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Landscape vignettes
Miniature landscape paintings, exercises in technique. The originals are smaller than postcard size, the flowers half that.
From 'The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols & Techniques' (Robert Beer, Serindia, 2004):
'Meticulous gradations on the shading of flowers, clouds, rocks, and sky, are invariably the hallmark of finely painted thangka. The most delicate shading of these components takes long periods of time to accomplish. A painted flower is believed to be perfect if it has received a hundred shading applications. As the visionary poet William Blake observed, "A little flower is the product of ages, and eternity is in love with the products of time." ' (p.42)
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