Yun's restrained vertical bands evoke a more serene and bucolic Rothko, with whom he shared
his spiritual connection to the natural world, and provide a gentler, kinder and ultimately more intimate cognizance.
Not exact matches
The latter, particularly, points
to a religious or ritual function
to these carvings, and indeed
to the practice of a form of «shamanism» — that is, an archaic magical or religious belief system which sought
connections between the visible and spirit
worlds, and which ascribes
spiritual properties
to animals and
natural forces.
Their work reflects a hybrid of Western and Eastern cultures, values and beliefs and examines symmetrical patterns and forms and their
connection to the
spiritual and
natural world.
Mountain - water paintings, dating from five dynasties (Song, Jin, Yuan, Ming, and Qing), were viewed with varied philosophical and
spiritual imperatives in their depiction of the
natural world and
connection to mysticism — the land of the spirit
world and the embodiment of heaven.