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Bushfire Coroboree Dreaming: Central Mountain By Wu Chen

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Central Mountain by Wu Chen is an illustration of mountains that would ordinarily be seen as uninteresting, but with the use of ink on the handscroll, ordinary mountains become a piece of artwork which can be intruiging and interesting to the eye.
Bushfire Coroboree Dreaming -Erna Monta
Bushfire Coroboree Dreaming by Erna Monta is an Australian Aboriginal piece that symbolizes both the past and present ancestral existence found in Australia's landscape. With various shapes and irregular patterns, the rythem of this piece is irregular.
"In Aboriginal art, the "Dreaming," or organizing principle, symbolizes the presence or mark of an ancestral being in the world."
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Central Mountain is a scroll painting by Wu Zhen and is used in meditation. Wu Zhen is considered one of the Four Masters of the Yuan Dynasty. His style of painting is called “literati or in the style of the educated class.” In Zhen’s Central Mountain, the mountains have rounded tops instead of pointed peaks. …show more content…

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