Blog # 8 Non-Western Art….Part Two.
July 25, 2009
For my last blog assignment, I choose to use a piece of art that originated from the Ming Dynasty which was an Empire of the Great Ming. This dynasty of China existed from 1368 to 1644 which resulted from the collapse of the Mongol/ Yuan Dynasty. These painters that resulted from the Ming Dynasty indulged into their own pleasure and sensitivity The picture That I chose was painted by Wu Wei entitled Ten Thousand Li of the Yangtze River. This painting really shows the influence at the time during the Ming Dynasty. The use of grey and white colors suggest from a subjective point of view that presents a calming sentential mood that gives a warm impression for the audience. The artist gives the impression of texture that can be seen from the mountains in which the audience can see the visual imagery of the white clouds that atop the mystical mountain that was present during the Ming Dynasty. The part that I really like involves the village below that, at the base of the summit can the the mystical mountain which again gives the audience a idea of what it could have been like to live in that village and to see such an incredible mountain during the Ming Dynasty. The artist uses a fine diverse technique to display the white background mountain range to give the audience a up front focus on the village and the rocky mountain side. The use of texture presents the audience with the visual effects of rocks and cliffs that complete the mountain side in the painting.
