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Gourds (Finger Painting)

Design & Embroidering by Lu Junjian1997

Yangzhou Museum

Yangzhou Museum
Yangzhou, China

The painting was done by Luo Pin (1733-1799 AD), one of the famous painters known as the “Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou”, who painted these gourds with his finger dyed with ink when he was drunk. Such a technique, later regarded as “finger painting”, is a unique category with special interest in traditional Chinese painting. This gourd finger painting features simple and seemingly clumsy brushwork, characteristic of inscriptions on ancient bronzeware and stone steles.
With her masterful application of a series of techniques including thickening stitches (shi zhen, 施针), long and short stitches (changduan zhen, 长短针), seeding stitches (dian zhen, 点针), broken-line-making stitches (xu zhen, 虚针), the artist succeeded in representing a multi-tiered image and the free-flowing brushwork alternating dark and pale strokes, characteristic of finger painting.

Details

  • Title: Gourds (Finger Painting)
  • Creator: Design & Embroidering by Lu Junjian
  • Date: 1997
  • Type: Embroidery

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