Contemporary European Hakubyou 白描 or Hakuga 白画 or White drawing Although the term literally means white drawing, hakubyou 白描 is a technique of painting that relies primarily on the use of brushline in monochromatic ink to define form, express movement and capture the essence of the object portrayed.
The ink itself is usually black, but occasionally silver or gold is used, and the markedly fine yet taut quality of the line distinguishes hakubyou from ink painting *suibokuga 水墨画, which incorporates broader, fluctuating brushstrokes and shading. This technique was also used in copying finished paintings, or for preparatory sketches or underdrawings. As a finished work, hakubyou rejects color, believed to inhibit the freedom of brushlines. Hakubyou was actually considered to be more expressive than polychrome painting, especially in its use of modulated lines to suggest volume and movements.
Watercolors made in the European tradition outside of the studio.
Many
watercolors has been selected
for inclusion in number of important watercolor exhibitions like in
1997. Festival akvarela hrvatske, Galerija umjetnina Split again in
1997. at 1st Karlovački
likovni tabor, Dom Oružanih snaga Hrvatske vojske Karlovac, in 1998. at
1st Hrvatski triennale akvarela, Gradski muzej Karlovac/Galerija
umjetnina Slavonski Brod , in 2000. in Generacija 90-tih
(N.Albaneže),Galerija Vjekoslav Karas Karlovac, in 2004. at 3rd Hrvatski
triennal akvarela, Galerija Vjekoslav Karas Karlovac/ Likovni salon
Vladimir Becić Slavonski Brod/Galerija Zvonimir Zagreb etc.
"There
is something very powerful about the work of Alfred Krupa beginning in
his student days. He clearly has both talent from an early age and the
passion and creativity to work beautifully in different styles of
painting. Both lively and with a combination of soft and strong colors,
his use of the watercolor medium is particularly impressive as
watercolor is one of the more difficult mediums with which to work. Like
calligraphy, there is no going back, no correcting. What is painted
stands."
