Brush strokes with different patterns of Chinese ink make the elegant and expressive art works more impressive than color painting.

中国水墨画以不同的笔触描绘出高雅而富于表现力的艺术作品，比色彩画更令人印象深刻。

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Henri's disciples were known collectively as the Ashcan School, partly because of the lowlife subjects they painted, but also because of the gritty, expressive handling of paint, which you can see in the swift brush strokes of "Forty-two Kids, " and Bellows's famous painting of an illicit prizefight, "Stag at Sharkey's" (1909).

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