Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700 - 1900

Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London
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This event ended on Sunday 19th of January 2014
Admission
Adult: £13.40
Concs: £9.20
Child: free
Venue Information
V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Cromwell Road, South Kensington, SW7 2RL
Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
South Kensington 0.20 miles

Presenting one of the world’s greatest artistic traditions, Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700 - 1900 will be a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see rare surviving works of art drawn from collections around the world. Explore over 70 of the finest examples of Chinese painting, from small-scale intimate works by monks and literati through to a 14-metre-long scroll painting, many of which are shown together for the first time.

Charting the evolving styles and subjects of painting over a 1200 year period, the exhibition includes figure paintings on silk for religious sites, landscape painting and the introduction of Western influences. A significant number of these masterpieces have never been exhibited in the UK before, from banners, albums and scrolls created for a variety of settings to the materials that reveal the traditional process and techniques of painting on silk.

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