Five Hundred Arhats · No.60 Venerable Jinshan Jueyi, Minimalist Line Drawing (「白描」) | Traditional Hand-Painted Chinese Ink Painting, Zen Buddhist Figure Art | 100×50cm

Five Hundred Arhats · No.60: Venerable Jinshan Jueyi — Minimalist Line Drawing (「白描」)

The inscription here reads only "Jinshan" (「金山」): the painter renders the venerable in the minimalist line-drawing manner (「白描」, reduced brush) — pure ink lines, no colour applied (「不施一色」), form and spirit complete in a few strokes, achieving more with less. The brushwork is spare, light and ethereal; in the vast negative space appears the Zen realm of "originally not a single thing" (「本来无一物」) — the simpler the trace, the deeper the mastery it reveals.

A distinctive branch of the Five Hundred Arhats series, the minimalist line-drawing edition carries the fullest meaning in the fewest strokes. Set against the standard freehand edition — one elaborate, one sparse — the two bring out each other's beauty: a rare specimen for savouring Li Zongyi's brush language and for comparative collecting. Each painting is a hand-painted one-of-a-kind original, impossible to duplicate.

Size approx. 100×50cm (4.5 sq ft) | Traditional hand-painted Chinese ink painting, Zen Buddhist figure art | Ink on paper

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