COMPOSITE
An example of a mountain-water brush scroll painting that defines the style.
Tis another class of composites, dodgier on the ethics front than the previous one, setting out to fool the viewer, but with the aim of entertaining and exploring. Advertising is full of clever examples, as is cinema. This is slightly different, and takes as its starting point the vertical Chinese scroll paintings known as “mountain-water.” This is a different tradition from Western imagery, in two important ways. First, long and vertical is not part of the European painting canon, and second, the Chinese approach is to express the essence of the landscape, ...
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