shai　写意

KEY WORD :　 art history / paintings

A representation or drawing created from the imagination or from the feeling or spirit of the object rather than from its real appearance. The opposite of *keiji 形似. This term was used by Literati artists in China and Japan to describe their paintings, which they said sprang from an inner rather than external reality.

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