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Kipling's unmeetable twain have been getting together with a vengeance in Bangkok. The American presence meant money and automobiles; automobiles meant roads. So the exotic "Venice of the East" filled in most of its famed canals and turned itself into a miniature Oriental Los Angelescomplete with...
Viewing Oriental Art without understanding its Buddhist antecedents is like viewing Western art with no understanding of Christianity. Yet, lack of understanding of Buddhism or its influence does not preclude the viewer's appreciating the sensitivity and sense of taste in Oriental art.
Those people who demand relevance in an exhibition would probably demand that we juxtapose a Van Gogh next to Lake or that we put a Manet that uses patches of color next to a colored screen. But to bring in the Impressionists or Van Gogh would dilute the pure Oriental...
As far as the Fogg show and MFA show being similar, it would be stretching the comparison to say more than that they both deal with Oriental art. In fact, the Fogg show is limited to Japanese art whereas the Zen show includes Chinese (Ch'an) as well as Japanese...
In order to understand what Zen art is see the Museum of Fine Arts Zen show first. Then you can observe the Zen in context of other Oriental art at the Fogg show. The MFA has captured the spirit of the Oriental. Like the Japanese who hang a single painting...