Word: inking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current show at Manhattan's Asia House is, in effect, a tribute to Cleveland and its director, the eminent connoisseur of Chinese art Dr. Sherman Lee. Entitled The Colors of Ink, it is a selection of classical Chinese black-to-white paintings on silk and paper lent from Cleveland's collection and dating from the 10th century, when the colored paintings of the T'ang dynasty were superseded by a new monochromatic style, to the 18th century. One could not hope for a more succinct introduction to what one of the artists represented on the walls, Tung...
...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 existed for them at all; they expressed their thoughts with characters, not words, and these characters, having evolved from pictograms, were both sign and idea. A mark...
There is, of course, a difference between the lucid gray washes and quick flecks of ink with which the painter Chii-jan, at the end of the 10th century, painted a Buddhist Retreat by Stream and Mountain, and the clumsy spatterings that often declare "spontaneity" in the West. It is partly a difference of insight -Chii-jan's mountain, breathed into serenely vertical form, layer by stratified layer, is as mysterious in its allusions to geological time as any Leonardo landscape. It is also a difference of discipline. The wen-jen served no apprenticeship, and the idea of being...
...which could plunge the U.S. into a recession, slash Government tax revenues, and force big additional outlays for new job programs to ease the impact of unemployment. Whether or not Nixon formally proclaims the figure, the budget could well run a deficit of $15 billion, nearly double the red-ink figure that now looks likely for the current fiscal year...
...cover, among other things, new spending programs that Congress has already approved, the replacement of military equipment given to Israel during the Middle East war, and the funding of stepped-up energy research and development. All told, these additions could produce $15 billion worth of red ink as the expected slowdown eats deeply into tax revenues. Although the deficit itself will not cause much inflation, fuel scarcities and shortages of other goods will assure that prices will continue to rise sharply...