Name: Stanley Murashige at PCC Part 2 " Chinese Painting and Calligraphy...." (Stanley Murashige at PCC Part 2 "Chinese Painting and Calligraphy....")
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DR. STANLEY MURASHIGE:
This is the Chinese term

for what we're translating
into English as "landscape."

and to understand what it's
about because once one starts

For example, here I am
in Chicago teaching,

and as David Roy, who retired from
University of Chicago used to say,

if you have x-ray vision, you will
not see mountains in Illinois.

So in the Chinese tradition
then, if you went out

to the cornfields of Illinois
and you painted the landscape

that you saw, it would
not be considered this.

or mountains because the Chinese
doesn't differentiate singular

or plural here-- and you could
think of it as meaning both

simultaneously, mountains and
water, quite literally, shan shui.

becomes a great classical
traditional Chinese landscape

painting in the 10th and
11th centuries when it does

emerge I'll show you
some earlier images that

If there are no mountains,
it's not landscape painting.

And I have some slides that
talk a little bit about yin yang

There is a kind of a
yin yang implication

here where mountains and
water or rivers and streams

refer to two inclinations
or tendencies in nature.

That is to say that mountains
are expressive of the tendency

of things to grow high, to grow
up towards the sky, to be solid,

to change slowly because mountains
do change, and to be hard.

Water, on the other hand,
flows downward, softer.

So mountains and streams
become mutually entailing

complementary expressions of
the whole world of nature.

And one doesn't encounter
really the equivalent,

You'll find terms like mountains
and streams or rivers and forests

and so on, but the
all-encompassing term "nature"

This is an early example
of mountains and water.

It's a cast bronze incense
burner, quite a spectacular object

excavated in the late 1960s
by Chinese archaeologists

from a tomb of a Han
Dynasty imperial prince,

And this is something
that was buried with him.

So this down here depicted in
inlaid gold in these scroll forms

The term that we could use, at least
at this time, we can call this chi.

So in this particular context, this
is water and water that swirls up.

And it almost turns into
these oddly-shaped peaks.

There are actually holes cast
in and among the mountain peaks

so that when the incense
is lit, you can imagine

the smoke of the incense
swirling around these peaks.

So an incense burner that was
buried with Prince Liu Sheng.

Usually identified as one of the
legendary islands of immortals,

mountain islands of
immortals, one of three

that exist somewhere off of
the Northeast coast of China.

and also for later Chinese
culture and Daoism in particular.

But I wanted to put the
character for "immortal"

that we're translating as
"immortal" down here, which

is literally a person on
the left next to a mountain.

So just by way of introduction,
the notion of mountains and streams

is connected with a long
history of, let's say interest,

and what we call it simplistically,
cult of immortality, request

for longevity in
ancient Chinese culture.

This is a probably copy of
an early original painting.

This is just the detail of
a hand scroll, ink and color

on silk, that is attributed to
a painter named Gu Kaizhi, who

was living and working in the
300s, dying around about 406

And the subject is a poem, so
this is an illustration of a poem.

The poem is the immortal-- sometimes
immortal-- nymph of the Luo River.

And she's floating
above the streams and so

we have again immortality associated
with the world of mountains

and streams here in an
illustration of a poem.

And this will be pushing
into the sixth century,

This is just a small detail of
wall paintings in a cave sanctuary,

a cave shrine, a part of a monastic
site, a Buddhist shrine out--

and I showed you slides
for that before the break--

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