What is the concept behind painting a classical chinese landscape?
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Answer: It's no accident that the Chinese word for landscape painting, shanshui, literally means mountain water. These paintings don't portray specific landscapes. Rather, they capture the essence or spirit of the natural world. The artist aimed to evoke a feeling rather than render a place in strict realistic style.
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A classical Chinese landscape isn't meant to reproduce an actual view as would a western figurative painting. Whereas European painters want to borrow his eyes and look at a particular landscape exactly as he saw it, from a specific angle. The Chinese painters doesn't want you to borrow his eyes rather his mind. The landscape is a inner one, a spiritual and conceptual space.
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