Discuss the role of landscape in Song painting
What will be an ideal response?
Essay responses should include these points:
• Landscape painting became the most esteemed means of personal and philosophic expression.
• The landscape was believed to embody the underlying principle behind all things.
• Like the spiritual quest of the Dao, the artist's task was to reveal the unifying principle of the natural world.
• The imitation of perfect nature in the paintings of the period is seen as an imitation of "the Way," the path traveled to attain the great unifying principle.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Defend your choice in the "style" of director (text, auteur, slash, thematic) that you might choose to direct a specific play
What will be an ideal response?
The Holy Family refers to
a. Mary, Jesus, and God. b. Jesus, God, and the Holy Ghost. c. Joseph, Mary, and the Holy Ghost. d. God, Joseph, Mary, and Jesus. e. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
The influence of ____ is evident in Rubens's heroic figures and foreshortened anatomy in his Elevation of the Cross
a. Michelangelo b. Carracci c. Masaccio d. Castagno