Manlio Gaddi
CHEN XIAOHONG. PITTURA GONGBI

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“It is difficult for those accustomed to the canons of Western art, with its subjects and perspectives born of Piero della Francesca, to understand at first glance the spirit that animates Chinese painting, which belongs to another world, of which it maintains a the primordial spirit is still unchanged today, respecting techniques and subjects. In order to understand the work of the painter Xiaohong, it is necessary to have at least some elements that make it possible to read and interpret it. The foundation of Chinese painting is constituted by the famous “Six principles of painting “, defined for the first time by Hsieh Ho, in his famous treatise Ku Hua P’in Lu (which can be translated as Ancient chronicle of the classification of painters) written at the end of the 5th century AD. The first, which is undoubtedly the most important because it contains the essence of all Chinese pictorial art … ” (Manlio Gaddi)