In Chinese opera, the masks help the audience instantly recognize ... male spiders might use their patterns and colors to tell a female spider they're the same species and are a viable mate ...

In Peking opera, there are four main types of roles: sheng (male), dan (young female ... jing's mask painted on the front. All the masks were chosen from the classic Chinese novel Romance ...

However, truth is that these masks are more than seemingly as added decorations. Chinese opera masks are significant in a way that they represent the performers’ or characters’ personalities, intense ...

It was actually during the Song dynasty that substantial representations of painted faces were revealed in the tomb murals. And accordingly, this later evolved into something more artistic, creative, ...

One quaint aspect of Peking Opera is the face paint ... a widely accepted understanding in Chinese theatrical circles that face painting developed from the masks used in a musical dance called ...

The show features pieces from Xu’s own collection of masks, costumes, fans and models as well as 10 contemporary artworks she solicited on the theme of Chinese opera. Also on display are 20 ...