What does the line ‘the landscape is an inner one, spiritual and conceptual space’say?
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The mountain water represents ‘landscape’. It also represents the Daoist view of the universe. The mountain in the landscape signifies Yang – the male force of the universe; and Yin – the female force of the universe. The Middle Void is also important in which the interaction of Yin Yang
This landscape is described by the article as Shanshui, which translates to mountain-water. Two different sides to an artwork, just like Yin and Yang. The mountain which reaches towards heaven and the water which treads across the earth. These two sides therefore also portray the spiritual which transcends into the heavenly, and the conceptual which wades through the earth. In this landscape the artist has been able to capture a scene not just as he would view it, but more than that,subjectively the multiple ways in which his mind would think about a landscape. He wants the viewer to be able to enter and understand his mind.