The new edition of the book "L'ESPRIT DU GESTE" will be in bookstores
on wednesday 22nd october 2025
in France and in french-speaking countires
"l'ESPRIT DU GESTE" - Editions HACHETTE-MARABOUT
This 268-page book, on the spirit and practice of Ch'an and Sumie painting offers, texts, illustration and classic teaching methods for beginners or for experienced painters. You will find all the techniques for painting the four gentlemen, lotus, trees, rocks, mountains and landscapes.
Ch'an or sumi-e painting, practiced for centuries by Chinese and Japanese painters, is characterized by the unique use of Indian ink. His learning develops the dexterity, the ease, the speed of the gesture and claims a course without touching or correction. It is a question of representing the essential, by suggestion rather than detail, to restore the spontaneity and energy of each thing.
To introduce us to this discovery, Robert Faure accompanies you in the internal path necessary to acquire the know-how and techniques of the brush. Thanks to many exercises, it allows a progressive accompaniment from the first features to the more elaborate paintings. In the footsteps of China and Japan, this book of initiation is a personal guide to rediscover the path of authentic creativity.
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