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nineveh_uk) wrote2020-05-25 10:27 pm
nineveh_uk) wrote2020-05-25 10:27 pm
In which my last few days come together...
I wish I had known as a 12 year old painting fantasy landscapes that traditional Chinese landscape painting is not intended to be literal depictions of places in a mode of realism, but symbolic and imaginary*. I would have been so into it. As it is, I know naff all, so apologies to the art tradition.
Anyway, this is what you get when you combine watching the final couple of episodes of Nirvana in Fire** with current British politics. In this famous work, Two men atop a waterfall we see the tiny figures of two men, one yellow-haired, as they grapple beside a castle above a cascade. Is it a battle or a rescue? Surely one will plunge into the depths? But which? Though considered crude in execution, the work is one of many of this moment of symbolic importance.
*That is putting it extremely crudely because I only understand it thus. I want to read a book. Or better websites.
**An ending successfully pulled off, thoughts to follows
Anyway, this is what you get when you combine watching the final couple of episodes of Nirvana in Fire** with current British politics. In this famous work, Two men atop a waterfall we see the tiny figures of two men, one yellow-haired, as they grapple beside a castle above a cascade. Is it a battle or a rescue? Surely one will plunge into the depths? But which? Though considered crude in execution, the work is one of many of this moment of symbolic importance.
*That is putting it extremely crudely because I only understand it thus. I want to read a book. Or better websites.
**An ending successfully pulled off, thoughts to follows
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