Common use of Sketches Clause in Contracts

Sketches. Sketches are drawings of fragmentary sections of a composition and are used as studies for transferring an image of a model to a painting. The traditional Chinese term for such sketches is fenben ㉝ᴀ, and the cache of scriptures and paintings retrieved from Mogao Cave 17 at 1900 include many examples, if not all, of this type of drawing. Except from a few designs for mandalas and banners, all drawings related to the Dunhuang wall paintings are sketches of fragmentary aspects, some of them also found in the wall paintings. ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ has made an elaborate study of the extant sixty-five scrolls with these drawings, but since my classification, methodology, and aims are different from hers, the results presented here should be seen as a contribution to the research on Chinese drawings and their relationship to wall painting.44 An analysis of the Dunhuang sketches reveals that sketches transmitted three types of compositional elements: details, single figures, and groups of figures. Dunhuang sketch P. 43 For examples of the Dunhuang cartoons in the British Museum collection, see ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, The Art of Central Asia: The ▇▇▇▇▇ Collection in the British Museum. Vol. 2. Tokyo: Kodansha International and the Trustees of the British Museum, 1983, pls. 78-80. For the identification of fenben as a “pounce” (i.e. cartoon), ▇▇▇▇ & Shih, Early Chinese Texts. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985, p. 256, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, The ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Practice: How Painters Lived and Worked in Traditional China. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994, p. 91, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, Performing the Visua, pp. 102-108, and ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ≭℺⬄ and ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ṕ㋙, “Dunhuang qianfo bian huagao cikong yanjiu: jiantan Dunhuang qianfo hua ji ti zhizu jifa yanbian ᬺ✠गԯ֓ ⬿〓ࠎᄨⷨお˖ݐ䂛ᬺ✠गԯ⬿ঞ݊㻑԰ᡔ⊩ⓨ䅞.” Dunhuang xue jikan ᬺ✠ᅌ䔃ߞ 2 (2005), pp. 57-71. 44 ▇▇▇▇▇▇, Performing the Visual.

Sketches. Sketches are drawings of fragmentary sections of a composition and are used as studies for transferring an image of a model to a painting. The traditional Chinese term for such sketches is fenben ㉝ᴀ, and the cache of scriptures and paintings retrieved from Mogao Cave 17 at 1900 include many examples, if not all, of this type of drawing. Except from a few designs for mandalas and banners, all drawings related to the Dunhuang wall paintings are sketches of fragmentary aspects, some of them also found in the wall paintings. ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ has made an elaborate study of the extant sixty-five scrolls with these drawings, but since my classification, methodology, and aims are different from hers, the results presented here should be seen as a contribution to the research on Chinese drawings and their relationship to wall painting.44 An analysis of the Dunhuang sketches reveals that sketches transmitted three types of compositional elements: details, single figures, and groups of figures. Dunhuang sketch P. 43 For examples of the Dunhuang cartoons in the British Museum collection, see ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, The Art of Central Asia: The ▇▇▇▇▇ Collection in the British Museum. Vol. 2. Tokyo: Kodansha International and the Trustees of the British Museum, 1983, pls. 78-80. For the identification of fenben as a “pounce” (i.e. cartoon), ▇▇▇▇ & Shih, Early Chinese Texts. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985, p. 256, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, The ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Practice: How Painters Lived and Worked in Traditional China. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994, p. 91, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, Performing the Visua, pp. 102-108, and ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ≭℺⬄ and ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ṕ㋙, “Dunhuang qianfo bian huagao cikong yanjiu: jiantan Dunhuang ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ qianfo hua ji ti zhizu jifa yanbian ᬺ✠गԯ֓ ⬿〓ࠎᄨⷨお˖ݐ䂛ᬺ✠गԯ⬿ঞ݊㻑԰ᡔ⊩ⓨ䅞.” Dunhuang xue jikan ᬺ✠ᅌ䔃ߞ 2 (2005), pp. 57-71. 44 ▇▇▇▇▇▇, Performing the Visual.