Blank space also has a very elegant alias-"Yu Yu", which highlights agility with white cloth and enriches interpretation with ethereal spirit, similar to the "silence" of a moment in a musical performance. Properly handling the blank space in the picture can not only create the aesthetic mood of the picture and the atmosphere of the work, but also reflect the artist's unique aesthetic feeling and the artist's interpretation of the Tao contained in all things in the universe. This is the essential difference between Chinese painting and western painting.
Blank application:
1, calligraphy,
Calligraphy pays attention to "density", concise and blank. The structure and layout of the characters must be dense, so as to break the flatness, uniformity, ups and downs, contrast, contradiction and harmony and obtain good artistic taste. When doing calligraphy, we should not only pay attention to the black part-the dense part of glyph strokes, but also pay attention to the sparse part of white between calligraphy and painting and between lines. The black places should be carefully written, while the white places-the arrangement between the lines should also be handled properly, so that the density is good, and the two set each other off.
2, painting, Chinese painting often uses some white space to express the water, clouds, wind and other scenes needed in the picture. This technique is more subtle and restrained than directly using color to render expression. Later, this technique was gradually applied to other paintings, which is what we call blank space. Blanking can coordinate the composition of the picture and reduce the sense of depression caused by too full composition. It is natural to guide readers to focus on the theme.