A Eulogy to Peace (2) Painting

Drawing, the parent of our three arts, Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting, draws out from many single things is like a form or idea of all the objects in nature. As the rival quality of color, too potent and unstable, unless held in check by the line modeling of form, then it is cognizant in the finished work of art that the proportion of the whole to the parts and of the parts to each other and to the whole that reveal the efforts of artist’s intellects to master the miscellaneous images with an appropriate general judgement. Thus is much more important in Chinese Painting which mainly uses lines to construct forms. Traditional Chinese painting involves essentially the same techniques as Chinese calligraphy and is done with a brush dipped in black or colored ink; oils are not used. The most common instruments for drawing in western arts are pen, charcoal or stylus. The pen-and-ink lines are often then enhanced by wash applied with the brush. However in Chinese painting the way of using brush is different. We use the brush to depict form and also to construct the variations of colors and the intensities of ink. Calling Bone method, the drawing of line is being dealt with a keen sense of strictness which refers to the close link between handwriting and the kinesthetic energies of the human body. Therefore the object-line means much more than the structure contours; which is registered as traces on paper. In my second work of my series of “A Eulogy to Peace”, I relied on line--the indelible mark of inked or colored brush to draw the lotus and their leaves in the foreground to denote specific meanings: the manifestation of the energy of human body and the vitality of nature itself. During the creating process, I proceed in accordance with the manifestation of my digestion and respiration of energy. As for the leaves which are with much strength and rich in sinew is of sage like quality, while the linear description of flower is delicate and exquisite but this does not imply the energy is weak. The lines of the petals were to reveal the elegance of such unique flower, that the amount of pressure exerted on the surface has to be controlled. And I also want to express the glittering and translucent quality of the flower, so the lines have to be semitransparent. The various elements in this picture is conform to proportion and follow the flow of nature’s rhythms, that the flying dove appears leisure and carefree.

Painting:Ink on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:14 W x 18 H x 0.1 D in

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