Chinese lanscape art has the sort of depth and distance that stretches your imagination. Unlike the hyper-realistic art of some of the Western-style paintings, these are no longer representative of the visible world. In fact, it is an expression of the inner thoughts, an extension of the garden of the soul. This is my first attempt in Chinese art, after many years. I would love to do more of these when I have the time. Below, is a quotation from Lin Yutang, whose words have greatly inspired me:
Art is both creation and recreation.......I would rather have all school-children taught to model clay and all bank presidents and economic experts able to make their own Christmas cards, however ridiculous the attempt may be, than to have only a few artists who work at art as a profession. That is to say, I am for amateurism in all fields. .........every parent enjoys the amateur dramatics of his own children much more heartily than he enjoys a Shakespearean play......It is only when the spirit of play is kept that art can escape being commercialized.
