Through the Sketchbook

What has the sketchbook been in the past and what can it be today? Together this website demonstrates how sketchbooks cross disciplines, skills, cultures, gender, and class etc., to gain a better understanding.

The sketchbooks appear here not necessarily for the 'name' of the artist, but for the different thinking and seeing through the sketchbook.

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The 10 pages of this sketchbook contain ink drawings that explain the method of painting trees, bamboo, mountains, and rocks, with text.

 

Ni Zan produces this guide to painting methods for his nephew who wishes to study with him. c.1350.


Ink on paper.

 

Artist: Ni Zan.

Ni Zan 2
Rocks. © Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan.
Ni Zan 3
Trees. © Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan.
Ni Zan 1
Trees. © Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan.