From the artistic point of view, blank space is to render the artistic conception of beauty with "blank space" as the carrier. From the application point of view, blank space refers to a simple and leisurely concept. Blank is mainly divided into: text blank, artistic blank, philosophical blank and application blank.
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In traditional Chinese painting, some blank spaces are often used to show the water, clouds, wind and other scenes needed in the picture. This technique is more subtle and restrained than directly using color to render and express. 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.
Painting needs blank space, artists are often masters of blank space, and the square inch of land also shows the width of heaven and earth. In Ma Yuan's "Fishing Alone in the Cold River" in the Southern Song Dynasty, I only saw a picture of a boat and a fisherman fishing. There is no trace of water in the whole picture, which makes people feel misty and the whole picture is full of water. It gives people room for imagination, so the art of leaving blank without victory has high aesthetic value, as the saying goes, "there is no victory here."
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.
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