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| Journey -- Yafei Li, ca. 2018 |
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| Journey -- Yafei Li, ca. 2018 |
Starting from last week, I have made a few shifts on my paintings -- from a fixed frame to free edges, from light color wash to monochrome ink. James Cahill talked about such a similar shift on ancient Chinese landscape paintings in early Sung dynasty,
"The quest of the Five Dynasties and early Sung landscapists was for pictorial unification. The subordination or elimination of color was a move toward that end, since the tapestry-like variegation of early landscape had tended to fragment the composition. A new emphasis on brushwork gave surface consistency to the painting. Most important of all, methods were developed to create a spatial continuum within the picture: the use of concealing mists, the convincing depiction of recessions into depth, the drawing of distant objects in thinner tones of ink to suggest a hazy atmosphere. A landscape was no longer an assemblage of individual images, but set forth a coherent vision."
Monochrome ink, elimination of color -- this reminds me the painting Cy Twombly did on a blackboard. White represents totally opaque, black is absolutely translucent, while grey can be hazy.
After the painting for this week, I found three testing papers on my table. I cut them from the same paper as those paintings. I used them to test the color and the humidity of the brush. The left one is from last semester, the middle one from last week, and the right one from this week. Put them side by side -- such a hazy memory -- JOURNEY as well.
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| Journey -- Testing Papers, Yafei Li, ca. 2018 |
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