Art format with ancient origin painting and drawing style has potential to modernization too, any one listening?
This style of painting comes from East Asia
(it originated in China) and uses only different concentrations of black ink
(produced by grinding a black ink stick in water) to create drawings, making
judicious use of powerful line strokes and plenty of open space. Simplicity is
at the heart of Sumi-E paintings.
Sumi-E, like many other Eastern art styles,
has as its ultimate goal the desire to capture the essence of the subject. The artist
must observe the subject and have a deep understanding of its nature and
nuances. In painting a tiger, it is not as important to preserve how he looks
as it is to show its majesty and power.
Sumi-E masters use the minimum number of
strokes required to convey to their audience the most prominent characteristics
of their subject. Excessive details are avoided.
The tools used for Sumi-E are the same as
those used for Eastern calligraphy – an ink stone, an ink stick, a brush and of
course, the medium, paper. An ink stone has a slight hollow in it, which is
used to grind the ink stick and to hold the resulting ink. An ink stick is pine
soot bound together in the form of a stick with the help of resin.
Brushes used in Sumi-E are versatile in
nature, as a single brush is used to create strokes of a variety of thickness.
The paper is to be absorbent only to a certain degree – rice paper is the type
of paer used most frequently for such paintings.
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