Landscape Sketching Random Talk

Author: Sun Jiaquan
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Teaching techniques through stories, interpreting life through sketches! If readers directly read On Sketching Landscapes, the inspiration and enjoyment they gain might truly be a feast for the soul. Whatever you seek, you can take it; the big and small pearls in the jade plate are enough for you to savor. This sketching, this travel, this discovery, this experience, this expression—like holding hands with a person of character, good at expressing himself, and diligent in painting and thinking—pass the time in dialogue, even with hardship, hunger, and thirst, without losing interest or feeling weary. On Sketching Landscapes may have already opened an otherworldly world for us, who are often confined to a narrow and calculating world. This book basically explores truth through dialogue, using inquiry and learning to understand the vastness of the world. What is particularly noteworthy is the book's miscellaneous writing style—initially, one truly doesn't know what it is about; upon closer inspection, everything you want to see and read is there. Here are images—paintings with poetic titles, dimensions, dates, and locations; here are writings—creative processes, accompanied by weather, journeys, insights, techniques, originality, reflections, questions, indignation, sighs. Each painting is also a story worth savoring and chewing over, as well as the stories behind the stories.