(i) Contrast the Chinese view of art with the Europian view with examples.
The Chinese art is based on the imagination of the painter and is considered as the spirit resides in it that gives the essence of inner life. Where the Europian art is more about figurative paintings that are realistic and perfectly resemble with the real objects.
The Chinese painter Wu Daozi used to draw paintings from imagination and Quinten Metsys from Belgium painted a realistic fly to impress the father of the girl he had fallen in love with.
Find out the correlates of Yin and Yang in other cultures.
(ii) Who was the untutored genius who created a paradise and what is the nature of his contribution to art?
(i) What do you understand by the terms 'outsider art' and 'art brut' or 'raw art'?
(ii) Explain the concept of Shanshui.
