(Xia Gui- https://www.comuseum.com/product/xia-gui-remote-view-of-streams-and-hills/ )
For this weeks blog task we were tasked with looking at a piece of work from the China Online museum website. I really enjoyed looking through all these pieces of artwork on there as I have a personal interest in east Asian artwork and have previously enjoyed doing some of my own inspired by these methods in the past. I have done some fine liner ink drawings which are very similar to this particular piece above. This piece is by Xia Gui and is called 'Remote view of streams and hills' I chose to look at this particular piece because I really love the way the artist has used negative space in this piece to show an atmosphere of seclusion and peace. It is clear from this that the setting is quiet and sombre with the negative space taking up most of the top portion of the images we can see that the trees hang either side of the main focal point which looks like a little bridge in the centre.
Some of the ink techniques which have been sued in this piece include the 'axe stroke' method which is said to resemble that of chopped wood. Furthermore the artist has used a mixture of dry brush strokes and washes to create the lines and tones within this piece with darker dry brush strokes for trees that are close to the front and more diluted blended out ink for the leaves behind. As you can see the cliff edge in the background of the image if a lot lighter with less strong details compared to the heavily outlined shapes of the rocks at the front, this has created a sense of depth to the piece. You can really get a feel for the atmosphere of the piece even though there is not much detail in the background, the very light wash at the top of the page looks like it could be land on the other side of a very large lake.
Overall I really love how the artist has been able to create a clear atmosphere by just using negative space and a use of dynamic line and tonal values with the ink strokes and washes.
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