An
e-book of all posts in the series “A growing disconnect between
China and the West”.
After editing the posts the e-book totals 150 pages.
Click on its cover page hereunder for download.
2018-10-25
2018-10-12
Art. From tribal to power societies.
In the present stage of our understanding tribal art roughly emerged around 40,000 years ago while Chinese Xieyi painting, Chinese Buddhism and Christianity only started around 500 AD.Calligraphy originates sometimes before 200 BC. It was revered as a fine art in line with poetry and music while painting was merely viewed as a craft applied in the field of decoration, remembrance of ancestors, or illustration of daily life. Xieyi appeared later as an extension of calligraphy and this is when painting finally acceded to the status of a fine art in China.
What is striking, in the juxtaposition of images here under, is how visually similar Chinese Xieyi painting is to tribal art. Chinese Buddhism still has some common traits with tribal art but with Christianity we enter into a whole new world.
Why is Xieyi so similar to tribal art?
Why is Christian art depicting such a totally different world than tribal and Xieyi art?
2018-10-05
Humanity’s future and the role of the artist
This
series of posts about “the disconnection between the West and China”
centers around societal evolution, and more particularly, the present
shifting of the center of gravity of the economy-world from the US to
the territorial expanse of the Chinese civilization in North-East Asia.
In the preceding posts we have seen how this shift is due to the
interactions between the following factors:
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