painted bottle

This painted bottle is a special category of art. The artist has to adopt a reverse angle operation, that is, "view picture from the front but do it from the opposite side." The brush hook stretching into the small bottle is a special pen, which requires tremendous skill in painting and calligraphy with a keen sense of art. Like Chinese traditional painting, bottle painting requires a sense of composition, mood, colors, seals and other inscriptions. Despite the small space inside the snuff bottle, the picture is filled with colorful spirits, thus winning the hearts of many art collectors of all ages.

Interview: Yang Zhigang: "I came into the Art Factory at the end of 1981. In March or April of 1982, I became a student of my master. It has been 29 years to date."

Yang’s teacher is Liu Shouben, a master craftsman of Chinese contemporary art and representative of Beijing inner painting. It was one of his snuff bottles that Queen Elizabeth II received during her visit to China in 1986. During China's first Olympic bid in 1993, Liu gave a live performance as the representative of Chinese folk artists in Monte Carlo.