By discussing the quality of a line in Chinese painting, we have resolved certain problems but also raised more. A picture is, of course, hardly composed of a single line. If two or more lines appear in a picture, a new problem naturally emerges: what is the relationship between them? To make a picture is by no means simply to put some properly qualified lines together.

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The Relationships Between Lines

  • Jianping Gao

摘要

By discussing the quality of a line in Chinese painting, we have resolved certain problems but also raised more. A picture is, of course, hardly composed of a single line. If two or more lines appear in a picture, a new problem naturally emerges: what is the relationship between them? To make a picture is by no means simply to put some properly qualified lines together.