An exhaustive presentation on the lesson 'Landscape of the Soul' from the textbook "Hornbill' (Class XI - English Core)

1. Landscape of the Soul
Nathalie Trouverof
Prepared by
Jude Joseph
PGT English

2. Wu Daozi
• a Chinese artist of Tang Dynasty
• he created murals in Buddhist & Daoist
temples.
• he drew mountains, rivers, flowers & birds.
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3. Anecdote surrounding Wu Daozi
• He painted a wall mural displaying a rich
nature-scene set in a valley, containing a
stunning array of flora and fauna and including
a cave at the foot of a mountain. The story
goes that he clapped his hands and entered
the cave, inviting the emperor to follow. The
painter entered the cave but the entrance
closed behind him and, before the astonished
emperor could move or utter a word, the
painting vanished from the wall.

4. EMPEROR XUANZONG
• Emperor Xuanzong of Tang - 685-
762.
• aka Emperor Ming of Tang.
• 7th Emperor of Tang Dynasty.
• Reigned from 713 - 756.
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5. Confucious
•Born - 551 BC, Died - 479 BC.
•Chinese teacher, philosopher and politician.
•Philosophy of Confucious → Confucianism
•Analects - collection of sayings & ideas.
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6. CONFUCIANISM
• emphasized personal morality
• governmental morality
• correctness of social relationships
• justice
• sincerity
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7. Famous quotes by Confucius
• Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in
getting up every time we do.
• Never impose on others what you would not
choose for yourself.
• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I
understand.
• It does not matter how slowly you go as long as
you do not stop.
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8. Zhuangzi - traditional author - Master Zhuang
• An Ancient Chinese text which consists of a
large collection of anecdotes, allegories,
parables, and fables.
• often humorous or irreverent in nature.
• Its main themes - spontaneity in action and
of freedom from the human world and its
conventions.
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9. Zhuangzi
• The fables and anecdotes in the text attempt
to illustrate the falseness of human
distinctions between -
• good and bad
• large and small
• life and death
• human and nature.
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10. Flanders
• Flanders is the
Dutch-speaking
northern portion of
Belgium, one of
the communities,
regions and
language areas of
Belgium.
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11. Quinten Metsys (1466–1530)
• Quinten Metsys - a Belgian painter
• a founder of the Antwerp school.
• was trained as an ironsmith before becoming a
painter.
• studied painting after falling in love with an
artist’s daughter.
• Matsys was active in Antwerp for over 20 years
• created numerous works with religious roots.
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12. Quinten Metsys - Major Works
• he is known for his portaits
• The Ugly Duchess
• The Moneychanger and His Wife
• The Grotesque Old Woman
• Madona and the Child with the Lamb
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13. Quinten Metsys The Moneychanger and His Wife
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14. Quinten's Works
Madonna, Child n Lamb
A Grotesque Old Woman

15. Diff. b/w Chinese & European Art
Chinese Art
• Spiritual
• concerned with inner life
• Not realistic
• requires active
participation of the viewer
• the Chinese wants you to
enter his mind
European Art
• Realistic - tries to
reproduce an actual view.
Almost photogaphic.
• European painter wants
you to look at the painting
from his perspective.
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16. Dao or Tao
• is a Chinese word signifying 'way', 'path',
'route', 'road' or sometimes more loosely
'doctrine', 'principle'.
• It means both the path or the method &
the mysterious works of the universe.
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17. Meaning of Daoism
• Dao is term for describing thought of Laozi
• Dao is fundamental energy, power
• Dao motivates, move, push, resolve, change
and determinize everything, at every time, in
every place.
• 'right' or 'proper' way of existence
• Result/Outcome - state of enlightenment or
spiritual perfection.
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18. Shan Shui
• Shan Shui= “mountain water”
• refers to a style of traditional Chinese
painting that involves or depicts scenery
or natural landscapes.
• Mountains, rivers and often waterfalls are
prominent in this art form.
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19. Shan Shui
• When Chinese painters work on shan
shui painting, they do not try to present an
image of what they have seen in the
nature, but
• No one cares whether the painted colors
and shapes look like the real object or not.
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20. Paths in a Shanshui Painting
• Pathways should never be straight.
• They should meander like a stream.
• The path can be the river, or a path along
it, or the tracing of the sun through the sky
over the shoulder of the mountain.
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21. Yin & Yang
• Yi n & Ya n g d e s c r i b e s h o w
seemingly opposite or contrary
f o r c e s m a y a c t u a l l y b e
complementary, interconnected,
and interdependent in the natural
world.
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22. Yin & Yang
• Yin is the receptive and Yang the active
principle, seen in all forms of change and
difference such as the annual cycle (winter
and summer), the landscape (north-facing
shade and south-facing brightness), sexual
coupling (female and male), the formation of
both men and women as characters, and
sociopolitical history (disorder and order).
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23. Shanshui = “mountain water” Landscape
Yang & Yin represent two complimentary poles
YANG MIDDLE VOID YIN
Mountain is Yang Interaction takes
place here
Water is Yin
Reaching vertically
towards heaven
Nothing can happen
without it
Horizontal, resting on the
Earth
Stable
Warm
Dry
Active
Masculine
MAN
Fundamental role
↓
Conduit of
communication b/w
both poles of the
Universe
Fluid
Moist
Cool
Receptive
Feminine

24. Outsider Art
•Outsider art is art by self-taught or naïve art
makers.
• Outsider artists have little or no contact with
the mainstream art world or art institutions.
• In many cases, their work is discovered only
after their deaths.
• Often, outsider art illustrates extreme mental
states, unconventional ideas, or elaborate
fantasy worlds.
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25. Outsider Art
• Outsider Art is a
synonym for Art
B r u t ( “ r a w a r t ” ,
“rough art”)
• A r t B r u t l a b e l
coined by French
artist Jean Dubuffet.
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26. Nek Chand
• Nek Chand Saini (1924
– 2015) was a self-
taught Indian artist,
known for building the
R o c k G a r d e n o f
C h a n d i g a r h , a n
eighteen-acre sculpture
garden in the city of
Chandigarh, India.
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27. Nek Chand's Rock Garden
Made from recycled materials, Chand
built up the mass with a cement and
sand mix before adding a final coating
of smoothly burnished pure cement
combined with waste materials such
as broken glass, bangles, crockery,
mosaic and iron-foundry slag.
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29. Doll Museum in Rock Garden
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30. Rock Garden
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31. UNESCO's View on Nek Chand's Art
• “.....an outstanding
testimony of the
difference a single
man could make
when he lives his
dream”.
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32. Thank you
The contents of the slide have been taken from various
sources on the internet.
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