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Secret of Sumi

Sumi  is not ink. Ink is totalitarian. Sumi is subtle, Sumi is different and causes difference. Sumi is a way of painting with Sumi. In Japan Sumi is used many centuries and the great masters in painting are known by their work. Sumi reveals everything: every stroke, every action with the brush. When it has … Doorgaan met het lezen van Secret of Sumi

japanese landscape

Henry P. Bowie, On the laws of Japanese Painting. An introduction to the study of the art of Japan. With prefatory remarks by Iwaya Sazanami and Hirai Kinza, Toronto 1952 (Dover publications Inc.) (Republication of this work originally published by P. Elder and Company, San Francisco 1911).  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35580/35580-h/35580-h.html The law of YO HITSU requires a … Doorgaan met het lezen van japanese landscape