CHENG François.
Empty and full. Chinese pictorial language.
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| N° d'inventaire | 25251 |
| Format | 23 x 29 |
| Détails | 175 p., publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782021480207 |
The aim of Chinese painting is to create a microcosm, "truer than Nature itself" (Tsung Ping): this is only achieved by restoring the vital breaths that animate the Universe; thus the painter seeks to capture the internal lines of things and to fix the relationships they maintain between them, hence the importance of the line. But these lines of force can only be embodied on a background which is the Void.
It is therefore necessary to create the Void on the canvas, between the elements and in the line itself. It is around this Void that all the other notions of Chinese painting are organized. Rich in his dual culture, François Cheng gives us the keys to understanding and reading Chinese painting by comparing it with our Western artistic tradition.
It is therefore necessary to create the Void on the canvas, between the elements and in the line itself. It is around this Void that all the other notions of Chinese painting are organized. Rich in his dual culture, François Cheng gives us the keys to understanding and reading Chinese painting by comparing it with our Western artistic tradition.
It is therefore necessary to create the Void on the canvas, between the elements and in the line itself. It is around this Void that all the other notions of Chinese painting are organized. Rich in his dual culture, François Cheng gives us the keys to understanding and reading Chinese painting by comparing it with our Western artistic tradition.