This article deals with the Chinese ink painting tradition, as a paradigm in which art and life are coupled and intertwined. In fact, in Chinese classical aesthetics, art and life do not produce a dramatic tension, but are inscribed in a common process of naturalness or spontaneity (ziran). The painter has to learn how the breath, or vital energy (qi), that flows in every single image-phenomenon (xiang), can be enlivened by the brush strokes. Moreover, the paper builds a dialogue between the European and the Chinese main patterns. Showing alternately the continuity or the discontinuity between art and life, both traditions of thought display the possibility to learn a sort of “art of living”, through – and not despite – the dynamic de-coincidence that appears in the folds of human experience.
Chinese Landscape Painting and the Art of Living
Marcello Ghilardi
2021
Abstract
This article deals with the Chinese ink painting tradition, as a paradigm in which art and life are coupled and intertwined. In fact, in Chinese classical aesthetics, art and life do not produce a dramatic tension, but are inscribed in a common process of naturalness or spontaneity (ziran). The painter has to learn how the breath, or vital energy (qi), that flows in every single image-phenomenon (xiang), can be enlivened by the brush strokes. Moreover, the paper builds a dialogue between the European and the Chinese main patterns. Showing alternately the continuity or the discontinuity between art and life, both traditions of thought display the possibility to learn a sort of “art of living”, through – and not despite – the dynamic de-coincidence that appears in the folds of human experience.
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