Rare display of British landscape works in China
By ZHANG KUN |
China Daily |
Updated: 2018-05-08 08:10
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When you see some Chinese landscape paintings, especially the long scrolls, you follow a story as the painting spreads, presenting a narrative that is evolving, but usually in a Western painting, only one moment is represented, Lyles says.
However, sometimes the artist paints the landscape in such a way that it encourages the viewer to imagine what happened before that scene and what might come next, she adds.
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