“Chinese lacquerwares must break through, or it will perish.” said the painter of the modern lacquer painting, Tang Zhiyu. Fuzhou Lacquerwares, Once Sparkling and Splendid ...

An exhibition featuring 165 pieces of lacquer paintings from 92 artists was held in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, on August 1. Developed in the 1930s, Chinese lacquer painting is a new branch of ...

Lyu Xiqin, a young craftsman, has immersed himself in lacquer art, an ancient Chinese artistic tradition, for 10 years. ... with lacquer painting its derivative. As a raw material, ...

Artist Zhang Gaojun introduces his Chinese painting “Fishing Capital in the Rain,” in Zhoushan, East China’s Zhejiang Province, on June 28, 2024.

Creating a lacquer object, such as the Chinese Han cup, is a very painstaking and time-consuming process with many thin layers of lacquer being applied with special tools to a wooden core.