leatherback wrote:

Ivan Mann wrote: Bonsai is art.

I would not per se make this the most important. Rather, bonsai is horticulture.

Exactly. Else we would have famous artists, prestigious exhibitions , hiigh prices for quality work, important pieces that are national treasures and cheap reproductions.

Oh wait...

Clicio wrote: No wiring.
At all.

No bonsai.
At all.

Is this the USP campus?

Auk wrote:

leatherback wrote:

Ivan Mann wrote: Bonsai is art.

I would not per se make this the most important. Rather, bonsai is horticulture.

Exactly. Else we would have famous artists, prestigious exhibitions , hiigh prices for quality work, important pieces that are national treasures and cheap reproductions.

Oh wait...

Auk wrote:

fikus wrote:

Create a mini plant, which exactly repeats the look of a large tree

And no... that too I do not really agree with. You cannot replicate a real tree in miniature. It is an impression of a real tree - not just any tree, but an old, mature tree, that shows it has struggled against the elements and survived.

how about using the phrasing: to create the feeling of a large, aged tree in minature? with the emphasis on the word feeling.

I think bonsai in a unique way expresses parts of life in art, that other artforms cannot. Obviously it is not only art, and not only horticulture, but because a tree is always changing, and growing, etc, it can express the ever changing nature of life that a painting cannot.

leatherback wrote:

Clicio wrote: No wiring.
At all.

No bonsai.
At all.

Of course not, only the things nature does and we try to reproduce in bonsai!

leatherback wrote: Is this the USP campus?

Nope, it's in my street, down in the direction of the old downtown center.