Experimental Studies Of Water Rubbing Painting

The Water Rubbing Painting can be trace back to Tang Dynasty in Chinese literature.Due to the lack of specific record and few short descriptions about it,the Water Rubbing Painting hadn ’ t had a good development and at last disappeared in Chinese art painting history.Traditional Chinese Painting is particular about composition,layout and image,attention to the shape of ink by using brush.However, Water Rubbing Painting is totally different with the traditional Chinese painting, as it has no rigorous composition and arrangements, showing only by natural texture, which formed of ink that randomly dropping into water, and then recorded by rice paper, without any brush using. While traditional Chinese painting continues to develop, Water Rubbing Painting was being re-valued when the Experimental Ink Painting time comes, so Chinese artists was seeking a new method of painting that the abstract, random, free-form painting even those creative without brush, has been recognized as a part of Chinese painting. Nevertheless, Water Rubbing Painting still unable to inside the mainstream of the Experimental Ink Painting in decades, only as sketches of the experiment or folk paintings. Except for the uncontrollable and the diffusible, Water Rubbing Painting has its easy-expressive characteristic.The author will give a research basic on the uncontrollability and the diffusion-ability and other characteristics of Water Rubbing Painting techniques, according to the variability of material and diversity of painting techniques of Water Rubbing Painting, with plenty of experimental proof, that the collision of different materials will have a completely different effect. Aim to rich the Experimental Ink Painting techniques, to promote the development of modern Chinese ink painting, and keep the natural aesthetic of Water Rubbing Painting, also desplay the uncontrollability in technique, the author will experimental summarized a more controllable technique and make it the protagonist.