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The aesthetic conceptions of the Far East have been deeply influenced by a special philosophy of nature. The Chinese consider the relation of the two principles, male and female, the yang and the yin, as the source of the universe. Detached from the primordial unity, they give birth to the forms of this world by ever varying degrees of combination.

The T'ang dynasty was the really vital period of Chinese Buddhism. Among the painters who gave it its highest expression Wu Tao-tzŭ holds first place. His memory dwells in history as that of one of the greatest masters in China and legend has still further enhanced the might of his genius.

The Chinese divide the subjects of painting into four principal classes, as follows: Landscape. Man and Objects. Flowers and Birds. Plants and Insects.

It has often been said that in Chinese painting, as in Japanese painting, perspective is ignored. Nothing is further from the truth. This error arises from the fact that we have confused one system of perspective with perspective as a whole. There are as many systems of perspective as there are conventional laws for the representation of space.

Where our painters have chosen wood or canvas as a ground, the Chinese have employed silk or paper. While our art recognizes that drawing itself, quite apart from painting, is a sufficient objective, drawing and painting have always been closely intermingled in the Far East.

With this image, I started the creation process using the 3D fractal generator XenoDream. With that and other tools I created this image using a variety of filtering, layering, and color enhancement effects, all in Photoshop. The end result was this work of postmodern contemporary fractal abstract art, which immediately rather reminded me of the face of a Chinese Foo Dog. When trying to figure out what I should give it as a name, I took that into account, and called it "Jubilant Face of Foo". Jubilant Face of Foo is now presented here at Bubblews, complete with the digitally embossed Bill M. Tracer Studio logo signature seal, small as not to distract from the design, while decidedly present, showing authenticity.