Chinese ink
Americannoun
noun
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Iri was trained in traditional Chinese ink and wash painting.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2020
Like the work of a traditional Chinese ink painter, her words sketch around spots of blankness, leaving suggestive lacunae.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 30, 2019
The setting at the Aug. 19 meeting was calm: A room with plush cream carpets, Chinese ink brush landscape paintings and a vase of purple orchids.
From Reuters • Sep. 11, 2014
Some look like giant Rorschach blots, others like oversize Chinese ink brush swaths.
From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2012
The student Anselmus spoke largely of his often-acknowledged perfection in this art, of his fine Chinese ink, and most select crow-quills.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
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