Vide et plein. Le langage pictural chinois. Religion C’est dire que ce volume

C’est dire que ce volume

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The manuscripts of Mont Saint-Michel: founding texts-I

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around a great question which is essentially that of our relationship with nature

Vide et plein. Le langage pictural chinois. Religion C’est dire que ce volumeThe aim of Chinese painting is to create a microcosm, "truer than Nature itself" (Tsung Ping): this is only achieved by restoring the vital breaths that animate the Universe; thus the painter seeks to capture the internal lines of things and to fix the relationships they maintain between them, hence the importance of the line. But these lines of force can only be embodied on a background which is the Void. It is therefore necessary to create the Void