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Landscape of the Soul
(i) Contrast the Chinese view of art with the Europian view with examples.
The Chinese art is based on the imagination of the painter and is considered as the spirit resides in it that gives the essence of inner life. Where the Europian art is more about figurative paintings that are realistic and perfectly resemble with the real objects.
The Chinese painter Wu Daozi used to draw paintings from imagination and Quinten Metsys from Belgium painted a realistic fly to impress the father of the girl he had fallen in love with.
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(i) Contrast the Chinese view of art with the Europian view with examples.
(ii) Explain the concept of Shanshui.
(i) What do you understand by the terms 'outsider art' and 'art brut' or 'raw art'?
(ii) Who was the 'untutored genius who created a paradise' and what is the nature of his contribution to art?
Find out the correlates of Yin and Yang in other cultures.
What is the language spoken in Flanders?
The following common words are used in more than one sense.
Panel, Studio, Brush, Essence, Material
Examine the following sets of sentences to find out what the words, 'panel' and 'essence' mean in different contexts.
1. (i) The masks from Bawa village in Mali look like long panels of decorated wood.
(ii) Judge H. Hobart Grooms told the jury panel he had heard the reports.
(iii) The panel is laying the groundwork for an international treaty.
(iv) The glass panels of the window were broken.
(v) Through the many round tables, workshops and panel discussions, a consensus was reached.
(vi) The sink in the hinged panel above the bunk drains into the head.
2. (i) Their repetitive structure must have taught the people around the great composer the essence of music.
(ii) Part of the answer is in the proposition, but the essence is in the meaning.
(iii) The implications of these schools of thought are of practical essence for the teacher.
(iv) They had added vanilla essence to the pudding.
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