Word: zen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zen Painting at the MFA till...
...share the enthusiasm the French Impressionists had for Oriental Art when we look at Boston's two exciting shows: Traditions of Japanese Art at the Fogg and Zen Painting and Calligraphy at the Museum of Fine Arts. As each member of the Impressionist group acquired something different from Oriental Art, so can each of us, whether by contemplating nature or appreciating the simplicity in Oriental interpretations of form...
...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 (Zen) works...
Clue in the Candy. The farthest-out macrobiotic lore, which would come as a surprise to the Zen Buddhist monks themselves, is to be found in the culinary columns of underground newspapers, where readers are routinely warned against eating too much meat, dairy products or sugar. A columnist in the Los Angeles Free Press, for example, recently speculated that the University of Texas massacre a few years back was caused by too much yin-in this case sugar-in the killer's blood. The clue that supported his conclusion: chocolate candy was found in the pockets of the slain...
...spirit of the Zen master captured in a (Zen) portrait, like the spirit of Zen teaching from mind to mind, is the "be-ingness" in a photograph that White proposes as an ideal form. Be-ingness is like photographing one hand clasping...