Guge Frescoes

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Guge Frescoes

The major colors used in the frescoes in Guge and Tholing Monastery are red, orange and yellow, together with big areas of rock black and rock green colors. The aesthetic effect is close to that of the Dunhuang frescoes: sublimity mixed with elegance, symmetry with harmony, feminity with masculinity, melancholy with heroism, and sublimity with romanticism. Compared with Donggua frescoes that use direct color stipples and batik-styled painting, Guge frescoes present a delicacy of brush strokes and a beauty of black inf framing that is like the free expressing of implication in the traditional Chinese painting. These frescoes clearly present the pious religious feelings of the painters who are describing the Buddha in their hearts. more details about Guge Frescoes