For example, Zheng Chongbin’s large ink painting “New Six Canons (Xin Liufa)” (2012) references a fifth-century text on the fundamentals of Chinese ink painting, while Zhang Hongtu’s ...

Huang Yongyu, a self-taught painter who began producing art aged 14, was beloved in China for his ink paintings of animals. He had been preparing for his centennial exhibition next year when he died.

Benoit Vermander, a French professor at Fudan University's School of Philosophy in Shanghai, has found a liberatory mode of self-expression in Chinese ink paintings. Under the artist name of Bendu ...