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When traditional landscapes do not match your environment

I have been practicing Chinese landscape painting for three years but I live in the city and have never seen mountains like the ones in the paintings and I feel like I am painting lies

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The disconnection between artistic subject matter and lived experience raises questions about authenticity versus universal artistic language.

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