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2025 Academic Year Short Course Review 「Colors of the Silk Road: Mineral Pigment Painting in Buddhist Art」
From 21 July to 2 August 2025, the course “Colors of the Silk Road: Mineral Pigment Painting in Buddhist Art” was held at the Yuan Centre. This course included instruction in both the theory and practice of mineral-colour mural painting as a key element of Dunhuang art. The course was taught by…
2025 學年「自然界的秩序：幾何設計原理」短期課程回顧
From 5– 16thMay2025, students took part in a practical geometry workshop entitled“The Order of Nature: Geometrical Design Principles”guided by the tutor Katya Nosyreva at Yuan Centre.During the workshop, the students explored architectural patterns along the Silk Roads, from 9-15th centuries. They…
2025 Academic Year Short Course Review 「Design Principles Applied to Wood Products：Marquetry with Veneers」
From 7-18 July, the course “Design Principles Applied to Wood Products： Marquetry with Veneers” was delivered under the guidance of Artist Chris Riederer at KFSTA China Centre.This two-week course introduced students to the craft of marquetry– wood veneer decoration. Marquetry techniques have been…
2025 Academic Year Short Course Review 「Geometry of Space」
From 19 to 23 May, the course "Geometry of Space" was delivered by the artist Adam Williamson in KFSTA China Centre, Suzhou.Tutor Adam Williamson has demonstrated regular and semi-regular polyhedra through geometric sketching and constructing models with sticks and strings.Through learning the…
2025 Academic Year Short Course Review 「Construction of Paradise：Principles of the Chinese Classical Garden」
A path embraces secluded mountains, unexpectedly nestled within the city.Amid the gentle blossoming of spring, the course “Construction of Paradise：Principles of the Chinese Classical Garden ”，taught by Master Ye Fang, concluded successfully as part of the 2024-2025 preparatory and advanced studies…
2025 Academic Year Short Course Review 「The Order of Nature: Geometrical Design Principles」
From 5– 16thMay2025, students took part in a practical geometry workshop entitled“The Order of Nature: Geometrical Design Principles”guided by the tutor Katya Nosyreva at Yuan Centre.During the workshop, the students explored architectural patterns along the Silk Roads, from 9-15th centuries. They…
2025 Academic Year Short Course Review 「Give Form to Myriad Things: Calligraphy」
From 17 March to 28 March 2025, students from the King's Foundation School of Traditional Arts China Centre completed a two-week course on "Give Form to Myriad Things:Cal-ligraphy" under the guidance of Tutor Jia Qin, a researcher at the The China Institute for Visual Studies at the China Academy…
2025 Academic Year Short Course Review「Design Principles Applied to Ceramic Tiles: The Marriage of Geometry and Biomorph」
The module “Design Principles Applied to Ceramic Tiles: The Marriage of Geometry and Biomorph”was delivered by Nooshin Shafiei from the King's Foundation School of Traditional Arts at Yuan Centre on 3- 14 March.The main objective of the module was introducing students to experience the expressions…
2025 Academic Year Short Course Review 「Principles of The Buddhist Figure」
In the first week, under the guidance of Jamyang Lodro Rin-poche, the 47th Lineage Master of the Jonang sect of Tibetan Buddhism, students studied related Jonang artworks on view at the Jinze Art Centre to gain an understanding of the art and philosophy of Buddhist portraiture. After that,…