Tuesday, February 07, 2006

from The Chinese Theory of Art, 1967

I have been of the opinion that men, animals, houses and furniture have a constant form. On the other hand, mountains and rocks, bamboos and trees, ripples, mists and clouds have no constant form(hsing) but have a constant inner nature (li - an inner law of being)

Sung Tu, 1036 -1101

2 comments:

Quitmoanez said...

Cool.

More please.

J C said...

I find that when I'm doing blind contour drawings of trees there is an inner nature being captured, a repetition in form, but the repeating is quite random. Water is the same, clouds too.