In consideration of the artistic understanding of the Oriental art, I conduct
the analysis of the Black Ink and the Five Colors in the understanding of that
Black Ink supposed to embrace the Five Colors that symbolize all of the colors.
Also I research about the Five Colors that appeared in literature in the meaning
of the Five Elements and the development progress into the Five Colors. Based
on the understanding of the relations to the Black Ink,
I analyze the philosophy and artistic quality of the Orient’s traditional Ink
and Wash Painting. Recognizing the genuine start of Ink and Wash Painting in
the historical matter, I research through the formation and development of it.
From the times when the Black Ink was produced as to represent total colors
to the times of Six State Era [229-589], when the Black Ink was used for writing
and painting, the recordings are examined from the theories of occidental art.
Through the formation of the Black Ink, I look into the time period and
philosophical changes when the Black Ink was introduced. In the study of the
Five Colors that represent all of the colors in the world, I first study about the
Five Direction Colors that derived from Yin-Yan and the Five Elements Theory
that existed from the ancient times.
In the modern culture where visual images are majored, I tried to study the
meaning of Ink and Wash Painting in the use of modernized transformation and
suggest the possibilities. This research has the implications for traditional art
education in the sense that it broadens the understanding of the Black Ink and the
Five Colors by revisiting its aesthetic significances.