Nihon New York - Episode 02 - Zen in America: Painting with NYC's Max Gimblett

[@MrChristopherxx]

I love the calligraphy in japanese zen, so cool! For practice though Gyobutsuji Zen Monastery. That place is amazing.

[@bluemoonwei]

love it!

[@sajrocks]

At 0:56 I nearly jumped out of my chair. AWESOME!

[@spookybuk]

"It's always been my ambition..." first words.

[@SaerdnaOoOoo]

Such creativity. Fniss.

[@mje1625]

Anyone know what kind of paper he's using?

[@nazarenon6943]

I have the same question. Did u know the answer?

[@mentalmetal1]

an artist in his own mind. i think the japanese would shake their heads laughing at this guy.

[@Ikaros23]

It`s not about thinking or trying to recreate the real world. It`s " inspired" by Japanese Zen. If you listened to him he knows what he is talking about. the word " Wabi-Sabi" is about exactly what he is doing. He paints like a child with " No mind". Look again and you can see that the " weakest" work he did in the video was the one where he painted the shape of a square. This was because he lost his focus on making the art asymetrical and natural. To make art that is not in a patern or in shapes, and to make it " estetic" is not as easy as it seems. In Japanese art also in Bonsai, poetry. It`s about trying to replicate nature, and the process of " transience" of life on a emotional level. If you look at the French garden of Versailles you see that the point is to control nature. Make geometrical shapes. And to create artificial perfectionism. In Japanese art of Bonsai and the Zen garden, the point is to replicate nature in the shapes that shows the brute force of nature ( Wind, decay, death). The reason for this is from japanese Zen Buddhism. And in the estetic form of " Wabi- Sabi". So the point in the Japanese garden or in poetry ( Heiku), is to show nature and the seasons " as it is". The more asymetric and " broken", rustic " weathered". The better. Art is not just about making a recreation of reality. It`s about expression. So he is a artist. His style is just to expressionistic and minimalistic to your taste

[@Crisferusa]

@mentalmetal1 Clueless

[@TUNERJDM]

ROTFLMAO!!!!! OLD MAN IS SO RANDOM, I BURSTED OUT LAUGHING

[@TJALEK2]

Right. . .

[@yowalker5956]

why is he screaming?

[@ameliageika2496]

If I'm not mistaken, he's shouting a, "Katz!" which is a sound in Zen practice that a student or teacher might make when trying to verbalize emptiness, or anything else, really. One might hear it as an answer to the question, "What is Buddha?"