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The Textural Universe Poetic Gardens
The ancient Chinese painting principle of "From Nature to Mind" stresses the eternal unity and refinement of objective and subjective material in nature. The picture plane reflects the painter's artistic world, with self-cultivation as its aim. Master Yuan Jiaqi's landscape and garden masterpieces incorporate the aesthetic principles of Chinese landscape painting, using the distinct characteristics of jade carving to create paragons of our time. The first is the realm of the sages, of paradise, where mystic clouds billow over holy earth. Heaven and earth are interconnected in a world of myriad texture. The second is the landscape of classical poetry, centered on the creation of human figures within a constructed environment. These often give a sense of powerful boundlessness, with mountain and stone towering over the composition. The landscape is majestic and overwrought, offsetting the hero's spirit and fortitude. The third is the pastoral mode of landscape, which depicts the elegance and charm of the countryside. The imagery in these lyric poems extols nature and life, labor and harvest. With their lively, spirited, true-to-life human subjects, these environments look like holograms of ecological parks. The vivid and lifelike flowers, grass, and forest; mountain springs and streams; birds and beasts; livestock and insects-one is astounded that a landscape painting can contain such detailed and vivacious creatures. Under the Master's hand, plateaus are towering and majestic, and riverbanks are supple and beautiful. The flesh of the stone, the texture of the earth, the sinews of the trees, the tensile joints of the bamboo-we are moved by the minute compositional elements of the physical world. We cannot help but reach out and touch those roughly hewn symbols, to experience those exquisite and profound textures, to perceive the vastness of the universe as it becomes plain to the mind's eye. These ample rivers and mountains steady one's footsteps. In this light jade carving, one sees a classic Chinese aesthetic effect, "From afar, they look imposing. Yet up close, one sees their texture."
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