By Joseph D'Addetta

The extensive vocabulary of design motifs in Chinese art is based on four timeless principles: spirit, rhythm, life, and movement. True Chinese design is never meaningless ornamentation. Its exquisitely beautiful combinations of blossoms and sprays, birds, animals, inscribed medallions and symmetrical designs are artistic puzzles in which words and syllables are represented by pictures or symbols. These designs are remarkable for their subtlety, finesse, spontaneity, skill, and, most importantly, for their enduring beauty. Noted artist Joseph D'Addetta offers his own careful and sensitive pen renderings of motifs taken from first-rate examples of Chinese objets d'art in leading museums and private collections. The book includes 284 outstanding and copyright-free black and white motifs.

100 Pages; Softcover

Published in 1981 by Dover Publications, Inc.