What is knife painting?

The full name of knife painting is knife-pen oil painting.

Knife-pen oil painting is referred to as knife painting. As the name suggests, it is painted with a steel knife instead of pen. It uses oil paint raw materials, first smeared on oilcloth-style paper, and then scraped regularly on wood board, cloth, and paper with a homemade knife. Achieve the painter's ideal graphic effect. Knife painting mainly takes landscapes and pastoral scenes as its theme, and its style is somewhere between oil painting and traditional Chinese painting. It is an emerging art field.

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The founder of knife painting is Song Wanqing, a native of Dunhua City, Jilin Province. On the afternoon of March 18, 1978, Mr. Song was concentrating on painting an oil painting on a wooden board. Inadvertently, the painting board was stained by dripping oil paint. Mr. Song was very anxious. He had been painting for a day, but was ruined by this drop of oil paint. He hurriedly used a traditional oil painting knife to scrape the flowing oil paint. This scraping produced unexpected effects. But the traditional oil painting knife is used to add color. This scraping indeed produces a special expressive effect. After that, the new art of oil painting using subtractive color painting was born.