Vide et plein. Le langage pictural chinois. Copte a priest of Jerusalem

a priest of Jerusalem

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Vide et plein. Le langage pictural chinois. Copte a priest of JerusalemThe 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