NOTE MAKING &
SUMMARIZING
LANDSCAPE
OF THE SOUL
1.Chin. Art- eight century
§ Wu
Daozi’s Landscape paintg.
§ Painter
enters into a cave & it’s entrance closes after him.
§ Another,
painter wouldn’t draw the eye of a dragon
§ fearing
it would fly out of the paintg
§ Deeply
reveals spirit in the art.
§ Confucious,
Zhuangzi phil.
§ They
show you the way to enter into realizan on one’s own.
2. West. Art- Delicate Realism
I.Flanders- painter wants you to borrow
his eyes & look in partclr in his way
§ Antwerp
mast. Blacksmith
o
Quinten Metsys’ love for the painter’s daughter
o
Denied propsl due to under graded profesn
o
Antwerp painted fly with an
illusionistic likeness
o
Beloved’s father swats it
away
o
Reproduction of exact view- figurative paintg
3. Diff. betw. Chin. art and
West.
§ Chin.art
spiritual- a journey to heaven
§ Shows
the way within- meditation thro pranayam
§ West.
Art material/ illusionistic realism
§ Painter’s view is at dominance.
4. Chin Phil. Daoist View.
o
Conceptual Shanshui-
YIN_YANG theory
o
a.Yang- mountain- vertical- Masculine reprsntn
§ stable,
warm & dry in Sun
o
b.Yin-river water- horizontal-Feminine reprsntn
§ Restg
on Earth, fluid, moist & cool
o
c. Middle void- space in betn meditation/pranayama- way to find communion
with the heaven
5. Outsider Art- Raw Art
§ promoted
by French Painter Jean Dubuffet
§ mooted
concept -art brut 1940
§ wild-
non-refined-untrained visionary
§ consdd as
Outsider-Art
§ of those
have ‘no right’ to be artist
§ Stimulating
contrast to Mainstream Offerings
6. Nek Chand- an ‘ Untutored
Genius Creating Paradise’
§ Contrbtn to Outsider Art
§ Rock
Garden in Chandigarh with the waste bangle pcs
§ Tagged
‘Women by the Waterfall’
§ UNESCO
Honor
§ Exhi.
in France, Italy, Belg.Switz.
§ Featured
by Raw Vision a U.K. Bases magzn on its cover page of spring 2005.
KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS
Chin=Chinese
Phil= philosophy
West.=western
Mast.=master
Diff.=difference
Betw.=between
Pran.= pranayama
Exhi.=exhibiton
Belg.= Belgium
Switz=Switzerland
Pcs= pieces
&= and
Partclr= particular
Propsl= proposal
reprsntn= representation
profesn= profession
SUMMARY:
LANDSCAPE
OF THE SOUL
Chinese art, an eighth
century, Daoist theory, which requires
the active participation of the viewer. It is a method to unite with god
through like Pranayam, Breath in-retain-breath out, supporting the Shansui
philosophy, Yand and Yin- Mountain-water, Vertical-Horizontal representing the
Masculine and the feminine energy of the universe. There is third element which acts like catalyst
agent helping unifying them called as middle void. Whereas, the European art of painting (15th
Century Antwerp Theory) demands the viewer to borrow the eyes of the artist to see
the landscape exactly as he sees. It has been made out, delicately
illusionistic, figurative painting. The French painter Dubuffet mooted the
concept of ‘art brut’, an outsider art, which is held as ‘raw art’ is a
platform for those who have ‘no right’ as they do not fall in the line of the
mainstream offerings. Neck Chand, an 80 year old artist from Chandigarh
sculpted ‘A Rock Garden made of broken pieces of bangles’ at Chandigarh which
is held by ‘Spring magazine’ by featuring his art on the cover page of their
2005 issue.
Arun
Thakare
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