The Artistic Characteristics Of Ink Painting

Ink and wash painting is a painting art form with strong Han Chinese characteristics, which uses painting tools and materials with their own ethnic characteristics (brush, rice paper, and ink) to express paintings with imagery and artistic conception. Its characteristics mainly have two aspects. Firstly, from the perspective of tool materials, ink painting has an artistic effect that blends water and milk, and is full of vitality. Specifically, the attribute characteristics of water, ink, and rice paper are well reflected, such as the blending of ink and water, resulting in a hierarchy of dry and wet intensities; Furthermore, the fusion of ink and rice paper creates a special effect of moisture permeability. The second is the expressive characteristics of ink and wash painting. Due to the integration and infiltration of ink and rice paper, it is good at expressing the characteristics of objects that resemble but not resemble, that is, imagery. This imagery effect can generate rich imagination, in line with the aesthetic ideal of "Chinese painting emphasizes artistic conception".