Rafael Katz’ paints using traditonally crafted Chinese brushes constructed from bamboo, ox-horn, and hair from goats, dogs, and/or various rodents. His brushestrokes apply ink and color to raw handmade xuan paper. He’s been doing this for decades.
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Landscape with Flowers
This painting is a good example of how I like a balance between entropy (let the ink and color takes is course) and control. Adding the little figure…
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So Many Nudes
I sketch models four hours a week. I have never considered that a key part of my artistic output but I enjoy the challenge of sketching with Chinese…
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Contempary Chinese Art
When I describe my art in chinese for a chinese audience, I usually call it contemporary chinese art. I use chinese brushes, paper, and most importantly, chinese techniques.…
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Abstraction
I don’t have many paintings that are purely abstract, which in my mind means no attempt have any narrative image. I consider this painting a cityscape because of…
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Am I too cynical to create beauty?
I have been translating and illustrating classical Chinese poetry for kicks. I strive for English translations that are good modern poems, in the hope that poems written many…
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Laws of Color, Physics and Painting
My effort combine to words with images in my paintings have led me to think about the properties and rules of color. I learned that one of Newton…
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