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China has a very long history, and Chinese culture is deep and profound. Therefore, Chinese painting has it’s unique character and extraordinary disposition, that makes it different from western painting. For centuries, it became a fad of the world, and let the collectors go after in a swarm. Shia Kuei of Southern Sung Dynasty, learned Li Tang’s painting in his early age,got solid foundation, and formed his own features in his middle age. He is fond of putting sceneries in one side, to present dim and endlessly distant space, people of the later age called him“ Shia Half Side ”. The difference between he and Ma Yuan is mainly that he painted with water ink, holding no wealthy character of pretending dignity like Ma Yuan had, instead, he carried more natural and wild fun. He preferred to use splash of ink to damp the painting mistly, then moisten a worned-down brush with ink to tinge, his technique of representing irregular surfaces was strong and natural, and the fluid ink was thorough and complete. The purpose of this research is to understand the connotation and conception of Chinese water ink painting and literati painting, also, to study Zen painting and Taoist School Thought, and to represent the beautiful sense of Shia Kuei’s detachment conception.
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