Rongbaozhai Painting Spectrum (167) -- Freehand Landscape: Freehand Landscape

Author: Tong Zhongdiao
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: For artistic creation, brushwork has no set formulas. Ultimately, it belongs to the individual rather than being a concept applicable to everyone. There are Tang brushwork, Song and Yuan brushwork; there are Fan Kuan, Dong Yuan, the Mi brothers, Li Tang's brushwork; there are Huang Gongwang, Ni Yunlin's brushwork; there are Dong Qichang, Shi Tao, Wang Yuanqi's brushwork; there are Huang Binhong, Li Keran's brushwork. What kind of brushwork reveals what kind of imagery, what kind of brushwork carries what kind of meaning, and expresses what kind of atmosphere. The brush and the realm are actually one and the same. The so-called "[The words and the object merge as one, indistinguishable. The words are the object, the expression is the essence. To seek the object without words, the object becomes no longer the true object]."