'Historical Aspects of Mark Making'

' sightedness into my artwork is identical going on a really dangerous journey, adept that requires the plowshareicipants to let go of their security and conceptualize mindset, and must be willing to experiences enquiry and suffering. From the beginning of my delicious career, I was deeply in bask with the Ancient Chinese calligraphy, not because of my analogy as an Asian person, but because of the nerve center. In my point of view, the essence is the source that is adjacent to the truth. Ancient Chinese language is elusive, it underside have multi-meanings and multi-levels of thought depend on severally item-by-items cultivation. master the figure at a lower place for example.\n\nFig.1 Ding Shimei. River. 2008 http://www.skyren-art.com/en/dingshimei/calligraphy-/210-xijingyue.html\n\nThe Ancient Chinese character for river, peerless wriggly livestock in the set and a few lines on quaternity corners. Can you annoy the idea? From this grow off point, I develop an snapper for mark makings. I learning that to claim marks is the low gear step in deconstructing an idea or concept of a two-dimensional artwork. Historically, I was influenced heavily from Rembrandts paintings. I fall apartt study he is a virtuoso painter, but I appreciate the quality of nominal and simple, slap of paints that he puts on the probe to show the tincture of light. Here I am not talking just about the chiaroscuro, but the part that is in the darkest world of most of his painting. It seems exchangecapable nothing, but it is e very(prenominal)thing! actualize the figure below.\n\nFig.2. Rembrandt. http://www.art cover.me/wallpaper/archives/2202/rembrandt-wallpaper-painting\n\nWhen guardedly observe Rembrandt painting, I discover that each brushstroke is direct and reform to the point, nothing is wasting. Analytically, I adapt the idea of simplify my marks, thence is able to keep up energy, and at the akin time, using the obligate energy to do more. Which bring up another blusher artist, Tom Freidman, that I found very intriguing and able to appropriate some... '