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Donald Sutherland mumbles his lines with great exactitude: he is an artist who reconstructs Venetian churches, and he has little need to be articulate. His emotions, and those of Julie Christie, as his wife, are presented through imagery. This is ostensibly a film about second sight, but its greatest scenes have to do more with the psychological than the psychic--the way the characters, and the camera, look at things; the love scene full of remembrances. The visual events of this film are the most important since The Conformist, and if on a few occasions there are slight problems with...
Western criticism has borrowed some of its words from Chinese art, but paintings like these make one realize how the terms have suffered in transit. To speak, for instance, of the "calligraphy" of a Western artist-Pollock's dripped skeins of paint, or the brisk rhythmic jotting of a Rembrandt sketch -is to use a metaphor. In classical Chinese painting, it is not. The wen-jen used the same brush for painting and writing, the same ink, the same habits of mind. The distinction between word and image, which is one of the sharpest divisions in our culture, barely...
...Rhythmic vitality" comes close to its sense, for the Chinese considered a painting to manifest ch'i if the "spirit" of its subject was translated into the movements of the artist's hand and then to the ink marks. The idea is that of Confucius: "Only the truly intelligent understand the principle of identity. They do not view things as apprehended by themselves subjectively, but transfer themselves into the position of the things viewed...
...artist becomes what he beholds. It is not a familiar posture for Occidentals, but at least one can marvel at the subtleties of experience it left in the unperturbed tradition of Chinese monochrome painting. ·Robert Hughes
...face of many of his contemporaries's adoption of a European manner. Muhammad Zaman, for example, based his Return from the Flight Into Egypt on a Flemish engraving after Rubens. By the time he died, just before the fall of the dynasty, Mu'in was the only significant traditional artist left. Persian painting had been exposed to a variety of new influences, but the social fabric was too weak to support the emergence of a genuine fusion...