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Chinese ink

NOUN
India ink
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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

He was clicking through a slideshow that included an image of the building’s structural system hand-drawn in Chinese ink.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 6, 2017

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

Considered as the founder of the Southern School and the originator of monochrome painting in Chinese ink.

From Chinese Painters A Critical Study by Seaver, Frances




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