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la pintura de paisaje - Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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elemento más emocional <strong>de</strong> su trabajo. Sus procedimientos poseen técnicas paliativas que<br />

hacen innecesario el empleo <strong>de</strong>l c<strong>la</strong>roscuro, o <strong>de</strong>l sombreado. Otras cualida<strong>de</strong>s plásticas son<br />

tenidas en cuenta, y el panorama se entien<strong>de</strong> perfectamente sin necesidad <strong>de</strong> crear una<br />

sensación volumétrica en <strong>la</strong> obra:<br />

What is amazing is the way in which these painters [dinastía<br />

Song], working in ink and water-colour, succeed in expressing the<br />

conformation of the earth as well as the effects of atmosphere and of<br />

distance, with a persuasion of reality not less than Western artists<br />

achieve in the more solid medium of oils. They had inherited a<br />

gradually matured technical tradition which trained them in the various<br />

means of representation, they had an assured foundation of<br />

craftsmanship; and this set them free to put their whole force into the<br />

emotion they wished to communicate. It is by the quality of that<br />

emotion no less than by their intellectual grasp that we judge of their<br />

achievement. 1521<br />

El artista chino, es sobre todo un individuo centrado en el ta<strong>la</strong>nte lírico <strong>de</strong> su <strong>pintura</strong>,<br />

en su capacidad empática, en <strong>la</strong> sugestión que producen los elementos <strong>de</strong>scritos, en el<br />

observador. Su fin no es el virtuosismo técnico, sino <strong>la</strong> expresión:<br />

The typical Chinese artist at his best is not technical specialist<br />

having in view one particu<strong>la</strong>r feature of life and the world as is<br />

confined within a nicely chosen scientific perspective and treating with<br />

unswerving skill the most accurate <strong>de</strong>tails that are involved in that<br />

segregated perspective. He is an integral mind or creative spirit in<br />

whom the metaphysical impulse of a philosopher, the lyrical mood of a<br />

poet, the piercing eye of a painter, the <strong>de</strong>xterous mastery of a carver,<br />

the form-giving power of a musical composer, and, above all, the<br />

beatific vision of an inmost soul are melted into one synthetic whole,<br />

marshalling the quintessential reality and beauty of all-pervading life in<br />

1521 BINYON Laurence, The Spirit of... op. cit. p. 95: “Lo que es más sorpren<strong>de</strong>nte es <strong>la</strong> manera en <strong>la</strong><br />

que estos pintores [dinastía Song], trabajando con tinta y acuare<strong>la</strong>, tuvieron éxito en expresar <strong>la</strong><br />

conformación <strong>de</strong> <strong>la</strong> tierra, al igual que los efectos <strong>de</strong> atmósfera y <strong>de</strong> distancia, con una persuasión<br />

realista no inferior a <strong>la</strong> que los artistas occi<strong>de</strong>ntales consiguen con el medio más sólido <strong>de</strong>l óleo. Ellos<br />

habían heredado una tradición técnica gradualmente madurada, que les entrenaba en los distintos<br />

medios <strong>de</strong> representación, ellos poseían una base segura en el oficio; y ello les <strong>de</strong>jó libres para<br />

concentrar toda su fuerza en <strong>la</strong> emoción que <strong>de</strong>seaban comunicar. Es por <strong>la</strong> cualidad <strong>de</strong> esa emoción,<br />

al menos por su control intelectual, que juzgamos sus logros.”<br />

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