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...essence, a jewel, a flower alone; each, by its particular excellence, isolates the viewer in a moment and place containing nothing but this eye and that painting. Artistic statement on paper becomes not only legible, in a calligraphic sense, but tangible. The bamboo leaves in groups of three in Tao'chi's work, "Orchid, Bamboo and Rock," form the ancient character "Ko" meaning bamboo--the painting is also a sort of poem. Cha Shih Piao's "River Landscape in Rain" is also more than a visual experience; its wetness drenches the worlds of painting and perception...
...collection, as it were, is a group of scrolls and albums by Tao'chi, a monastic scholar and painter who eventually renounced Buddhism and became a professional painter in the metropolis of Yang-chou. His "Echo" is a definitive understatement: on the left, a mountain made of brushstrokes swirls up out through clouds (also defined by the texture of the stroke). A tremulous, finely-drawn bridge spans the silent gap between this huge statement and a smaller hill that echoes it. The echo is seen, heard and felt...
...carefully organized carnival of denunciation then moved to Peking. With cymbals clanging, bands blaring and rockets exploding overhead, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched over the cobblestones of T'ien An Men Square dutifully shouting "Ta-tao Chiang Ch 'ing [Down with Chiang Ch'ing]." Two of the women who were closest to Mao joined in the anti-Chiang Ch'ing chant. One was Mao's favorite niece, Wang Hai-jung, a Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs; the other was American-educated Nancy T'ang, the late Chairman's trusted interpreter. Radio Peking...
...pellet (as dropped into mud) whirlpool (eddies) texture." If this sounds pedantic, it should be seen in context: the Chinese belief that any stroke (like any character) was a unit of meaning, virtually a work of art; and that the picture could be as much a manifestation of the tao as nature itself...
...TAO TE CHING by Lao Tsu. Translated by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English. Unpaged. Knopf. $7.95. The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese collection of short verses supposedly written by an almost certainly mythical sage named Lao Han or Lao Tsu about 2,500 years ago. This title means "The Classic of the Power of the Way." According to the jacket of this edition, an overfancy one gussied up with photographs (fog, snow, twigs, grass) and Chinese calligraphy, the Tao Te Ching has been translated more frequently than any book except the Bible. One reason is its poetic strength...