MoiMoii's Random Thoughts And Ramblings: 10th April 2012 Images That Speak Volumes

Tuesday, 10 April 2012

10th April 2012 Images That Speak Volumes

Be it a sketch, a drawing, a picture or painting, or a photograph; some actually speak up to you or tell you stories. From my very young years, I was fascinated especially by the traditional Chinese ink and brush paintings. With just a few dollops of ink, used with great skill and precise control, so that it drops just the right amount of ink on to the parchment (paper made with calf, sheep or goatskin), or silk or canvas; the different shade does created creates just the right depth and shades. The finished work often looks so very simple that makes you invariably think, mistakenly, how simple and easy it is yet, it conveys not just the visually self explainable picture or scene, but 'tells' feelings, emotions and stories, even profound and complicated ones.

I started young to attempt first copying and later inventing my own pictures. Never got one single result to satisfy my own very critical idea of how it should be but frustratingly impossible to make it materialize. So there have been start & stop, off & on period for I lost count how many times and how many years. One day I just say to myself that, sadly, I needed I don't exactly know what to become a reasonable painter of such art, let alone my deep-down desire to be a good one. So I gave up, albeit very reluctantly.

It didn't stop me forget about it all together though. Once in a blue moon I would make some rough sketches to represent this and that, rather casually, so as not to feel utter disappointment again.

This picture below, does it tell you something? Like: The ascension of China, with it's centuries long culture and civilization till the 18th century, then became desperately poor during 150 years and, since 1979, re-emerged once again, steadily, to become now the country with the most dynamic economy & sustainable power of the world.