From the prosperous Tang Dynasty to the late Tang Dynasty, painters were not satisfied with the existing landscape painting language, and tried to open up a new artistic language-ink painting. Wu Daozi, an outstanding master of art, used pen and ink to write sparse landscapes. The poet Wang Wei used "ink painting" to show the landscape of Wangchuan with "poetry in painting", and the broken ink landscape began to appear.
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Subsequently, Bi Hong, Zhang Yun, Zheng Qian, Wang Mo and other splash-ink landscape painters appeared, which gradually formed the artistic language of ink landscape and established the trend of paying attention to developing individuality. None of these masters' excellent ink paintings survive in the world. Today, we can see the ink painting style of folk artists in the murals of the Tang Dynasty, which shows that this has formed a certain fashion in the Tang Dynasty.
Ink landscape is a kind of pure ink and colorless landscape painting style. According to legend, it began in Tang Dynasty, became in Song Dynasty, flourished in Yuan Dynasty and developed in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Painting pays attention to meaning and vividness, forming a set of expression techniques with ink and wash as the main body. His brushwork is mainly hook, brush and dot, which is superior to the performance of structure and texture; Its inking method is based on the shade and drying of ink.
Mainly splash ink and dry ink, it has the effect of "water faints the ink chapter" and "giving color at the same time", which is better than volume and charm. Theoretically, it is emphasized that there is pen and ink, and the combination of pen and ink can achieve the wonderful state of change.
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