Ancient Chinese Dragons - What is the Style of Art Called?!?!?!
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What does one call this style of art? I'm assuming is something other than "ancient Chinese," but I can't find any information on the style itself anywhere, and Wikipedia just wants to tell me about dragon style fighting.
I'm talking about shit like this...
[img]http://www.chinesedragon.org.uk/chinese_dragon_pics/chinese_dragon_2.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.draconika.com/img/chinese-dragon-black.jpg[/img]
I've been looking forever and I'm at a loss. :suicide:
Looking for what the style is by searching "dragon style" is pretty dumb...The dragon is a divinity in Asia, it's like searching "God with a bunch of gold painting" when you're looking for Baroque era art.
Dragon worship is pretty common in Asia, and all countries got different dragons, and inside of each country there are several types of dragons. Not to mention some of those aren't real dragons, but rather snake-ish or pythonesque creatures.
If you're looking for long and scaled dragons, you might rather want to take a look at vietnamese dragon and their representation during the Lê Dynasty. Japanese art also features this kind of dragon.
You might still want to look into Chinese art, starting from the Han Dynasty era.
I'm not looking for the dragons specifically, I'm looking for the style, it's just the first thing that popped into my head since they're the most common subject portrayed in the style. No need to fiend for wins.
The reason I'm looking for it is because I have this book I bought in France full of the stuff, but I'm not very good at reading French, or speaking it for the matter. I have this book full of awesome art and it was bugging me that I could take in the photos but I couldn't read anything about the history. In retrospect I could've just used Google translator or something. :downs:
Thanks for the help.
You could PM me the text, I mostly speak Italian, but I can speak French too.
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