Landscape of the Soul for HS first year, by P.B.


1.Who was Wu Daozi ?
Ans:  Wu Daozi was a painter who lived in the 8th Century.

2.What was the last painting of Wu Daozi ?
Ans: The last painting of Wu Daozi was a landscape commissioned by the Tang Emperor Xuanzong, to decorate a palace wall.

3..Where did the master hide the painting ?
Ans: The master had hidden the painting behind a screen that the Emperor would only see it.

4.What were the things that the Emperor admire in the paintings ?
Or: What were the things or sceneries involved in the paintings ?
Ans: The Emperor admired the wonderful scene, discovering forests, high mountains, waterfalls, clouds floating in an immense sky, men on hilly paths, and birds in flight.

5.What was the mysterious thing that availed in the foot of the mountain ?
Ans: In the cave at the foot of the mountain, there dwelled/was a spirit.

6.Write the story of Wu Daozi and the painting.
Ans: Once upon a time, there was a famous painter named Wu Daozi. He decorated/made a palace wall with a landscape which was commissioned/ordered by the Tang Emperor Xuanzong.  The master had hidden the painting behind a screen so that only the Emperor would see it. The emperor admired at the natural sceneries of the landscape. The painter mentioned the Emperor that there was a spirit in the cave at the foot of the mountain. After that, the painter clapped his hands and the entrance to the cave opened. After a moment, the painter entered the cave but the entrance closed behind him. Before the Emperor could move or utter a word, the painting had vanished from the wall. Also, not a trace/sign of Wu Daozi’s brush was left and the artist was never seen again in this world.

7.Name any two books that found the China’s classical education./that about the spirit story.
Ans: The books of Confucius and Zhuangzi are two most famous books that found the China’s classical education./that about the spirit story.

8.What was the name of the master blacksmith ?
Ans: The name of the master blacksmith was Quinten Metsys.

9. Differentiate the Chinese Art and European Art.
Or Contrast the Chinese Art and European Art.
Ans: There are some different characters between the Chinese art and European Art, these are as follows:
1.The Chinese art deeply reveals about the story of the spirit.
2.The classical Chinese art is not meant an actual view instead only a figurative art.
3.The Chinese art is not so much actual reality and not realism but imagination.
4.Chinese art is not always meant a single point of view but some external themes or things which are not real.
On the other hand-
5.Europen art borrows eyes as an actual view that can be seen by eyes and internally true.
6.The European Art provides the active participation as a viewer.

10.What are the two words that represent the ‘word’ landscape?
Ans: The ‘Shanshui’ literally means ‘mountain-water’, these two words together represent the word ‘Landscape’.

11. write the meaning of ‘Shanshui’ / What is the meaning of the word ‘Shanshui’ ?
Ans: Shanshui literally means ‘mountain-water’.

12. Write the meaning of Yang and Yin of a landscape.
Ans: The word, ‘Mountain-water’ is used together to represent the word ‘landscape’. The mountain is Yang which reaching vertically towards Heaven, stable, war, and dry in the sun. On the other hand, the water is Yin which horizontal and resting on the earth, fluid, moist and cool.

13. What is compared with yang and yin?
Ans: Yang and yin are compared with the yogic practice of pranayama breath in, retrain and breath out.

14. Write the story of the blacksmith “Quinten Metsys”.
Ans: There was a master blacksmith named Quinten Metsys. He fell in love with a painter’s daughter. But, he knew that her father would not accept as son-in-law in such a profession. So,  he entered the painter’s studio and painted a fly on his latest panel. That was realism and awesome. When the master tried to swat (beat) it away but he could not as that was just paint. The painter admired on it and the blacksmith married his beloved.

15. When did and who moot the concept of ‘art brut’?
Ans: French painter Jean Dubuffet mooted the concept ‘art brut’ in the 1940’s.

16.What is ‘art brut’ or raw art or outsider Art ?
Ans: The genre ‘art brut’ or raw art or outsider Art is described as the art of those people who have ‘no right’ to be artists, who have not received formal training yet they show talent and artistic insight in their arts. Anything and everything from a tin to a sink to a broken down car could be material for a work of this art.
As example, Dubuffet began clearing to make himself a garden sculpted with stone and recycled material is known to the world today as the ‘Rock Garden’, at Chandigarh.

17.Who and how did Rock Garden make/create ?
Ans: , Dubuffet began clearing to make himself a garden sculpted with stone and recycled material is known to the world today as the ‘Rock Garden’, at Chandigarh.

18.Who is the biggest contribution of outsider art ? Write a few lines about him.
Ans: eighty years old creator and director, Nek Chand is now the biggest contribution of outisider art. The fiftieth issue (Spring 2005) of Raw Vision, a UK-based magazine pioneer in outsider art publications, features Nek Chand. Also, his Rock Garden sculptures ‘Women by the Waterfall’ on its anniversary issue’s cover.

19.What was the universal organization honoring Nek Chand ?
Ans: The Swiss Commission for UNESCO was the universal organization which honoring Nek Chand for his arts.

20.Write the places of ‘Realm of Nek Chand’ that held at ?
Ans: The five-month interactive show, ‘Realm of Nek Chand’ began on October and hold on leading museums in Switzerland, Belgium, France and Italy.

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