dragons in chinese art ... a scrapbook, to be consolidated as and when ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon#targetText=The%20dragon%20is%20also%20a,his%20imperial%20strength%20and%20power.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/40454

chen rong's nine dragons

https://beyond-calligraphy.com/2012/03/06/nine-sons-of-the-dragon-king/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Rong_(painter)

short introduction to the role of dragons in chinese culture, probably written for american tourists

https://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/article-chinese-dragons.htm

and an introduction to "bixi" ...

https://anotherglobaleater.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/the-zoology-of-dragons/

the nine dragon wall ... 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-Dragon_Wall

https://cdn.sanity.io/files/f23a1pgq/pma_production/62aeafe629c81130dac6b358ec766a0f6f3d6b18.pdf

A GOLD AND SILVER-INLAID BRONZE 'DRAGON' BRUSH REST Song/Yuan Dynasty Modelled in the form of two coiled archaistic dragons, both depicted with sharp eyes and decorated with gold and silver-inlays along the bodies, the elongated and wavy body moulded to hold brushes, the legs constructed to be the support, box. 15.6cm (6 1/8in) long 

... to be continued ...

leonardo's vitruvian man ... the museum in florence won't lend it ... and you can't blame them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvian_Man

the national health service act of 1946

an act of parliament from 1946 ... 

https://www.parliament.uk/…/coll-…/health-01/nhs-act-page-2/


the act was fiercely opposed ...

https://www.quora.com/Was-there-major-opposition-to-the-National-Health-Service-Act-1946-in-the-UK-as-there-is-for-the-Affordable-Care-Act-Obamacare-in-the-US-Why-or-why-not?fbclid=IwAR1iyFzctDQzR2cAKYvO5Vbv63SDGP0v4R5NB25t3taIkPy6NAJc_miK5yU



and at the final vote the opposition in the debate was led by Sir David Eccles, Conservative Member of Parliament for Chippenham 


https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=1946-07-26a.415.0



at the end of the debate ...

The House divided: Ayes, 261; Noes, 113.

aneurin bevan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan

sir david eccles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Eccles,_1st_Viscount_Eccles

the eighth century chinese painter Han Gan ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Gan

wind and rain and motion in classical chinese painting and in japanese art ... a scapbook, to be updated as and when ...

when first this page was almost completed, i inadvertently deleted it ... so i will start again and slowly cobble it together ...  i'll just be inserting links as and when i discover them ...

i had started out ... watchin rain falling on a temple in japan and wondering if chinese and japanese painters had a longer tradition than europeans of depicting wind and rain ?



but first i had to do some catch-up ...

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/chin/hd_chin.htm



the first one with rain in its title ... Wu Zhen, Bamboo In Spring Rain

i can see the misty atmosphere but the rain isn't very clear

https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/essay/wu-zhens-bamboo-in-spring-rain/



good intro to chinese classical art by mae anna pang ...

https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/essay/three-perfections-poetry-calligraphy-and-painting-in-chinese-art/



intro to nature in chinese art ...

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cnat/hd_cnat.htm



intro to chinese painting during the yuan dynasty ...

https://occcricketstats.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/3_yuan.pdf



turns out the above is extracted from this ...

https://occcricketstats.wordpress.com/2018/12/03/a-history-of-chinese-art/



it didn't take long to find an example of the depiction of wind ... painted by zhao mengfu before 1322

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Mengfu



zhao mengfu's self-portrait ...

interestingly, zhao mengfu's wife, guan daosheng, was also a landscape painter of some note and she rendered this landscape of bamboos shrouded in mist and cloud ..

she is also remembered for this poem ...

Married Love by Guan Daosheng

You and I Have so much love, That it Burns like a fire, In which we bake a lump of clay Molded into a figure of you And a figure of me. Then we take both of them, And break them into pieces, And mix the pieces with water, And mold again a figure of you, And a figure of me. I am in your clay. In life we share a single quilt. In death we will share a single coffin.

more chinese rain ... but maybe only implicit rain

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1985.227.2/

next up ... Dai Jin, 1388 to 1462 ... this is the only image I've found so far with marks that are clearly intended to signify rain ...

https://www.comuseum.com/painting/masters/dai-jin/boat-returning-amid-wind-and-rain/






eventually, in japan ... there was an artistic storm of rendered rain ...


from hokusai's manga, volume seven ...

kuniyoshi ...  Life of Nichiren: Prayer for Rain, c.1835

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utagawa_Kuniyoshi




Toyoshige, c.1830

Night Rain at Oyama: the Peak seen from the Fudo Temple in the foreground (Oyama yau, Zen fudo yori chojo no zu)
Toyokuni II Utagawa (Toyoshige)
Date: c. 1830

hiroshige, a younger rival of hokusai ... sudden shower in shono

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshige



my favourite by hokusai, from the mangas ...

found in ... https://www.metmuseum.org/pubs/bulletins/1/pdf/3263896.pdf.bannered.pdf


you can read the whole of volume seven here .... https://www.hokusai-katsushika.org/manga-seventh.html .... it contains several masterpieces

elton hayes' version of the owl and the pussycat was so much better than stravinsky's ...

the owl and the pussycat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1px6YW6xh5g



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_Hayes

Zhao Mengfu, and his supremely talented missus, Guan Daosheng

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Mengfu


http://www.chinaonlinemuseum.com/painting-zhao-mengfu.php

this painting, is by Zhao Mengfu's talented wife, Guan Daosheng ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guan_Daosheng

https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/guan-daosheng-1262-1319

One of Zhao Mengfu's best and simplest paintings was a “copy” or re-interpretation of this one by his wife, which he painted after her death and shortly before his own.

A short anecdote about their relationship ... In those days, court officials could afford more than one wife but the pair seemed happy enough.  However, later in life she learned that he was contemplating the acquisition of another concubine.  She wrote him this little poem and left it in a place where he would soon chance upon it.

You and I
Have so much love,
That it
Burns like a fire,
In which we bake a lump of clay
Moulded into a figure of you
And a figure of me.
Then we take both of them,
And break them into pieces,
And mix the pieces with water,
And mould again a figure of you,
And a figure of me.
I am in your clay.
In life we share a single quilt.
In death we will share a single coffin.

It was interesting for me to see how these painters dealt with space and perspective and temporal narratives, and how their Buddhist faith and studies led them towards a simpler style ... I had begun my inquiry whilst searching for any classical Chinese paintings that might show rain as it falls ... I only found one some time after these two lived  .... but the ramble through Chinese painting, and then wondering how they might have influenced great Japanese artists, eventually led me on to Tanaka Maho's excellent summary of Hockney's deeply informed responses to temporal and spatial perspectives in Chinese and Japanese art ... which I would like to encourage people to read ...

http://www.bigakukai.jp/aesthetics_online/aesthetics_21/text21/text21_tanakamaho.pdf

DJ Cummerbund's inspired mashup ...

RUSH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WddSQVTwj_Y




plus




KELIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6yShQ1mmcw




and with a bit of digital wriggle-room
equals




DJ CUMMERBUND

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B88TVYzhCPY

in japan on the train to okutama

netsuke ...