3:37 PM: today i continued my gouache studies of qing dynasty painting in the temple of the white clouds, beijing.this second gouache of two thus far is a riff on the panel in that temple. i’m studying how the chinese viewed & portrayed space and how that relates to taiga’s 18th century landscape paintings.
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so far, my observation is that the chinese invented what we know and love as 18th c. japanese landscape painting! i need to delve deeper & explore their philosophical & spiritual beliefs, but at first glance, i see over and over the seeds of taiga & his buddies. this is no great revelation; it’s well known that the18th c. japanese masters of the brush greatly admired the 12th & 13th c. chinese painters, and drew heavily from them. their discoveries & solutions for painting the landscape became what most of us know as japanese art.