"When I first walked in here after the citadel was vacated in 2005, I was so horrified I backed out again," Zafer Han, an art historian with the Diyarbakir Museum, said during a tour of the site this month.
There, as in the Han dynasty art that followed, landscape is suggested by rhythmic lines, which serve as mountain contours to organize spatially a variety of wild animals in front and back and which, while structurally simple, convey in linear fashion a sophisticated concept of mountain landscape as fluid, dynamic, and spiritual.
Thus, there was an interaction between the various media of Han dynasty arts that accounts for their unity of style.
The Zhuocang Tibetans learnt from the Han the arts and technology of dressmaking, embroidery, and shoemaking.
It is han bok, not han dok.
Into that void comes the first major exhibit on the Qur'an in the US, The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, at the Sackler Gallery in Washington DC.
Into that void comes the first major exhibit on the Qur'an in the United States, The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, at the Sackler Gallery in Washington DC.
For her contributions to art, Han was conferred the Cultural Medallion for Art in 1995.
He also founded i/O Lab with Yao Chung-Han, a sound art organization that is becoming increasingly well-known in the region.
