Huang Binhong's five strokes and seven inks - stone color plus points, color and ink reflect each other.
Huang Binhong's landscape paintings are known for their dripping brushwork and heavy ink color. In this issue, let's take a look at one of his landscape paintings. Huang Binhong's paintings have different exploratory purposes, so the focus of brush and ink expression is also different.
In this painting, Huang Binhong uses a unique stone color dotting method to dye the moss marks on the stone vividly. These little moss marks are reflected in the ink, like the vitality on the stone. At the same time, the ink colors reflect each other, making the whole painting full of layers and three-dimensionality.
The works are layered on top of each other, the short-sighted ink is thick but not greasy, and the gods of the mountains and rivers are taken from a distance like a god in the black and dense. His five brushstrokes and seven inks are smeared and embellished on the stones, revealing the charm of mountains, rivers, forests and springs. The finishing touch of the stone in the landscape painting, in the staggered ink color, makes the texture on the stone color and the landscape natural, contrasting with each other.
In the way of dotting, he is ingenious, skillfully using ink colors and embellishments to bring the stones in his landscape paintings to life. The stone seems to have life, snuggling leisurely in the mountains, revealing the poetry and power of life.
In this landscape painting, we can see that Huang Binhong uses one color and multiple methods, showing the rich changes and natural charm of stone colors in contrast. He uses light ink to set off the basic outline of the mountain stone, and then uses thick ink and fine brushes to embellish the details of the pattern of the mountain stone, so that the light and thick interlaced, virtual and real combination of brush and ink effect, so that the whole painting is full of dynamic and three-dimensional sense.
When Huang Binhong deals with stone color, he not only pays attention to the layering effect of color, but also pays more attention to the mutual contrast between color and ink. On the picture, light ink and thick ink, dry ink and wet ink, solid ink and virtual ink blend and penetrate each other, forming a colorful and profound artistic conception.
Through the delicate depiction of stone color, the work captures the ever-changing nature to the end of the brush, and in the contrast of color and ink, we seem to feel the flow of charm between mountains and rivers, and feel his inner awe and love for nature.
*Contributed by Rainbow Art Space.
Wen Hongyi.