Word: hsieh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chinese painters. For the great 5th century painter Hsieh Ho, this ability to capture ch'i, the quality of "spirit-resonance and life-movement," was the first principle of painting. The degree to which a painter succeeds in this aim is for Chinese the final criterion of his achievement...
...wielded crude, homemade flagstaffs, their jagged points torn from beer cans. A few kept their prison camp basketballs. One clasped a French horn. "Dear anti-Communist comrades," boomed a loudspeaker as the P.W.s neared the edge of freedom, "we have come here to welcome you." The P.W.s called back, "Hsieh, hsieh [Thanks, thanks]," and their voices swelled into the U.N. zone. The loudspeaker told them: "Please come quietly, and be free...
Painters of the period stayed carefully within the rules formulated by Hsieh Ho some seven centuries before. Hsieh Ho's six standards, by which Chinese painting was judged: 1) rhythmic vitality, 2) anatomical structure, 3) conformity with nature, 4) suitability of coloring, 5) artistic grouping, 6) copying of classical masterpieces. In striving to meet these requirements, even the greatest of Ming painters seldom departed from familiar themes; but they achieved such happy variations as scholarly Shen Chou's pink study of spring (see cut), and they more than made up in refinement what they lacked in fire...
...effect that his side would certainly build and repair North Korean airfields during an armistice (the theory being that North Korea was a sovereign nation, and that the U.N. had no right to interfere in its internal affairs). Now Red China's Hsieh Fang was saying that the U.N.'s charge that his side intended to build and repair airfields was a "misrepresentation and slander...
Stung into rage, Hsieh shot back: "Your statement is rude and absurd. You've gone too far in your absurdity and arrogance. You've reversed black and white. Your statement proves your lack of sincerity. You've fully exposed your ugly, ferocious features of a bandit...