On Color and Light Expression in ZHANG Da qian’s Splashed Ink and Color Landscape Paintings

ZHANG Da qian’s splashed ink and color paintings have combined the traditional color and ink with national light, and have broken through the color using modes which have been adopted by painters for thousand years, which has greatly increased the charm of colors of Chinese paintings. This is unique color employment of which ZHANG combined colors of traditional Chinese paintings with modern Western arts. Water, color and ink are the main parts of coloration. The change of color and ink, dense or thin, empty or full, is the expression of light’s brightness or darkness, white or black, on objects. Such comprehensive symbolized color feeling through subjective choice is the advanced expression of splashed color and ink landscape paintings with strong aesthetic connotation which surpasses the reality but only exists in reality.