Before her Chinese opera show, Xu successfully ran a student workshop sponsored by the Washington International School, which taught kids how to create opera masks.

Chinese opera mask is basically among the main methods, which performers use as makeup. Since opera masks are used in representing various human emotions, the frequent on-stage change of facial ...

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 ...

An exhibition featuring the colorful Peking Opera facial masks will open on Feb 5 at the Shifu Garden in Weifang, East China's Shandong province to promote the traditional Chinese art of facial ...

Since then, the traditional opera’s facial makeup has progressively envisioned a drift of harmonization. So while the opera performance is firmly based on allusion, such as footwork, gestures, and ...

The second NYS Chinese Lantern Festival includes more than 1,000 lanterns on display, as well as 30-minute performances featuring acrobats, jugglers, Chinese yo-yoing and face-changing.

Sung examined 76 masks painted by artist Steve Lu in his 1968 book "Face Painting in Chinese Opera." Sung digitally scanned and resized the images for uniformity for her computer analysis.

WILLMAR -- The students were so intent on designing and painting their Chinese opera masks that they hardly took notice of the strangers in their classroom. Get 3 months/99¢ a month SUBSCRIBE NOW ...

At first glance, the Chinese opera mask with red pom poms and pearls decorating an intricate crown looked just like an animation. But it was not just animation. It was a virtual mask, following ...