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Slide show prepared by Charles Hartman (SUNY Albany, NY) for his students.  Wonderful site with 53 slides (each enlargeable), beginning with a painted pottery jar, c.3000 BC, and continuing chronologically through the various schools of classic Chinese landscape paintings.  Daoist-influenced works include:
Zhuangzi
Metaphysics
Early
Fan Kuan [11th c.]: Travelers Among Mountains and Streams
Later
Kuo Hsi [Guo Xi, 11th c.]: Early Spring
Yijing
Ma Yuan [12th-13th c.]: On a Mountain Path in Spring
Fengshui
Ma Yuan: Bare Willows and Distant Hills [fan]
Alchemy
Hsia Kuei [Xia Gui, 13th c.]: Sailboat in the Rain [fan]
Practical
Hsia Kuei [Xia Gui]: Pure and Remote Views of Hills and Streams
Therapeutic
Huang Kung-wang [Huang Gongwang, 13th-14th c.]: Living in the Fu-ch'un Mountains
Political
Art
Wu Chen [Wu Zhen, 13th-14th c.]: Bamboo
Poetry
Ni Tsan [Ni Zan, 14th c.]: Six Worthies
Literature
Wang Meng [14th c.]: Hermit Dwelling in the Ch'ing-pien Mountains
Music
Tai Chin [Dai Jin, 15th c.]: Returning Home in Spring
Sermons
Tai Chin [Dai Jin]: Fisherman
Tao of...
Shen Chou [Shen Zhou, 15th c.]: Landscape in the Manner of Ni Tsan
Resources
Shen Chou [Shen Zhou]: Bottle Gourd Immortal
Wen Cheng-ming [Wen Zhenming, 16th c.]: Handscroll, ink on paper
Northern Song Landscape Painting
http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/painting/tptgnsla.htm
From "A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization," prepared by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and others, through the University of Washington (WA).  This page focuses on Fan Kuan's Travelers Among Mountains and Streams and Guo Xi's Early Spring, providing close-ups of various sections and study questions.  Click through to "Southern Song Landscape Painting" for a similar treatment of Ma Yuan's On a Mountain Path in Spring and Xia Gui's Streams and Mountains with a Clear Distant View.  Then on to "Yuan Landscape Painting" (Wang Meng's The Orchard Chamber; Ni Zan's Still Streams and Winter Pines; Huang Gongwang's Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains).
"Guo Xi developed a stragegy of depicting multiple perspectives called 'the angle of totality.'  Because a painting is not a window, there is no need to imitate the mechanics of vision and view a scene from only one spot."
Nature Philosophy: Chinese Landscape Painting - Song Dynasty
www.pitt.edu/~asian/week-10/week-10.2.html
Page for students of K. M. Linduff (University of Pittsburgh, Art History), with sample works (click to enlarge), outlines, terms, and an excerpt from Linduff's textbook chapter on the subject.
"One cannot take a panoramic view from a single position from outside the painting [Li Cheng's Solitary Temple Amid Clearing Peaks] , and the artist does not intend that we do so.  Rather, little by little, Nature is revealed as if we were actually walking in the out-of-doors.  In this sense the painter combines the element of time in this art form in much the same way as in music."
Traditional Chinese Painting -- The Literati Tradition
www.indiana.edu/~ealc100/Art1.html
Thirteen-part overview, with graphics, including Shen Zhou's Listening to the Cicadas and Wen Zhengming's Old Trees.  From the Indiana University server. 
"Wen's work expresses perfectly the central theme of thousands of literati paintings -- painting was a medium that, in Confucian manner, borrowed tradition in order to perfect self-expression and communication.  And the vehicle for self-expression, in Daoist manner, was most often images of nature and the theme of the solitary man, or group of friends, alone in the vastness of the natural Way."
The National Palace Museum (Taiwan)
www.npm.gov.tw/en/collection/selections_01.htm
Among the museum's holdings (most include a brief text and are enlargeable):
Ma Yuan: Riding a Dragon (click "immortal" in the  text for a closeup of the figure)
Ma Yuan: Egrets on a Snowy Bank
Wu Chen [Wu Zhen]: Twin Pines
Wu Chen: Manual of Ink - Bamboo
Wu Chen: Fishing in Reclusion on Lake Tung-t'ing
Shang Hsi [Shang Xi]: Four Immortals Pay Homage to the God of Longevity
Shih-t'ao [Tao Chi / Daoji]: Self-Portrait Planting Pine Trees
Juran: Seeking the Tao in the Autumn Mountains
www.asianart.com/exhibitions/taoism/20.html
Tenth-century landscape from the "Taoism and the Arts of China" exhibition (San Francisco).  Buddhist painter; Daoist subject.
Guo Xi: Early Spring
www.texaschapbookpress.com/magellanslog4/kuohsi.htm
This is the same painting as in the "Chinese Art" slide show, but the Magellan's Log site has an amazing enlargement of it, with music.
Guo Xi: Old Trees, Level Distance [detail]
www.metmuseum.org/special/Cultivated_Landscapes/3.L.htm
From the 2002-2003 Cultivated Landscapes: Reflections of Nature in Chinese Painting exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMOA).
Ma Yuan: Scholar by a Waterfall
www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/07/eac-hob_1973.120.9.htm
From the MMOA site's Timeline of Art History.  This is the large view; click for description.  But note that the authenticity of this work has been questioned (scroll 3/4 down).
Ma Yuan: Viewing Plum Blossoms by Moonlight
www.metmuseum.org/explore/Chinese/html_pages/plum1.htm
From the MMOA site's "Explore and Learn" series.  With clickable details.
Ma Yuan: Plum Tree and Ducks by a Stream
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0q2n976s
Enlargeable, with brief text, including James Cahill's (Professor Emeritus, History of Art Dept., University of Michigen and Berkeley) account of its purchase.  From the Berkeley Art Museum, on the Online Archive of California site.
Xia Gui: Mountain Market in Clearing Mist
www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ssong/hod_13.100.102.htm
From the MMOA site's Timeline of Art History.  Enlargeable.
Xia Gui: Pure and Remote Views of Mountains and Streams
www.chineseartnet.com/Nigensha/p44-1a.jpg
From the National Palace Museum (Taiwan), on the Chinese Art Net site (NY).  Details here and here.
Chen Rong: The Nine Dragons
www.stolaf.edu/courses/2004sem1/Art_and_Art_History/259/ArtsChina/9dragons.html
Detail from the 13th-century dragon painter's famous handscroll, with commentary by Kyle Reicks (student, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN).  See the entire work here (in 40 segments) at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts site.
Qian Xuan: Wang Xizhi Watching Geese
www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/yuan/hod_1973.120.6.htm
Thirteenth-century painting of the 4th-century Daoist alchemist/calligrapher.  MMOA's Timeline of Art History.  From the artist's inscription: 
"...Writing the Daodejing for a Daoist friend, / He leaves behind a romantic image - a man who loves geese."
Qian Xuan: Dwelling in the Floating Jade Mountains
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Qian_Xuan_2.jpg
From the Wikimedia Commons site.
Wu Zhen: Lofty Virtue Reaching the Sky
www.metmuseum.org/special/ccwang99/se_ccwang99_object_t_36.htm
1338 enlargeable hanging scroll, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's (MMOA) "The Artist as Collector" exhibit, featuring paintings from the C. C. Wang collection.  But note the controversy over the authenticity of a number of paintings from this collection.
Huang Kung-wang [Huang Gongwang] (1269-1354): Nine Pearl Peaks
www.oocities.org/Chinesetreasure/y_NinePearlPeak.htm
With brief bio, from the Chinese Treasures site.  Click to enlarge.
"He held an official position for a period and then left to become a Taoist priest.  He spent the remainder of his life in the Fu-Ch'un Mountains near Hangchou."
Huang Gongwang: Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains
www.chineseartnet.com/Nigensha/p13a.jpg
From the National Palace Museum (Taiwan), on the Chinese Art Net site.  Details here and here.
Huang Kung-wang: Landscape Painting Album
www.hkartclub.com/painting/painting315.html
Eight enlargeable paintings with text, from the Hong Kong Art and Collectibles Club.
Zhang Yucai: Beneficent Rain
www.metmuseum.org/special/Great_Waves/bene_rain.r.htm
Enlargeable painting by "the thirty-eighth pope (r. 1285-1316) of the Zhengyi ('Orthodox Unity') Daoist church."  Brief text also mentions Chen Rong.  MMOA's "Great Waves" exhibit.
Ni Zan: Woods and Valleys of Mount Yu
www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/yuan/hod_1973.120.8.htm
From the MMOA site's Timeline of Art History.  Brief text and enlargeable graphic.  But note the controversy over the attribution of this work (scroll midway down).
"Having lost or given away everything he ever owned, he did his best to forget his worries.  Wearing a yellow (Daoist) cap and country clothes, he roamed the lakes and mountains, leading a recluse's life."
Ni Zan: Water and Bamboo Dwelling
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Ni_Zan_Water_and_Bamboo_Dwelling.jpg
From the Wikimedia Commons site.
Wang Meng: The Simple Retreat
www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/yuan/hod_L.1997.24.8.htm
From the MMOA site's Timeline of Art History.   Enlargeable, with description.
"The auspicious Daoist imagery of fungus, crane, and deer as well as the archaic simplicity of the figures and dwelling evoke a dreamlike vision of paradise."
Fang Congyi: Bridge on the Creek
http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bridge_on_the_Creek_by_Fang_Congyi.jpg
Fourteenth-century painting by a Daoist monk/artist. 
Tai Chin (Dai Jin): Summer Trees Casting Shade
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3489n5jp/
Fifteenth-century scroll from the Berkeley Art Museum, on the Online Archive of California site, with brief biography and an account of the painting's authentication by James Cahill.
Shen Zhou: Lofty Mount Lu
www.chineseartnet.com/Nigensha/p15.jpg
From the National Palace Museum (Taiwan), on the Chinese Art Net site.  Click to enlarge.
Shenzhou: "singing on early spring"
www.cnarts.net/eweb/Collection/collector/sunjian/sjcp/shenzhou/
From the Chinese Arts site, with brief text and three "zoom in" options.
Chen Zhou [Shen Zhou]: Poet on a Mountain Top
www.chinapage.org/painting/shenchou/shenchou3.html
And see two more Shen Zhou paintings (untitled) from the Chinapage site here and here.
An Gyeon: "Dream Journey to the Immortal-Peach Orchard"
http://san-shin.org/Mongyudowondo.html
Fifteenth-century Korean painting.  With details and brief text by David Mason, from his San-shin site on Korean Mountain-spirits.
Wen Cheng-ming (Wen Zhengming): The Temple at Mt. Chih-P'ing
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft987006f7/
Enlargeable 1516 painting, with text, including a quote from James Cahill pertaining to is authenticity.  From the Berkeley Art Museum, on the Online Archive of California site.
Wen Cheng-ming: Trees in a Valley
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5489n6z0/
Late-period (1549) painting, with James Cahill's comments on its recent history. Click to enlarge.  Berkeley Art Museum. 
Wen Zhengming: Living Aloft: Master Liu's Retreat
www.metmuseum.org/special/Cultivated_Landscapes/1.L.htm
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art's (MMOA) "Cultivated Landscapes" exhibit (the enlarged view).
Wen Zhengming: The First Prose Poem on the Red Cliff
www.dia.org/collections/asian/76.3.htm
Includes a portion of the Su Dongbo poem it depicts.  Click to enlarge.  Detroit Institute of Arts.
Wen Zhengming: Old Trees by a Cold Stream
www.chineseartnet.com/Nigensha/p47a.jpg
From the Chinese Art Net site.  Click to enlarge.
Song Hsu (Song Xu): Waterfall in Winter
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft1r29n4k1/
Sixteenth-century literati painter, who "lived in a Taoist temple."  Enlargeable.  Berkeley Art Museum.
Unkoku Togan: Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
www.miho.or.jp/booth/html/artcon/00003257e.htm
Pair of six-panel screens by the 16th-century Japanese artist, with brief text.  From the MIHO Museum (Japan).
"The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove are a group of seven lofty gentlemen who fled the troubles that accompanied the transition between China's Wei and Jin dynasties (mid 3rd century) and assembled in a bamboo grove where they forgot all of their worldly troubles, losing themselves in pure thought and discussion.  This tale was a favored painting theme in Japan..."
Qiu Ying: The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/cassidy/cassidy1-10-13.asp
The Seven were a favored subject for Chinese artists too, as exemplified by this fan from 16th-century China.   From Artnet online magazine.
Lu Zhi: Zhuangzi Dreaming of a Butterfly
www.asianart.com/exhibitions/taoism/butterfly.html
16th century painting from the "Taoism and the Arts of China" site (San Francisco).
Zhang Lu: Laozi on an Ox
www.asianart.com/exhibitions/taoism/1.html
Painting from the Ming dynasty, mid-16th century.  From the "Taoism and the Arts of China" site (San Francisco).
The Enlightening Remarks on Painting by Shih-Tao [Daoji]
www.bergerfoundation.ch/Shitao/enlightening.html
From a 1989 monograph by Richard E. Strassberg (UCLA, Chinese), on the c. 1700 painter Daoji's (Shih-T'ao or Tao Chi) essays on paintings.  See also Strassberg's translation of Daoji's "The Holistic Brushstroke."
"Both thematically and in rhetorical style, the Enlightening Remarks reveals a profound debt to Taoism, particularly the Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu."
About a leaf from Tao-chi's [Daoji] Album for Taoist Yu
http://chrisashley.net/weblog/archives/week_2004_12_12.html
Chris Ashley (artist, educator, Oakland, CA) gives his impressions of a Daoji painting (scroll midway down).  And halfway down this page you can see Daoji's Drunk in Autumn Woods, with commentary by Richard Barnhart.
"The faceless figure sitting in the pavilion is barely there, insignificant, merging with the mountainside.  The red peaks in the left background show us just how far away and isolated this place is, yet I am startled to realize that this painting is three hundred years old; it seems so contemporary, and it speaks to me across all these many years."
Daoji: The Waterfall on Mount Lu
www.ljhammond.com/cwgt/qing.htm
With brief commentary from James Cahill.  From L. James Hammond's site.
Cho Sok-jin: Laoz Leaving on the Ox-back
www.duckdaotsu.org/beginning1.html
Painting of the Old Master from the late 19th or early 20th century.  On the duckdaotsu "anti war, pro G.I. site" (CO).
Faces of Laozi
http://daolao.narod.ru/laofaces.htm
Delightful collection of over 150 online images of Laozi, from classic drawings, paintings and carvings to modern graphics, each enlargeable.  Fom Yuri Kanchukov's site (Sergiev Posad, Russia).  Russian text, but the graphics are wonderful!  This is the one-page version, or you can choose to view it split into 16 pages starting here.
Time and Space in Chinese Narrative Paintings of Han and the Six Dynasties
http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-ENG/chen.htm
Journal article by Pao-chen Chen.  The second half, "The Rise of Landscape Painting in Southern China," discusses the effect of Neo-Daoist philosophy on Chinese art.
"...the Famous 'Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove'... engaged in witty dialectic conversation, known as 'pure talk'... and lived on special diets, some of which included an arsenic compound called the 'Five-mineral-powder,' to attain longevity.  When taking this medicine they had to drink cold liquor and take walking excursions in order to avoid arsenic poisoning..."
A Look at Chinese Painting: Glossary of Key Terms
www.metmuseum.org/explore/Chinese/html_pages/glossary.htm
Learn about brushes and ink, colophons and handscrolls, from the MOMA site.
The Tao of Chinese Landscape Painting
www.noteaccess.com/Texts/Wong/WongT1.htm
Excerpts from the book by Wucius Wong (landscape painter), published by Design Press (NY, 1991).  Philosophical and practical aspects of Chinese landscape painting.  This is just one of seven pages of excerpts.
"In realizing nature in a painting, the artist strives not to re-create the appearances but to re-establish a vital breath in the forms, marks, textures, and spaces.  This vital breath refers to a self-generating life force, which the Chinese call ch'i, air.  Showing the presence of a vital breath, a painting is no longer a dead thing, but has acquired a life of its own."
Taoism and the Arts of China [Chicago]
www.artic.edu/taoism/menu.php
Site for the exhibition (2000-2001), from the Art Institute of Chicago.  Timeline, glossary, tour, and more.   Predominantly religious Daoist art.
Taoism and the Arts of China [San Francisco]
www.asianart.com/exhibitions/taoism/
23 images (each enlargeable) from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco incarnation of the Taoism and the Arts of China exhibit.
The Sacred Landscape
www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9306/9306.excerpt.html
By Stephen Little, curator of Asian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.  Chapter from the "Taoism and the Arts of China" catalogue points out the religious import of Chinese landscape paintings.
"The divine correspondence between the outer terrestrial and Inner landscape of the human body is a fundamental aspect of Taoist techniques of visualization and inner Alchemy..."
Taoism and the Arts of China [article]
www.artnet.com/magazine/features/cassidy/cassidy1-10-01.asp
Informative article by Victor M. Cassidy (journalist, Chicago) includes numerous illustrations (each enlargeable), descriptions, and historical notes.  From Artnet online magazine.
"Some Taoist artists had public reputations, but most were anonymous artisans who worked for a patron or temple.  Some workshops employed families, which passed control from generation to generation.  Artists learned by apprenticing themselves to a master."
San Qing: The Three Purities (or Pure Ones)
www2.Kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln472/Purities.htm
Paintings of three "Celestial Worthies" (San Qing means "three pure ones"), posted by Joseph A. Adler (Kenyon College, Religion) for his students.  See also paintings of The Three Star Gods, Marshal Wen, and Taoist Ritual at the Imperial Court.
Haffenreffer's new exhibit a rare find
www.brown.edu/Administration/George_Street_Journal/vol26/26GSJ26d.html
Article by Mary Jo Curtis from the George Street Journal (Brown University) on the exhibition, "Dragon Bridges: Taoist Paintings of the Mien" at the Haffenreffer Museum (Bristol), a collection of 17th-century Daoist folk paintings.
"A recent translation of the text revealed the paintings are some 200 years older than first thought."
Daoist Gods and Immortals in Chinese Painting
www.aasianst.org/absts/2000abst/China/C-144.htm
Four abstracts of presentations at the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting, 2000, by Stephen Little, Shih-shan Susan Huang (Yale), Sheng-chih Lin (Kyoto National University), and Insoo Cho.
Adolph Jentsch - Prayers in Print
www.adolphjentsch.com/adolph-jentsch-essay.html
Magazine article on German-Namibian landscape painter Jentsch (1888-1977), by artist Mark Meaker.
"For a fuller understanding of Jentsch's art, it is necessary to have a working knowledge of the ancient Chinese philosophy of Taoism, to which Jentsche adhered, and which informed so much of his oeuvre."
Huang Yong Ping... Conflating Dada and Taoism
www.maverick-arts.com/cgi-bin/MAVERICK?action=article&issue=239
2006 article by Charles Giuliano (artist, curator, critic, Boston) from his Maverick Arts ezine, on Ping's retrospective at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
"What is most compelling about Ping, and the other major contemporary Chinese, avant-garde artists, is the manner in which they are deeply rooted in their indigenous Taoist culture..."
Atelier Rene Boll
www.rene-boell.de/content/texte/presse_2.htm
"Extracts of text compiled by Brigitte Segschneider-Bruckner, 'Awareness of Emptiness,'" on the German artist's widely exhibited watercolors, etchings, and oil paintings.  A compilation of quotes from various reviews.  Most of the site is in German, but click "Atelier," "Editionen," and "Service" to see more graphics.  And here's the link to Boll's Chinese ink paintings.
"Boll's understanding of artistic creation is shaped by the spirit of Chinese philosophy, in particular the spirit of Daoism, the essence of which is characterized by the deep respect for the freedom of man as the condition for the development of his ethical power."
Introduction to the Rene Boll exhibition "Silence Without a Name"
www.dickinson.edu/departments/germn/walltowall/exhibition.html
Essay by Anne Engelhardt-Ng (Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA), from a Department of German class taught by Wolf Muller and David Strand, focusing on the Daoist elements of Boll's art.  And see Boll's interview by the World Printmakers site, in which he discusses the role of Daoism in his work.
"At the center of Rene Boll's aesthetics of colour is harmonization - a harmonization which relies on the Chinese concept of Yin and Yang, in which opposing as well as complementing elements are taken to be a natural whole... Rene Boll has coined the terms 'to yingify' and 'to yangify' to describe the change of colours from the warm pole to the cold pole, a change full of nuances."
Heavy Metal
www.westword.com/1996-05-09/culture/heavy-metal/
Article from the Denver Westword magazine by Michael Paglia on Mark di Suvero's sculpture "Lao Tzu" at the Denver Civic Center.  See image here.
"Not only is di Suvero arguably the greatest living sculptor (there can be no argument that he's at least one of them), but 'Lao Tzu' is among his greatest accomplishments."
Robert Koskta: Paintings from the Ghost Dance and Dragon Line Series
www.meridiangallery.org/kostka.htm
2001 exhibition at the Meridian Gallery (San Francisco) of the abstract artist's Daoist-inspired series of paintings.
Shozo Kajima
www.jpin.co.jp/saoh/kajima2.htm
Japanese artist, poet, professor, who published two books on Laozi.  This page from the Tokyo Gallery Saoh features several of his "comtemporary literati paintings."
Crazy Devil Sweeping: A Janitor's Reflections on Art and Tao
www.angelfire.com/sk/syukhtun/cds.html
Excerpt from a book in progress by Theo Radic (artist, musician, Taijiquan instructor, janitor).  And see five pages of his visual art works beginning here.
"When a sense of sacredness is absent in any given practice, it ceases to be an Art.  Art is the 'way' with a lower case 'w', just as the artist is the 'creator' with a lower case 'c'.  Art is the 'way' as applies to human creation, Tao is the 'Way' as applies to all Creation."
Does the Butterfly Dream
www.ci.oswego.or.us/loart/h58.htm
A contemporary collage by Alice Van Leunen, based on Zhuangzi's dream.
Chuangtse's Dream
www.mycleheupel.com/image.php?select=90_09
Artwork by musician/artist Mycle Heupel (Barcelona).  See his bio here.
Qian Xiaochun: Zhuangzi's Butterfly Dream
www.silkqin.com/04qart/07sqmp/60zzmd.htm
From John Thompson's quqin (Chinese zither) site.
Doris Sung: Wandering Boundless and Free - A Visual Trajectory
www.yorku.ca/agyu/exhibitions/sung.html
2004 multimedia exhibition of a York University (Toronto) grad student.  Sample work and brief text.
"In Daoism, the mutual dependency of all things leads to the deconstruction of the binary opposition of subject and object and thus conveys the elimination of hierarchies and the privileging of one position over another."
The Artist, the Sage, and the Butterfly: Ideas and Aesthetic Enjoyment in "Post-Conceptual" Art
www.michaelzheng.org/portfolio/essay_clark.html
Conference presentation and exhibition essay by Clark Buckner (gallery director and teacher, San Francisco) focuses on Michael Zheng's 2006 show at the Mission 17 gallery.  View images from the show here.
"He orchestrated deceptions, pierced the veil of these deceptions, and left the viewer wondering which of the two to believe, the illusion or the truth offered to explain it away - Chuang Tzu or the butterfly."
the zenophilia series
www.koanic.com/
Welsh "taoartist/writer" bob harbinson presents dozens of pages of Zen/Dao art and poetry.
"the symmetry of natural form / its fractal silence / shows the tao."
Fantasy Art of Marilyn Radzat
www.marilynradzat.com/galleryII.html
Gallery II of the Kahuku Hawaii artist features seven collage sculptures depicting "Insignia of Taoist Magic."  Detailed fantasy figures made of ceramic, fabric, beads, shells, sea glass, and other natural and found materials.
Peggy Kwong-Gordon: "Meditations on the Tao"
www2.kenyon.edu/ArtGallery/exhibitions/0203/kwong-gordon/kwong-gordon.htm
Review of Kwong-Gordon's 2002 installation at the Kenyon College Olin Art Gallery.
"The two primary works in this exhibition - consisting of hanging paper scrolls and body casts - are each inscribed with five chapters (1, 6, 8, 10, and 11) of the 81 chapter Tao Te Ching..."
I Ching Book of Changes, Works by Inga Schnekenburger
www.onlinekunst.de/iging/
The "legendary" German artist illustrates ten Yijing hexagrams.  Click to enlarge.
The Tao of Qing Huang
www.abc.net.au/arts/strange/articles/huang.htm
Marian Quigley's (Monash University, Australia) article on computer animation artist Qing, who bases his work on Philosophical Daoism.  Here's a synopsis of Qing's award-winning short film, "The Way," with a link to the film itself, and here's his free online workshop on "Painterly Effects in Maya [software]."  From the Australia Broadcasting Corporation site.
"The Way gives traditional Chinese ink-brush aesthetics new life through cutting-edge CGI techniques and shows us the direction of a new generation of digital animators."
I Ching [needlepoint]
http://janhaag.com/NP01iching.html
By Jan Haag, poet and artist.  The pattern depicts the 64 Yijing hexagrams.
The Tao of Architecture
www.archidose.org/Nov99/110199.html
A few excerpts from Amos Ih Tiao Chang's 1956 book, introduced by John Hill (Chicago).  Fom Hill's site, A Weekly Dose of Architecture.
"Chang uses Lautzu's Tao-Te-Ching as a template for a text on creating architecture, specifically intangible content's importance in architectural composition over tangible form."
Environmental Aesthetics and Chinese Gardens
http://afrodita.rcub.bg.ac.yu/~pajin/gardens/
Long paper by Dusan Pajin (University of Belgrade, Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics) on the Chinese "garden as an environmental work of art," influenced by Daoist and Buddhist principles.
"In philosophical Taoism, entering the separate reality of the Taoist vision is conjunction of the inward, and outward: a passage to the seat of the spiritual (ling fu) and the gateway (- men) of ten thousand mysteries (miao) as explained by Lao Tzu (chapter 1)."
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