Abstract landscape paintings in traditional
Chinese and Japanese painting

Size:
27" x 23"
69 x 58 cm

Japanese ink,
sumi on rice
paper

Stretched
painting ready
for Western
style framing

Abstract landscape paintings in the East are no accidental abstract forms, they are keen simplifications that capture the essentials of the subject-matter.

Unlike the West, where paintings are divided into figurative and abstract paintings, we cannot find these same categories in traditional Oriental painting.

As painting is rooted in the art of calligraphy, it is based on the same aesthetics. By means of dots and brush strokes, the artist creates a soul image of the object and tries to convey the life spirit which dwells in it. This is particularly the case for landscape paintings which recreate the universal life spirit, present in Mountains and Rivers.

That is why there is actually no such thing as abstract painting in the traditional Japanese and Chinese painting, as a good painting is in fact always abstract painting rooted in a simplification that respects the life spirit of the object.

In this landscape painting the artist has made full use of the expressivity of the one brush stroke, in its unlimited variations of dots and lines. She lets the mountain speak in a very direct way, and makes the mountain emerge in her brushwork, in its full strength and beauty.

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