"Multiple Brushstrokes" (cūn fǎ) are essential in Xieyi landscape painting, offering a variety of textured strokes that create a sense of depth, form, and visual complexity, requiring skill and strategic layering to depict mountains, rocks, and trees, adding dynamism and guiding the viewer’s eye through the composition.
This article emphasizes the importance of “line quality” in Running Script, detailing how subtle variations in stroke weight, texture, ink, and flow combine to express intention, emotion, and a calligrapher's mastery.
This article emphasizes the importance of rhythm in Running Script, exploring how stroke weight, connections, and negative space contribute to the overall flow and expressiveness of the artwork.
This article explores the technical aspects of Running Script, focusing on brushstrokes, pressure variations, angles, the connecting stroke, and the importance of negative space in creating a balanced composition.
This article introduces the fluidity and dynamic nature of Running Script, highlighting its balance between formal and free styles, its historical significance, and its continued relevance in the art of calligraphy.
This article examines the strokes of Tang Kaishu, highlighting the calligraphers’ precision, their mastery of pressure and transitions, and how they balanced control and expressiveness to create strokes of both beauty and accuracy.
Explores the key characteristics of Cursive Script (Cao Shu), including its abstracted forms, interconnected strokes, use of qi, and the balance between freedom and control.
This article delves into the various brushstrokes and techniques used in Xieyi painting, emphasizing the importance of mastering spontaneity and ink control to convey the spirit of the subject.