Knowra Chinese ink painting Chinese ink painting Chinese ink painting is a tradition of painting with ink on paper or silk, developed in China and influential across East Asia. It uses brushwork, line, and tonal variation to evoke subjects with economy.
Chinese brush : A brush made with animal hair and a handle, used for writing and painting in East Asia. Its flexible tip creates the varied strokes central to ink painting.
Ink wash technique : A painting technique that varies ink dilution and brush application to produce tonal washes. Changes in water and ink create gradients, texture, and atmospheric distance.
Chinese painting : The visual art tradition of painting in China, encompassing diverse media, genres, and historical periods. Chinese ink painting belongs to this broader and longer artistic tradition.
Wang Wei : An eighth-century poet, musician, and painter associated with early ink landscape painting. Later tradition remembered him as a model for combining poetry and painting.
Chinese landscape painting : A Chinese painting genre depicting mountains, water, and inhabited or cultivated terrain. Landscape became one of the tradition’s richest settings for ink and brush expression.
Chinese ink : Ink traditionally made from soot and animal glue, often formed into a solid stick and ground with water. Grinding and diluting ink provides the medium’s range of tones.
Drybrush : A brush technique using relatively little liquid to leave broken, textured marks. Dry strokes can suggest rough surfaces and weathered forms.
Six principles of Chinese painting : Six criteria for painting articulated by the sixth-century critic Xie He. The principles established an influential vocabulary for evaluating painting and brushwork.
Fan Kuan : A Northern Song landscape painter known for monumental mountain compositions. His landscape style shows how ink can render imposing scale and dense terrain.
Bird-and-flower painting : An East Asian painting genre depicting birds, flowers, plants, and insects. The genre shows how ink painting handles small, vividly observed natural subjects.
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