Gen Ed Requirements

So, here I am… cramming for a midterm in Chinese Landscape Painting.  Why, Shaun are you taking such a class?  Because, dear readers, the University requires its students to be well rounded… we want our History students to know some Biology, and we want our Chemistry students to be somewhat versed in foreign cultures… a noble idea, I suppose.

The painting above, if any of you were wondering, is a Song dynasty copy of Li Zhaodao’s “Emperor Minghuang’s Journey Into Shu.”  Please take note of the caravan’s serpentine progression allowing for various spatial planes of the composition to be connected.  Also of note is Li’s fine brush technique.  This affords figural detail within the composition, and yet still allows him to maintain a strong sense of perspective throughout