Wednesday, Nov. 14, 1962 University Daily Kansan
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Chinese, Western Art Similar, Lecturer Says
By Phillip Magers
"There is no gulf between the art of China and the art of the Western world," James Cahill, curator of the Freer Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, said last night.
Cahill spoke on "The Contemporary Relevance of Chinese Painting" at a Humanities lecture.
ZEN BUDDHISM and Taoism are often thought to be the basis for the thought behind Chinese painting, he said. He added, there is no such "gulf" between the two art worlds. In fact, there is an affinity.
He said all the contemporary Western art ideas of variation, flating dimension, retreat from "likeness" and art as a personal expression are present in Chinese painting and have been for ages.
He said too many times people of the Western world assume that Chinese painting is full of mysticism and Chinese religious belief.
"ONE LOOKS at the painting, and sees the artist," is an old Chinese saying that has been true in Chinese art for decades, he said.
Cahill said that expression in the modern art of the Western world has been present in the art of China for centuries.
With a series of slides on color and black and white paintings by Chinese artists from the 10th to the 17th centuries, Cahill exhibited this relationship between Western and Chinese art.
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AROUND the time of the 14th century, due to the Tartars and Mongols, many Chinese intellectuals fled to the south, Cehill said.
With the slides he showed the Chinese artist's emphasis on man and his life in the 10th century, then his later turn to the order in the universe.
This political and social upheaver showed in their painting, he said, and in many ways it is like contemporary Western painting.
Plans for the "Student Ambassador Flight" this summer will be announced at an all-student People-to-People meeting at 7 o'clock tonight in the Kansas Union.
Ambassador Flight Plans to Be Told
Tentative plans for the summer direct job exchange will also be discussed.
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