Question

Give two examples to show the figurative paintings reproducing actual view

Answer 1

Answer:

● A classical Chinese landscape is not meant to reproduce an actual view, as would a Western figurative painting.

● Whereas the European painter wants you to borrow his eyes and look at a particular landscape exactly as he saw it, from a specific angle, the Chinese painter does not choose a single viewpoint.

The above two examples are ways in which contrast may be expressed. Combine the following sets of ideas to show the contrast between them.

(i) The Emperor commissions a painting and appreciates its outer appear

Answer 2

Answer:

Flemish artist did not draw the dragon’s eye for fear it would come alive; so lifelike was the dragon. Quinten Metsys painted a fly on artists’ canvas — artist swatted it thinking it was a real fly.