ink wash paintings

I love the ink wash paintings of monochromatic shades of black -the paintings of Gao XinJiang seeps through with the stark desolateness of a zen like landscape -amidst of which a solitary figure or a few amorphous shapes of men stands .There is a hint of detachment,of withdrawal from the affairs of the world and like the scholar philosophers of ancient China,they retreat to the wilderness for solace.The stillness of the natural landscape sweeps through the unflinching figures.The mood exudes an aura of vast emptiness of which the human is so insignificant by comparison.The deft strokes are so subtle and suggestively hints at the turmoil that the artist had undergone to be able to depict so much with so little.People who have undergone such pain have depths of intensity that comes through in their art,their music,their works.