Week 9: Teacher’s Choice Proposal

This is one of the most famous Chinese traditional paintings collected by the Palace Museum, Beijing. The name of this painting is  “Night Revels of Han Xizai”, and the artist’s name is Hongzhong Gu who was living in the Southern Tang during the period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907-960 AD).

When thinking about what should I choose for my twins, I remembered that the reason why they come to me to learn art. Maybe because they have half Asian blood, they are very interested in Asian Culture, especially Chinese and Japanese. They like Chinese traditional painting so much, so I think they will be certainly attracted by this painting.

The whole painting is a long scroll painting. It has five parts, every part has a particular scene. I choose the first scene, it describes Han Xizai and his friend were listening to a Chinese traditional musical instrument----Pi Pa.  And as the Yenawine’s guidelines recommend, this piece also has stories artist intended, diversity, realism and series and theme so this painting is worth dealing with. I think they will like the story and I believe they will have some interesting narratives from their rich imaginations.