Luo Mi 
Natural Creatures in Museums [EPUB ebook] 

There are 27 notable Chinese and international paintings that portray 27 different natural styles, ranging from water and ink dotted landscape paintings to oil color dotted color paintings, from concrete to abstract. The ordinary and rare Xianjiang River, Su Shi’s Dead Wood and Strange Stone Painting, Mi Fu’s landscape painting of Cloud Mountain Ink Play Painting, the jeweled golden Eternal Territorial Integrity Gold Cup, the copper gilded inlaid enamel basin, coral, chrysanthemum and bonsai, and other ancient Chinese works are included in the first half of this book with the theme of life and everything in nature. These works demonstrate the methods and philosophical wisdom. The second half in this book is devoted to masterpieces of western art that use nature as their subject of description. Examples include View of Toledo, which represents the historic Spanish city of Toledo, and other well-known Impressionism pieces including Impression Sunrise, Sunflower, and Water Lilies. Additionally, there are innovative Surrealist works like The Persistence of Memory and abstract pieces like Broadway Boogie Woogie and Lavender Mist that appear challenging and complex yet have clear traces. This book encourages readers to visit museums both in China and overseas, from prehistoric to present times, to learn about the appreciation of nature and the investigation of it by people from many nations and eras via artistic creations.