An Explorative Analysis Of Piled-ink Skill

As a skill and specific term of art creation, piled-ink has a great significance on the formation and development of Chinese water-ink paining, especially in landscape painting.The origin to the making and appliance of ink can be traced back to Han dynasty in our country, when pine-soot ink was extensively used for sketching of decorate paintings. Blackness of ink was very popular in Qin dynasty. During the periods from Wu Dai and Songs, landscape paintings developed rapidly for the description with ink. Especially artists in the south preferred the use of piled-ink skill. Dong Yuan, for the accordance of wrinkling of landscape, the moistness of plantation, and lightness of lake and mountain, employed the advantage of piled-ink consciously with the combination of mass and dot scratching. The father and son, Mi Fu and Mi Youren, as the successor of Dong Yuan and Ju Ran in style, are another two giants in this field, giving great impetus for the development of piled-ink skill. The conscious use of piled-ink offered extensive space for the combined use of ink and color and made the painting style in that period so diverse.Yuan dynasty was a prosperous period for intellectual painting with the stress on landscape painting via calligraphy technique, the saddle faint, and the ink thick. These intellectual painters hold that painting is more about the trace and image sketching than the mere description of the object.The theory of combination of south and north advocated by Dong Qichang set the predominance of intellectual painting in the history of Chinese painting, which makes the appliance of piled-ink quite rational. Gong Xian, one that should be specially focused on for the success of piled-ink, promotes that skill perfect for the blend of decadence and the new techniques. In modern landscape painters, Huang Binhong and Li Keruan have made bold innovation to the traditional piled-ink skill. They both put emphasis on the comprehensive use of piled-ink and other techniques, the objects so explicitly stratified with a sense of sculpture, a total new style without parallel in history.The innovation and development is so dependent on the use of techniques of drawing that the piled-ink skill is concerning both the techniques of ink and drawing, even the latter with more proportionate. In fact, a successful Chinese painting works relies on more techniques and forms in creation. Specifically to piled-ink skill, dots are piled into lines, and lines into square, more drawing techniques involved with one standing out for the uniqueness and diversity of art creation.The comprehensive use of ink makes the style of painting of Huang Binhong and Li Keruan unique, with piled-ink skill as the connection and predominance. Compared to traditional water-ink painting, the techniques are more diverse and open in more Chinese paintings. Whatever can fully satisfy the theme and express the artists'idea is available.All in all, the variation and configuration of piled-ink skill make it predominant to other skills. Especially the blend of piled-ink and piled-color, initiated by Professor Zhong Ruqian, has a good combination of modern constructionist, behaviorism and abstractionism, with prosperous future.With the development of modern society, people's cognition also promotes, which urges us to pursuit, perfect and develop some new techniques for adaptation. The skill of piled-ink on certain degree does not only adhere to the tradition, but also it is open and compatible with prosperous vitality for the interpretation of the new artistic works. Meanwhile, the skill of piled-ink is predominant and irreplaceable. In the past years, the author has devoted himself to the explorative study of the technique of piled-ink and tried to pursuit some breakthrough in practice. In addition, the author intends to make some dialectical analyses of piled-ink skill with the theory of trace and image and summarized seven experiences in his artistic creation as an attachment in hope of getting some valuable suggestions from experts in this field.