Ting etc.
C. Russell
i took a class on china/india my first semester of college and i happened to
of kept my copies of D.C. Lau's translations of Mencius and Tao Te Ching.
I'm currently an art student, but one of my main areas of interest are
classic symbolism, images and how they are loaded with meaning. simply,
the more i hear about china the more fascinated i am. the more i learn, the
more i want.
so, i'll keep this list and start reading on it.
thank you very much.
C. A. R.
C. Russell
> I studied Chinese painting under the artist Da Wu Tang. He is a great
> Chinese artist who would grind his ink like a blackbelt martial artist
> and would look at what I was doing and say things like: "Ahh, you
> paint hairy dragon...." It was a joy watching him paint a shoot
> pushing its leaves out of the earth and say: "It is spring!"
>
it surprising (or maybe not) that as i was thinking about all of this that i
wondered if i could find someone who could teach Chinese painting
techniques.
C. Russell
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"Joel Biroco" <bir...@nospamhotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Chinese painting techniques are usually taught through learning
> Chinese calligraphy. In a Japanese Zen monastery you might practice
> painting a single brush stroke for 10 years before graduating onto
> "enso", the circle. All great Chinese painting is founded on skill in
> calligraphy. Now and again a great Chinese artist pops up teaching a
> course at a college, but it's only after you've studied with them for
> a while that you realise that such a person really is a *great*
> artist. But don't bother learning Chinese calligraphy from a
> westerner, no matter how good they may be. I don't paint "Chinese"
> paintings, but what I do paint is very much influenced by a feeling
> for spontaneity I learnt from Da Wu Tang. That said, Da Wu Tang isn't
> a "bamboo and landscape" painter either, his work is quite abstract.
> He had one that was a single red brush stroke that I regret I never
> bought from him, it was astonishingly powerful. Some of the Hong Kong
> painters are also doing some great semi-abstract work.
>
I was looking around on the net and noticed such work. and caligraphy is
one of my obsessions. i've been stylizing my writing now for about 4 years
or so. i also heard about that Zen practice of doing 1 stroke for years.
One of the great things is that my best work are drawings i do that take
aproximately 5 mins. and are extremely expressive and "fresh". that's why
these paintings interests me so. my natural inclinations are for simple,
high contrast line drawings that are fairly accurate.
*shrug*
some day i'll be driven enough to find someone to learn these things from.
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