gassho2 Hi. Just a note.
In the coming weeks and months I will be posting on a variety of art related subjects in this forum. I’ll be inviting you to look with me into the influence that Asian art, especially the Taoist/Zen landscape painting traditions, had on the birth of modern western art, and the modern “eye”. This occurred at a time when trade, transportation, and mass reproduction, made Chinese and Japanese imagery widely available for the first time to painters like Vincent Van Gogh, who were rejecting the long established neo-classical world-view. These Asian imports opened up a new way of seeing to a generation of artists, who in turn opened up the way we all see, in surprising ways. It will be fun to illustrate those changes here, in pictures and stories.
Another topic we will be looking into is something Jundo spoke about during a recent Zazenkai... the flip-side of impermanence, where instead of seeing it as a tragic aspect of Samsara to be accepted and transcended, we can look with creative eyes to the wonder and necessity of change, and how this beautiful world of living form is traced by the endless, open, dance of change. How does Samara look when we learn to dance with it?
Finally I will be posting the next intallment on the six realms, the Bhavacakra, or Wheel of Becoming. This time we will be looking at the symbolic Beast Realm.
Please remember that the Art forum is for all members of Treeleaf. Please feel free to post any art projects you may be working on, and any subject that inspires you. If you have an art or craft idea and you would like to find a partner to explore it with you, please post here in this forum.
Thanks for reading :encouragement:
Gassho
Richard
Sat today/LAH
