Word: treeness
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...Japanese character, Author Maraini sees certain determining qualities. The first is intimacy with nature. The Japanese garden is nature in the raw, scaled down but retaining its own asymmetrical harmony. The Japanese goal is not decoration or domination but communion, to experience the rockness of a rock or the treeness of a tree. A second quality- is seemingly innate manual dexterity. As Author Maraini describes it, Japan is a kind of mammoth Santa's workshop full of exquisite wood and paper toys...
Nothing but his interpretation of imposition and color limits the artist a post-impressionism. He attempts to express with the greatest possible the material and spiritual significance of a subject, as the "treeness" a tree or the "wallness" of a wall. Generally the works of Kandinsky are considered to be the most abstract expressions of post-impressionism, requiring an imaginative reception on part of the observer...
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