Oil Painting -> Brush
Painting
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Brush Painting
The art of brush
painting using brush and ink is of Chinese origin,
but has developed extensively throughout the region. This
article outlines the basic foundation, history, and techniques
of this art, and then directs the reader to national schools:
Chinese brush painting, Korean brush painting, Vietnamese
brush painting, Japanese brush painting, and the like.
Japanese Brush painting
Japanese brush painting is a relatively recent
development and emerged out of the Buddhist schools of calligraphy
(Shodo).
The ancient art of Japanese
brush painting, or sumi-e, is strikingly beautiful,
simple and pure, yet strong and resonant. Closely related
to Zen philosophy, the art of sumi-e is executed with black
ink on white rice paper using bamboo brushes. Subjects in
Japanese brush painting include landscapes,
flowers, or animals, anything that suggests a closeness to
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Recent Innovations
Historically brush painting has
been done on hand-made paper of natural materials, with black ink,
and bamboo brushes with natural bristles. Artists globally have
introduced new techniques, new materials, new means of holding ink
and using ink, and as well the addition of colours. This has challenged
the historic notion of the great brush artists that viewers can
"see colour" in black inks, and have no need to be given
colours forcibly by coloured inks as the gradations of ink itself
make colour possible in the mind. The use of the entire spectrum
of Sandoz dyes, has given a huge range of new colours and these
have been integrated quickly: the primary colours first, and then
newer colours as well - particularly in flower painting,
and in over-seas brush artists and Europeans who are less restricted
by traditional
brush painting codes
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