Collecting Guide: 7 things to know about Chinese traditional painting. Specialist Elizabeth Hammer on why age-old themes and techniques continue to flourish â with works offered in our Fine Chinese Paintings sale on 14 March at Christieâs New York. There is room for confusion over the category known as Chinese traditional painting.
arâ¢chaâ¢ic (Ã¤r kÄâ²ik), adj. 1  marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated:an archaic manner; an archaic notion.  Linguistics(of a linguistic form) commonly used in an earlier time but rare in present-day usage except to suggest the older time, as in religious rituals or historical novels.
The starting point of the Archaic period in 800 BC is defined as the structural revolution, meaning the sudden upsurge of population and material goods that occurred c. 750 BC, and the intellectual revolution of classical Greece.