Ink.7

Author: Research Center for Chinese Ink Wash Art
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: One of the outstanding characteristics of traditional ink wash art is its "elite" sentiment in creative aesthetics. As a cultural historical phenomenon, "the origin of calligraphy and painting" reveals that Chinese painting, from its early stages of development, was closely associated with the social elite class, who possessed a certain level of cultural literacy (ability to write) and relatively rich emotional lives. In other words, if Greek art was created by a group of harmonious individuals in body and mind, yearning for the ideal sacred beauty, then Chinese ink wash art has always been linked to the artistic emotional lives of those high-ranking individuals who were the first to master the ability to write characters. Ink wash sketches can easily become entangled in pure techniques, with the ancient masters' brushwork and ink patterns always lingering in the mind. Especially after a period of copying, it tends to become a heavy burden, requiring a process of digestion. Copying serves two purposes: one is to understand the ancient masters' perception of nature through copying; the other is to grasp the idea that the ancient masters fully expressed through this brushwork technique. More precisely, the techniques of the ancient masters were designed specifically for the subjects they intended to depict.