Vide et plein. Le langage pictural chinois. Copte Même si la science le

Même si la science le range au nombre des couleurs primaires

Collection «les manuels d'art et d'archéologie antiques«

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Schwentzel

Vide et plein. Le langage pictural chinois. Copte Même si la science leThe aim of Chinese painting is to create a microcosm, "truer than Nature itself" (Tsung Ping): this is only achieved by restoring the vital breaths that animate the Universe; thus the painter seeks to capture the internal lines of things and to fix the relationships they maintain between them, hence the importance of the line. But these lines of force can only be embodied on a background which is the Void. It is therefore necessary to create the Void