Vide et plein. Le langage pictural chinois. Copte "IMPERFECT WORLDS" offers a solid

"IMPERFECT WORLDS" offers a solid synthesis on the subject

with their imposing cathedrals that still today magnify the landscape of many European cities

Collection «les manuels d'art et d'archéologie antiques«

Virgil and the premature deaths of Franz CUMONT

writer and art critic

Vide et plein. Le langage pictural chinois. Copte "IMPERFECT WORLDS" offers a solidThe aim of Chinese painting is to create a microcosm, "truer than Nature itself" (Tsung Ping): this is only achieved by restoring the vital breaths that animate the Universe; thus the painter seeks to capture the internal lines of things and to fix the relationships they maintain between them, hence the importance of the line. But these lines of force can only be embodied on a background which is the Void. It is therefore necessary to create the Void