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Landscape Drawing Los Angeles

Traditionally, focal points in a landscape have been thought of as statues, sculptures, topiaries, structures, follies, water features, or individual plant specimens. How about topographic foci, though?<br>Mountains (and water) have been emphasised in Chinese Landscape Drawing Los Angeles art for ages. And similarly, whether in a huge landscape or tiny garden design, this was also the focus of Chinese landscape architecture.

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Landscape Drawing Los Angeles

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  1. Landscape Drawing Los Angeles Traditionally, focal points in a landscape have been thought of as statues, sculptures, topiaries, structures, follies, water features, or individual plant specimens. How about topographic foci, though? Mountains (and water) have been emphasised in Chinese Landscape Drawing Los Angeles art for ages. And similarly, whether in a huge landscape or tiny garden design, this was also the focus of Chinese landscape architecture. These features were and still are represented by rocks and boulders. With a more naturalistic, "unbuilt" form, they offer the same or a similar vertical focus as a statue, building, or folly would. Along with serving as foci, they serve as destination points. the level or lower-lying ground plane, in stark contrast. People are psychologically and naturally drawn to explore their own mysteries during depressive episodes with the goal of eventually climbing back up to higher territory. Landscape is referred to in Chinese as "shanshui," which literally translates to "mountains and water." Fantastic boulders in gardens symbolise the untamed majesty of the Chinese environment and the massive, immovable mountain ranges that contrast with the rivers and streams that make up the "yang" (soft, wet and cool, restorative qualities). The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has a fantastic exhibition that accentuates these organic shapes. The main inspiration for these ancient Chinese gardens comes from mountains and their metaphorical representations, which are boulders and rocks. The "Yuan Ye," also known as The Craft of Gardens, by Ji Cheng is the oldest surviving and possibly the first manual on landscape gardening in Chinese history. It is a great work on garden design and was first published about 1631. The emphasis Ji Cheng places on the necessity of tailoring a garden's layout and contents to its natural environment immediately gains the respect of contemporary Western gardeners. Alexander Pope, his counterpart in Western philosophy, hired designers to consult the local genius. That is to say, landscape designs should always be modified to fit their surroundings. It pays special attention to how the rocks and boulders are chosen since they serve as conceptual foundations for the garden and are thus an integral element of the landscape.

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