Chinese ink

Example Sentences

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Iri was trained in traditional Chinese ink and wash painting.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2020

Like the work of a traditional Chinese ink painter, her words sketch around spots of blankness, leaving suggestive lacunae.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 30, 2019

The setting at the Aug. 19 meeting was calm: A room with plush cream carpets, Chinese ink brush landscape paintings and a vase of purple orchids.

From Reuters • Sep. 11, 2014

Some look like giant Rorschach blots, others like oversize Chinese ink brush swaths.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2012

Properly speaking, he does not employ the line at all but works by masses, by broad, heavily inked touches, without pausing to emphasize the deep warm blacks provided by Chinese ink.

From Chinese Painters A Critical Study by Seaver, Frances