Category: Cultural Activities

This episode continues exploring the principles of art through Huang Binhong’s paintings. As mentioned last time, his brushwork techniques exemplify traditional Chinese ethnic painting characteristics. Western painting uses watercolors rather than ink. Just manipulating tones through light and dark wetness can create many layered color effects. Chinese brushes also come in various categories. These tools…

Huang Binhong’s works embrace his personal principles and views. As it is often said, the most important thing for a successful artist is his teacher – Huang Binhong indeed had a distinguished student of ink painting, Li Keran, which proved the saying of eminent teachers producing outstanding students. As for those who are self-taught, they…

From the perspective of Chinese painting, Huang Binhong’s works can be seen to resonate with Western Impressionist paintings. However, modern painters such as Wu Guanzhong have been quite critical of Huang Binhong’s paintings, commenting that his works are all repetitive and devoid of meaning. Wu Guanzhong values composition and modern expression, believing that brushwork and…