Gesture
| Definition | A movement of the body to emphasie or express an idea. In a picture the use of line, color or form to express movement. |
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| Artist | Xu Gu |
| Title | Fish |
| Date | |
| Medium | Ink on Colored Paper |
| Location | The National Museum, Bejing |
| Source | 30,000 Years of Art; Phaidon Publications; ISBN: 978-0-7148-4789-4; Page 896 |
| Example |  |
| Comments | The smooth curved lines of the fish's body along with the darker shadows give the sense of fish swimming through the water. |
| Inspired |
Fish Swept up in the Momentum of the flow. Crashing into those Going too slow. While the fast are Moving at full steam. The rest are Caught in the stream. |