Ink painting
The ink painting (including ink painting) is a painting or drawing technique , wherein the colored or black ink with a brush on paper or silk is applied. There is a high culture of ink painting, especially in China and Japan .
Ink is available in different colors, but color is usually not used and only black ink made of spruce soot and deer horn curd (as glue) with other small additives such as musk and camphor is used. This form of black and white brush drawing developed in China in the 6th century from calligraphy . This is why a round, Chinese calligraphy brush is also used when painting.
Variations in ink painting
When painting with Indian ink, the different qualities of the ink stones, rubbing stones, glue, additives, the brush and the base play an important role. This results in countless variants of ink painting. Traditionally, a round Chinese calligraphy brush is used. In Western art, on the other hand, quill pens, calligraphy pens and toothpicks are also used. There is Indian ink that becomes insoluble in water after drying, and ink that remains water-soluble.
Compare with other types of painting
In contrast to calligraphy , ink painting is not primarily about the creation of characters , but about the atmospheric and reduced representation of nature and landscape motifs . In contrast to watercolor painting , in ink painting the drawing material soaks up the paint. The combination of Indian ink with white drawing material creates its own form of illustration with just a few brushstrokes.
Japan is the ink painting sumi-e and is closely related to Zen - Buddhism connected.
Cult objects: ink stones and ink boxes
Ink stones or ink stones are cult objects in East Asia and were traditionally made from jade, quartz, iron or copper. Ink stones offered today are mostly made of slate, ceramic or natural stone. Ink stones sometimes have decorative relief forms and their hollow is often richly decorated with carvings.
The z. Sometimes lavishly decorated lacquer boxes for storing ink utensils are and were viewed as status symbols.
See also
literature
- Emi Akamatsu: Japanese flower painting. A painting course in examples . Knaur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-426-64191-7 .
- Anke-Usche Clausen, Martin Riedel: Creative design with colors. Methodical structure and the associated material science. Suggestions for educators, parents, interested parties and seekers who want to do painting . 5th edition. Mellinger Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-88069-024-3 ( Methodical Workbook 4).
- Naomi Okamoto: Japanese Ink Painting. The Art of Sumí-e . Cassell, New York NY et al. 1996, ISBN 0-8069-0833-5 .
- Heike Sackmann: Japanese ink painting . English publisher, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-8241-1273-6 ( The art guide ).
- Katharina Shepherd: Zen in the Art of Ink Painting . Theseus Verlag 2005, ISBN 978-3896202680
- Katharina Shepherd: Handbook of Far Eastern Ink Painting . Kamphausen 2013, ISBN 978-3899013429