinese, his audience has changed.
Such literati painting became emblematic of Chinese culture, and several works in the last gallery attest to Dong's posthumous influence on the taste of Qing art patrons.
Shows at the new gallery have included contemporary Chinese and Middle Eastern art and American abstract painting and sculpture.
As a result, exhibitions of Chinese art sometimes include the occasional "Northern" painting but rarely showcase them exclusively.
Chinese commentators fear the effect on public order, painting a picture of bands of testosterone-crazed youths roaming the countryside, raising hell.
In his 1973 memoir Pigeon's Luck, the artist said he had put his "heart and soul" into a painting he hoped had "caught the essence of Chinese womanhood".
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