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WHAT IS INK PAINTING? PHL 320 —Week 4 —UDCI

OVERVIEW

1. How to paint a painting?

2. Chinese ink painting and the “oneness of strokes”

3. Ink art and Modern China

1. HOW TO PAINT A PAINTING?

➤ Painting, imitation, and the history of Western art (up to a certain point!)

DESCARTES’ SPACE AND SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE

1882-85 1897 1902-1906

1905 1905

MERLEAU-PONTY, CÉZANNE, AND THE BODY

➤ Ambiguity of vision

➤ Body seeing and being seen

➤ Being in the world

➤ Vision as not mere representation of external reality

➤ Visual experiences as made of the same “stuff” of external reality

HORSES, PAINTINGS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS

Géricault, The 1821 Derby at Epsom Muybridge, The Horse in Motion, 1878

CHINESE INK PAINTING AND THE “ONENESS OF STROKES”

➤ du hua (“to read a painting”)

➤ Capturing the essence of the subject

➤ Refusal of color

DAOIST’S ONENESS OF STROKE

➤ “This oneness of strokes is the origin of all beings, the root of myriad forms. It is revealed through spiritual reality, and is innate in man.”

➤ Reaching the unity of individuals and nature via the experience of ink painting

➤ The one stroke as the undifferentiated totality of potential forms

3. INK ART AND MODERN CHINA

➤ “Highbrow” new ink art:

➤ Double bind:

➤ Criticized as non-modern by Western art world

➤ Criticized as Westernized by the Chinese art world

URBAN INK ART: WRITING IN WATER

➤ How is ink painting reinterpreted in everyday contemporary Chinese culture?

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