Zhe School

(noun)

A school of painters that was part of the Southern School, which thrived during the Ming Dynasty and was known for its formal, academic, and conservative outlook.

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Examples of Zhe School in the following topics:

  • Painting under the Ming Dynasty

    • The dominant style of the Ming court painters was called the Zhe School.
    • In particular, the Zhe School and the Yuanti School were the dominant schools during the early Ming period.
    • The painters of the Zhe School did not formulate a new distinctive style, preferring instead to further the style of the Southern Song and specializing in large and decorative paintings, most often of landscapes.
    • The classical Zhe School and Yuanti School began to decline during the mid-Ming period.
    • Identify the time period and innovations of the Zhe, Yuanti, Wu, Wongjang, and Huating Schools of painting during the Ming dynasty

  • Kanō School Painting in the Edo Period

    • The Kanō School, which had a naturalistic style, was the dominant style of the Edo period (1603 - 1868).
    • The Kanō School (狩) was the dominant style of painting during the Edo period.
    • Kanō Motonobu, a Japanese painter and member of the Kano School, is particularly known for expanding the school's repertoire through his bold artistic techniques and patronage.
    • Although the Kanō School was the most successful in Japan, the distinctions between its work and the work of other schools tended to diminish over time, as all schools worked in a range of styles and formats, making the attribution of unsigned works often unclear.
    • Tan'yū headed the Kajibashi branch of the Kanō School in Edo and painted in many castles, including the Imperial palace.

  • Chicago School of Architecture

    • Chicago's architecture is famous throughout the world and one style is referred to as the Chicago School.
    • In the history of architecture, the Chicago School was a school of architects active in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century.
    • Sometimes elements of neoclassical architecture are used in Chicago School skyscrapers.
    • Many Chicago School skyscrapers contain the three parts of a classical column.
    • The "Chicago window" originated in this school.

  • Training Artists

    • In the current Western artistic tradition, artists typically train at an art school or institution.
    • In the current Western artistic tradition, artists typically train at an art school or institution.
    • Artists who did not attend art school are generally termed "self-taught," and go about their practice in the same manner as artists who attended art school, by aiming to exhibit and sell their work.
    • Goldsmiths' College in London is one example of an art school.
    • Compare and contrast traditional artists' aprenticeships with modern day art schools.

  • Dutch Rationalist Architecture

    • The Amsterdam School is a style of architecture that lasted from 1910 to 1930, with the aim of creating a total architectural experience.
    • The Amsterdam School (Dutch: Amsterdamse School) is a style of architecture that arose in 1910 and lasted until about 1930 in The Netherlands.
    • Imbued with socialist ideals, the Amsterdam School style was often applied to working-class housing estates, local institutions and schools.
    • The Amsterdam School had its origins in the office of architect Eduard Cuypers in Amsterdam.
    • The most important architects and virtuoso artists of the Amsterdam School were Michel de Klerk and Piet Kramer.

  • Art of Pure Land Buddhism

    • The art of the Kamakura period reflected the introduction of the Pure Land School of Buddhism, which depicted the Amida Buddha.
    • This period saw the introduction of the two schools that had perhaps the greatest impact on the country: the Amidist Pure Land schools and the more philosophical Zen schools.  
    • The Kamakura period favored a more realistic and naturalistic art that is exemplified by the sculpture of the Kei School.
    • Among sculptors of the Kei school, the sculptor Unkei is the most famous and is considered to be the most accomplished sculptor of the period.
    • Compare and contrast the art of the Pure Land, Zen, and Kei schools of the Kamakura period.

  • American Painting: The Ashcan School

    • The Ashcan School was a movement within American Realism known for portraying scenes of daily life in New York's poorer neighborhoods.
    • The Ashcan School, also known as "The Eight," was central to the new American Modernism in the visual arts.
    • Five artists of The Eight, William Glackens, Robert Henri, George Luks, Everett Shinn, and John French Sloan became associated with the Ashcan School.
    • However, the Ashcan School was not an organized group.
    • The artists of the Ashcan School rebelled against American Impressionism, which was the vanguard of American art at the time.

  • Rajput Painting of the Mughal Period

    • These four schools are the Mewar school, the Marwar school, the Hadoti school, and the Dhundar school.
    • The Marwar school is associated with the courts of Kishangarh, Bikaner, Jodhpur, Nagaur, Pali, and Ghanerao courts.
    • This style consists of two schools: the Basohli school and the Kangra school.
    • An example of Pahari painting from the Kangra school dated between 1775–1780.
    • This is a good example of portraiture in the Rajput style and of the Mewar School's work.

  • Chinese Literati Expressionism under the Ming Dynasty

    • The Southern School of Chinese painting, often known as "literati painting," is a term used to denote art and artists that stand in opposition to the formal Northern School of painting.
    • Where formal and professional painters were classified as Northern School, scholar-bureaucrats, who had either retired from the professional world or who had never been a part of it, constituted the Southern School.
    • Never a formal school of art in the sense of artists training under a single master in a single studio, the Southern School is more of an umbrella term spanning a great breadth across both geography and chronology.
    • However, the coining of the term "Southern School" is said to have been made by the scholar-artist Dong Qichang (1555–1636), who borrowed the concept from Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism, which also has Northern and Southern Schools.
    • While this sort of landscape with certain features and elements is the standard stereotypical Southern School painting, the genre actually varied quite widely in rejecting the formal strictures of the Northern School.

  • New York

    • The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York.
    • The New York School (which is most often associated with abstract expressionist painting) was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City.
    • The New York School, which fostered the development of the abstract expressionist style of the 1950s was documented through a series of artists' committee invitational exhibitions commencing with the Ninth Street Art Exhibition in 1951 and followed by consecutive exhibitions through 1957.
    • In spite of the public interest exhibited toward the Ninth Street Show, there were few galleries willing to accept the works of the New York School artists who were unknown to traditional art criticism.
    • Still was one of the leading figures of the New York School of abstract expressionism.