Question

Which of the following is true about Japanese calligraphy and painting?
a.
There is a philosophical link in the importance of the present moment in Zen, and the necessity of rapt attention to the present moment in the creation of one of these paintings.
b.
There is a philosophical link in the importance of the present moment in Zen, and how the artist lays down the brush.
c.
There is a philosophical link in the importance of the present moment in Zen, and how the artist represents the idea he or she portrays.

Answer 1

b.

Zen emphasizes the immediacy of the present moment, and in Japanese calligraphy and ink painting that is literally recorded in the way the artist lays down the brush — a single, decisive, uncorrected stroke that reveals the artist’s state of mind and must be made with full, rapt attention.