Project file in English topic the landscape of the soul
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LANDSCAPE OF SOUL
• Difference between the western and eastern painting and the format or objective i.e. The European and Chinese painting.
• Takes notes of various relative tales.
• Nek Chand has been recognised and honoured by UNESCO for his piece of work.
• A painting by Wu Daozi for the emperor for the wall of his palace is described and taken note.
• The painting by Wu Daozi is an expression of natural view projecting forests, greens, mountains and rivers.
• The painter projects and mentions the presence of a soul in the cave and the soul symbolically being the soul of the artist for the fact that the painting is made and projects the view and soul of the artist.
• Chinese landscapes in contrast for not a view and projection of any real or actual view.
• The Chinese paintings were open to different views as per the different observers or viewers.
• Western painters painted the painting with one particular view and tend to restrict it to the same and wanted the viewer to see the painting with the very view of the artist itself.
• Differentiates between figurative paintings and raw paintings.
• Talks of the middle void being overlooked in general.
• The paintings were restricted to one view and were not in actual real form e.g. the artist didn’t draw the image of the eye of the dragon.
In this chapter, the writer contrasts two forms of art – Chinese art and European art by using two different stories. In China during the eighth century, the Tang emperor Xuanzong commissioned a painter Wu Daozi to decorate a wall in the palace. Upon seeing the wall painting, the Emperor started noticing the outer appearance of the painting but the painter drew his attention to a cave at the foot of the mountain. The painter told the Emperor that he would take him inside. The painter entered the cave and the entrance closed behind him. As soon as the painter clapped his hand, the painting on the wall was gone and so was the painter. In another story, a painter wouldn’t draw an eye of a dragon as he feared that the dragon would fly out of the painting. In another story to represent a European art form, a master Blacksmith falls in love with a painter’s daughter. The father didn’t approve of him because of his profession. The blacksmith sneaked into his painting studio and painted a fly on the painter’s latest panel. The fly seemed so real that the painter tried to hit it first before realizing it was in the painting. The painter accepted him as a trainee in his studio. The blacksmith married the painter’s daughter and later became one of the famous painters of his time. These stories revealed as to how art form is believed to be followed in two different regions in the world. In Europe, an artist wants the viewer to see a real viewpoint by borrowing his eyes. The art must be perfect and must be illusion likeness. Whereas, in China, the artist doesn’t paint a real one but uses his inner and spiritual voice to create an abstract piece. The viewer can enter the painting from any point and can travel according to his own imagination. The artist wants the viewer to enter his mind and create a path of its own. This concept is called ‘Shanshui’ which means ‘mountain water’. When they are used together, they make the word ‘landscape’.