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... France. At that time Realism and classicism were in vogue. 1 " Chinese Art depicts the harmony of the universe. It has nothing in common with Western art which wants to represent the particularities, of natural appearances. His landscapes are not Particular landscapes behind the particular is the general. Chinese art conceives Nature as animated by an immanent force and the object of the artists... art and by European methods. It was only in Calcutta at the end of the last century that an English artist of exceptional calibre, Mr. E. B. Havell, introduced on his own responsibility I "Chinese art has consistent history and is even more persistent than the art of Egypt. It is more than national. 30 Centuries before Christ it began and yet Europe has not been able to enter into the spirit of... execution of work. But Nature was not the chief subject for the artist—in Europe as it was to the Chinese or the Japanese artist. To him Nature mainly existed for man. In Japanese and Chinese art Nature exists independently of man. The attempt to portray the mood of Nature which we find in these far eastern countries has very few parallels in European art. In their art Nature becomes a living ...