Chinese art is known for its paper and silk paintings made by the brush soaked in black or colored ink. On the other hand, Japanese art presents itself with a number of varieties, such as sculpture made by wood and bronze, ancient pottery, ink painting on silk and paper, oil painting, calligraphy etc.

The Mona Lisa’s Smile Da Vinci used optical illusion to create a unique smile through perspective and shadow work. Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa in such a way that the eyes of the Mona Lisa fall directly into the viewer’s focus, while the lips fall just below the periphery of vision.

The secret behind the Mona Lisa is that the “happy” part of her smile is actually buried in a low spatial frequency pattern. So if you’re not looking directly at her mouth, her smile looks cheerful. But when you look directly at her smile, parts of it disappear into the background.

They use both use bright colors for their landscape, flower and animal drawings in ceramic wares (“Chinese Art and Architecture” and “Japanese Art and Architecture”). They also often used five colors as new shades for their porcelains, which range from orange to green and gold.

As an ancient expressive art,Chinese calligraphyexpresses the abstract beauty of lines and rhythms through the organizational structure of lines and dots, while also reflecting a person’s emotions, moral integrity, character, educational level, accomplishments in self-cultivation, intellectual tastes and approach to …

The most famous calligraphers include Wen Zhengming (文徵明, 1470–1559), Zhu Yunming (祝允明, 1460–1527), and Wang Chong (王寵, 1494–1533), among others.

Basically, there are five major styles in Chinese calligraphy – Zuan, Li, Tsao, Hsin, and Kai. Each style has gone through changes and evolutions throughout Chinese history in terms of their character form and artistic styles and structures.