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Father,
The brush painting of a man riding a horse is an “impressionism” of the character for horse.
Cf: http://www.pvcarswell.com/images/uploads/horse.jpg
Beautiful.
Actually the image is comprised of a four-Chinese-character idiom, which means “success immediately upon arrival”.
Great translation of a beautiful poem :)
It clearly exhudes a sad background to ‘optimistic’ words.
NOTHING is so beautiful as spring—
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;
The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.
What is all this juice and all this joy?
A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning
In Eden garden.—Have, get, before it cloy,
Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,
Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,
Most, O maid’s child, thy choice and worthy the winning.
–Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918)
…Actually the image is comprised of a four-Chinese-character idiom, which means “success immediately upon arrival”…..</i.
Dunno about that … the main image in black of a man riding a horse is definitely an artistic rendition of the modern ideogram — which harkens back to the original ideogram for “horse.”
illus 1: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Ma_sigil.png
illus 2: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Chinese_character_Shang_oracle_%E9%A6%AC_ma3_horse.gif
illus 3: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/%E9%A6%AC-clerical.png
–GHP
The four Chinese characters that make up the image are: ma (horse) dao (arrive), cheng (accomplish, achieve), gong (merit, work). While the horse is the character of “ma”, the rider with a sword is comprised of other three characters.
http://pic17.eachnet.com/user_2015828670/product/%E5%90%8D%E5%AE%B6%E4%B9%A6%E6%B3%95/%E4%B8%AA%E6%80%A7%20%E9%A9%AC%E5%88%B0%E6%88%90%E5%8A%9F2.jpg
The link shows the four characters (the larger four characters, read from right to left, written in semi-cursive style).
Theodorus,
Thanks! Now I see it! Well … I can only clearly make out “ko” [Japanese for “kung”] in the rider. I can better read them in the greyed-out text in the background. Very inventive, indeed.
I’ve seen similar treatments with “tatsu” [long/dragon] by a Korean artist (Seoul, 1989) who was famous for his single-stroke style; you can see the ideogram “dragon,” but the first thing you notice is that it LOOKS like a dragon.
Again, many thanks!
–ghp