Oriental style

Japanese artist Maki Hino was born on may 4 on the evening of the full moon in Nagano Prefecture (Japan). Lives and works there. Maki started drawing paper dolls from early childhood. In 1993, she became interested in articulated dolls, and in 1997 decided that she would be engaged in dolls ...

Although it is the middle of July, fashion houses have already presented their fall/winter collections, because you should mend your sails while the weather is fine. We all know that many trends of this season bring us to the past: shoulder pads, bright neon colors, punk style and so on. That is why ...

Abdulrahman Eid is an artist and miniaturist. A Syrian by origin, he now lives and works in Saudi Arabia, in one of the most ancient and prosperous cities of the region — Jeddah. Inspired by the old districts, the artist decided to create a copy of one of the streets. It was this project that made ...

Look at those elegant embroidered brooches made by amazing Jiaran Studio, China. Embroiderers presented us a wide range of shapes and patterns. In the form of Eastern fans, flowers of round or square shapes. Enchanting patterns have been designed for these tiny works. It may be stylized floral ...

I'm used to the old name: the State Museum of Oriental Art, but in recent years the museum's name has changed, now it's just the Museum of the East. Once the museum was located on the Obuh street, and now on Nikitsky Boulevard. Once I couldn't take my eyes from the incredible ...

I told you about the tools used by Chinese artists (ink, brushes, paper), how they frame finished paintings. The question arises: well, how do the paintings differ? Answer: the difference is almost everywhere! Let's begin with the things that are immediately evident. On a Chinese painting in ...

The Europeans are accustomed that a picture should be framed and hung on a wall. In the East it's different. Nowadays, of course, baguette has penetrated there, and you can see there paintings on walls, but the traditional way of presenting a painting in the form of a scroll is still used in ...

I want to present to you works of the graduate of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Yuan Xing Liang, who created amazing works inspired by the poem about the peach spring written in the 5th century. One fisherman fell asleep in the boat during fishing and found himself in a strange place, where the ...

Today I want to tell you about one of the most fashionable and exotic styles in modern interior design — the Moroccan style. What's behind it? This style came into fashion in Europe in the 1970s. It was first 'discovered' by the French, and no wonder — for 100 years, Morocco was a ...