About 5,000 years ago, the Chinese began using ink for writing. The ink was a mixture of soot from pine smoke and lamp oil, thickened with gelatin from animal skins and musk.

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 ...

Chinese Ink. For 5,000 years, artists and writers across Asia have used a glossy, dark black, ... Chinese ink is traditionally comprised of animal glue, carbon black and water.

THE Lingnan School was part of an important chapter in the history of Chinese ink painting. Lingnan, which means south of the mountain, referred to Canton in ancient times. Many of the artists ...

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 ...