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Learn about open access resources for research and teaching for learners of Chinese art history at all stages. The Association for Chinese Art History (ACAH) was established in 2022 to promote communication and community among scholars of Chinese art and architectural history and the visual cultures of global and diasporic Chinas.
This paper is one facet of a larger, longer term research project undertaken in collaboration with the National Library and Archives of Bhutan that seeks to identify, examine and analyze those individual artists whose creations provide key touchstones to Bhutanese art history.
Bhutan is a small mountainous country with dense forest regions amidst which a culturally rich civilization thrives. It is landlocked between India, China , and Tibet (now an autonomous region of China).
The Kingdom of Bhutan lies in the eastern Himalayas, between Tibet and India. It is a country famous for its art. While Bhutanese painting and sculpture rely heavily on Tibetan art as a model, the textile art is indigenous, and it is the foremost artistic expression of Bhutan.
Bhutanese art (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་པའི་སྒྱུ་རྩལ) is similar to Tibetan art. Both are based upon Vajrayana Buddhism and its pantheon of teachers and divine beings. The major orders of Buddhism in Bhutan are the Drukpa Lineage and the Nyingma.
The early seventeenth-century wall paintings betray strong Chinese influence, and feature the complex use of selective organic coatings typical of Bhutanese art of this period, particularly apparent on the detailing around the clouds and on the flesh (a).
28 sie 2020 · Bhutan is the only country in the world to adopt Vajrayana, or Tantric Buddhism, as its official religion, and the particular form of Buddhism found in Bhutan permeates all aspects of culture and the arts.
