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Chinese ink

NOUN
India ink
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Iri was trained in traditional Chinese ink and wash painting.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2020

Like the work of a traditional Chinese ink painter, her words sketch around spots of blankness, leaving suggestive lacunae.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 30, 2019

The setting at the Aug. 19 meeting was calm: A room with plush cream carpets, Chinese ink brush landscape paintings and a vase of purple orchids.

From Reuters • Sep. 11, 2014

Some look like giant Rorschach blots, others like oversize Chinese ink brush swaths.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2012

Chen-Ki-Souen, "Lencre de China," by Maurice Jametel, appeared in Paris in 1882, but as the title indicates, it is the old "Indian" or Chinese ink that is discussed.

From Forty Centuries of Ink or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. by Carvalho, David Nunes




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