Chapter 6 | WORKS OF ART

The Chinese artist Ni Youyu makes several very large paintings of forests. The image only shows about half of such a large painting (200 x 240 cm.).

The trunks are smooth and straight and about the same distance from each other. There are no branches painted, so the trunks almost look like pillars. The forest seems to go on endlessly in the distance. The further away the thinner, vaguer and lighter the trees are painted. The front tree runs all the way from the bottom to the top of the frame. You can’t see where it stands in the ground. From the trees further away we can see where the trunk comes out of the ground, slightly higher to show that a tree is further away.