Recently there has been renewed enthusiasm among contemporary painters in China for large-scale ink painting done in the traditional style ... Liu Guosong 刘国松, Gu Wenda 谷文达, Yang Jiecang 杨诘苍 , Li Huayi 李华弌， Liu Dan 刘丹, Xu Bing 徐冰， Qiu Zhijie 邱志傑 ...
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Recently there has been renewed enthusiasm among contemporary painters in China for large-scale ink painting done in the traditional style ... Liu Guosong 刘国松, Gu Wenda 谷文达, Yang Jiecang 杨诘苍 , Li Huayi 李华弌， Liu Dan 刘丹, Xu Bing 徐冰， Qiu Zhijie 邱志傑 ... I particularly like this one. While I find almost all of them interesting as explorations, some of them border so strongly on the abstract they loose a sense of composition. This has a nice sense of balance and light. The tones are working very hard, and that gives it a kind of drama that I'm drawn to. As usual with your work, it's still abstracted, and so texture, grit, and the working of two elements against each other (digital ink versus digital paper) play into the viewing experience more so than is common. It's very pleasing to see you take some of these techniques I normally only see you apply to quite abstract work and work them in to something a bit more representational.
Pete
2/12/2013 11:43:40 pm
Hi Steve, thanks for the thoughtful comments, especially valued coming from an artist whose work I admire ... This probably isn't the best place to tease out ideas on abstract/representational, so for now I'll just say that directionally I agree with all you are saying, I also would like the (implied) subjects to come more sharply into focus against the ground, and recently have been introducing crosshatching and other drawing techniques into the compositions to that end (calligraphics, though, continues to exert a strong pull in the opposite direction) ... Comments are closed.
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