Word: ch
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...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...
THIS SPIRIT or personality that the Zen Buddhists tried to infuse in their writing is the same spirit they tried to infuse into each subject of their art. Portraiture ( Chinso in Japanse), "the core of Ch'an art which reveals the essence of Ch'an more directly than any other type of painting," is closely related to the Zen idea of doctrine transmission: each pupil who had achieved Enlightenment was given a portrait of his master with an inscription written by the master. The portrait's physical likeness and inscription both capture the spirit of the master; by looking...
...eccentric poets or recluses, of sparrows or herons, of encounters, visits, or dialogues, have a purpose but no yet-discovered function. Paintings on the whole were not used as tools for instruction in Enlightenment; themes dealing with Nature might be looked at from the point of view of the Ch'an painter's awareness of "a single reality underlying the phenomena of nature." But, as the catalogue states, "the most obvious criterion for establishing what Ch'an art is lies in its subject matter...
...that the small oil lamp every soldier carries with him is called a caiden. After I used the word the first time, one of the soldiers held up the lamp and asked, "Washington? Washington?" "Torch," I replied. "Tors, tors," they all repeated, unable to form the difficult English ch sound with their mouths. I laughed and shook my head. "Not tors. Call it lamp. L-a-m-p." I depended on them for my every need: food, water, cigarettes, paper and pen. These they provided in abundant supply -almost too abundant. The meals originally came at a rate of five...
Recently, anti-Brazilian protesters in Paris displayed a papier-mâché Christ figure with a tube down its throat and wires attached to parts of its body...