Ink Rhyme with Fragrance

       Black is a color without light, while with a strong feeling. It gives people heavy and deep visual experiences. Because of its great ability of integration and absorption, it also shows rich connotations, hierarchy and diversity. In Chinese painting, "ink is divided into five colors". It seems that there is only one black color, while in fact the depth and shade contain various levels and details. It embodies the painter's rich and delicate emotions. Black has the meaning of infinite far-reaching broadness. It has infinite possibility and uncertainty, full of mystery as well as endless charm.

      Henri Matisse, a Fauvist painter, once said that "black can be compared with a solo bass." "When I don't know what color to use, I choose black. It is a force that I use to simplify the structure." Black plays a unique role in the structure and color of works. It has a powerful charm that attracts painters of all ages. It is favored with its rich expressive force and distinctive artistic effect. It has accumulated its special visual and cultural meaning in the long history and formed its own particular color charm.

      All things are flashy. I find out more and more that black can convey the inner essence of things. I keep trying to express my subtle feelings of life as well as interpret my inner world and expect to discover new possibilities. In this series, black is used not only to shape the light and color, but also to express the temperament and interest as well as render artistic conception, in order to create a profound aesthetic atmosphere and fully present the charm of the lotus. It not only respects the nature in expression, but also is superior to the natural fact in thought, which makes it have realistic appreciation at the same time, and reflects the ideological and artistic connotation of the work.

      Black and white is the main theme of the concept of form and color in Chinese painting. Since ancient times, it has been adhering to the concept of color with ink as the main and color as the auxiliary. "Painting Training" said, "As long as ink rhyme is sufficient, color can either be applied or not." The characteristic of water in watercolor painting and the sense of strength from the brush have some similarities with Chinese painting. Therefore, I try to create "ink rhyme" in watercolor painting and skillfully integrate the brush of Chinese ink painting into the creation of watercolor painting, so as to integrate the histories of Chinese and Western painting aesthetic. I attempt to endow watercolor painting with more distinct Chinese personality and poetic temperament, control shape with meaning, as well as pursue the beauty of concept and image. In this series, unrestrained lines and vigorous ink are adopted to show the free stretching leaves in the pool. With the help of the "ink rhyme" produced by the change of water content, it displays the lotus leaves' internal vigorous and upward momentum. I try to show a firm, mysterious and profound emotion in the picture, hoping to give people a deep feeling.