For a while, this frame http://ykk.misago.org/Volume8/26-27 (the upper one) had me worried. I knew I had seen it before.
And suddenly I remembered where. It resembled a painting by Ma Yuan (active 1190-1225), precisely this one...
http://www.seattlecentral.edu/faculty/cmalody/T3ma/chinalandscape/12thc/walkingonpathinspring,mayuan,12th.jpg
The similarities goes beyond the composition. In Ma Yuan painting, the main character is a philosopher, a taoist I think, who watches the world... like Ashinano's Alpha...
Quite an artist, this Ashinano...
- DavidF
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Does the Taoist philosopher get dizzy and fall over in the next panel?
- Loran Gayton
Thursday, October 27, 2005
My first impulse is to find a YKK match for the Mona Lisa...
- Kerry Lourash
Thursday, October 27, 2005
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