唐代张彦远在《历代名画记》里曾描述张璪以“手摸素娟”的作画情形,这或许是以手指作画的最早记载。从某种意义上讲,虽然张璪创发了以指作画的先机,但之后却并没有演变成一个宗派或画种,只不过指画是历代文人画家偶为的“墨戏”而已。直到清初辽宁铁岭人高其佩才完整提出以指作画的法理及审美取向,并穷其毕生精力探索指墨艺术规律与真谛,创作了大量题材丰富的指墨作品,在中国绘画史上产生了深远影响。自此,指墨画成为中国绘画之一画科或画法。 In the “Famous Paintings of Various Dynasties”, Zhang Yan-yuan of the Tang Dynasty once described the painting situation of Zhang Jian as “hand-touch Su-Juan ”, which may be the earliest record of finger painting. In a sense, though Zhang Jian has created a first chance to refer to painting, he has not evolved into a denomination or painting since then, but only refers to painting as an occasional “ink play” by literati artists of all generations. . Until the early Qing Dynasty, people in Liaoning Tieling Gao Qipei completely proposed to refer to the law of painting and aesthetic orientation, and his life’s energy to explore the law and essence of ink art, creating a large number of subjects of the ink-rich works in the history of Chinese painting produced deep influence. Since then, ink painting has become one of the Chinese paintings, painting or painting.