The 555 Artworks of media Silk and containing the word koon wai, bong, silk, 2000

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Shiming Hao - Distant MountainsDistant MountainsShiming Hao

Hao Shiming1977 Born in Heze, Shangdong Province, China2000 Graduated from the Department of Traditional Chinese Painting, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts2011 Studied for a master’s degree at the Capital Normal UniversityNow lives and works in Beijing and Wuhan SOLO EXHIBITION2015Focus -Hao Shiming,Had...

China Modern and Contemporary Art Document Research Center (Beijing, China)
 
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Utagawa Hiroshige - Woman Walking in the SnowWoman Walking in the SnowUtagawa Hiroshige

In his prints, Hiroshige used the unprinted white paper to represent snow, a technique also exploited in this painting, in which unpainted silk, reserved against the pale ink wash, suggests the snow-covered areas. Slightly bleeding ink creates the impression of fluffy snow, and snowflakes were rende...

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Madeleine Bottet - Evening DressEvening DressMadeleine Bottet

The dress was made of rayon jersey, treated in bias cut to fit around the body. The surrounding sash has the effect of highlighting the sleek body. The dress is from Madeleine Vionnet/

The Kyoto Costume Institute (Kyoto, Japan)
 
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Xia Gui - Windswept lakeshoreWindswept lakeshoreXia Gui

The Southern Song artist, eschewing the Northern Song monumental landscape traditions of 'a hundred peaks and ten thousand trees,' viewed nature through the microcosm of a single pair of trees and one or two rocks suspended in an infinite void. In this scene of unbounded space, vigorous wet-ink line...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
 
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Ding Yanyong - Summer MountainsSummer MountainsDing Yanyong

Between the years 900 and 1100, Chinese paint­ers created visions of landscape that depicted the sublimity of creation. Viewers are meant to identify with the human figures in these paintings. In Summer Mountains, travelers make their way toward a temple retreat. The central mountain sits in command...

 
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Ryūshū Shūtaku - Kongara-dojiKongara-dojiRyūshū Shūtaku

The famous Zen monk Myōtaku (Ryūshū Shūtaku) produced many paintings and prints of Fudō Myōō and his attendants Seitaka Dōji and Kongara Dōji. This painting illustrates Kongara Dōji and probably formed a triptych with Fudō and Seitaka.

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Elizabeth Hawes (American, B.1903, D.1971) - Dress and SlipDress and SlipElizabeth Hawes (American, B.1903, D.1971)

In 1928, when Elizabeth Hawes opened her salon in New York City, American women looked to Paris for couture garments, and American designers were copying the designs of the French couturiers. Hawes, however, constructed her designs to fit her clients/

Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, United States)
 
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Tang Yun - Landscape after a poem by Wang WeiLandscape after a poem by Wang WeiTang Yun

Tang Di was one of the first southern scholar-artists to revive the Northern Song landscape traditions of the tenth and eleventh centuries, and this composition is typical of the many large-scale works he produced in emulation of northern prototypes. While Northern Song masters were inclined to depi...

 
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Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani - Evening dressEvening dressValentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani

A-line, floor-length Evening dress in black silk gazar; round neckline; 3/4 length flared raglan sleeves; center front and back seams; tightly pleated bias-cut white organza ruffle at sleeve openings and hem; organza bow at apex; center back zipper closure; black silk lining. Label, in ink on twill ...

Museum of the City of New York (New York, United States)
 

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