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Niagara Falls and Grand Canyon in ink wash
By Xu Wenwen |
December 6, 2011, Tuesday
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TRADITIONAL Chinese painting typically depicts the landscapes, the birds and flowers, and figures of China, but modern master of traditional ink wash has traveled worldwide and painted distinctive scenes of five continents.
Huang Junbi (1898-1991), who settled in Taiwan and painted there for much of his life, is considered a pivotal figure in traditional Chinese painting who witnessed many changes over the past century. He is compared with master painters Xu Beihong and Zhang Daqian.
A show of Hung's 110 works is underway through December 15 at the Zhejiang Art Museum.
The exhibition is a panoramic view of Huang's art over 60 years, featuring his magnificent strokes and exquisite execution from his early years, middle age and old age.
The works are property of the Huang Junbi Culture and Arts Association, which is headed by Huang's daughter Huang Xiangling.
"My father's art had three phases - first he understood ancient artists, then he understood the natural world, and finally he created his own style," says Huang Xiangling.
In his early years Huang imitated celebrated paintings by ancient masters - imitation is a common way of practicing traditional painting; his early works are mainly copies.
In his middle age, Huang broke from the confinement of traditional painting and settled in Taiwan. There he used traditional ink-wash painting and some techniques of Western oil paintings to depict Taiwan landscapes, especially clouds and waterfalls in their many shades and movements.
"Households on Cliff" is a transitional work depicting lofty mountains. In the middle of the painting, on top of one mountain, there are several small houses. From the highest peak, a waterfall creates mist that joins with the sea of clouds surging among the peaks.
The clouds and the waterfall were painted in his own style, with a non-traditional technique, to create a scene both magnificent and peaceful," says Chen Lusheng, curator of Zhejiang Art Museum.
After the exhibition, this representative painting will be donated to the Zhejiang Art Museum for its permanent collection.
From the late 1950s Huang traveled widely overseas and used his blend of traditional and personal technique to render foreign landscapes.
"He toured Africa where he saw lions on the plains and said an artist needs to be open minded to draw more foreign landscapes," says his daughter. "When he went to Niagara Falls, he was as excited as a child and told me he would dream of painting the spectacular falls."
In the 1970s, Huang painted a series of waterfalls in foreign countries, hiring an aircraft to observe Niagara Falls in Canada and the United States, Victoria Falls in southern Africa, and Iguassu Falls in Brazil on the border with Argentina.
When Huang was 87, he visited the Grand Canyon in the US state of Arizona and made a painting on the site.
Though his works are magnificent in content - mountains, clouds, waterfalls - they are also serene and seem simple. He wrote poems on some of his works.
Date: through December 15, 9am-5pm (closed on Mondays)
Address: 138 Nanshan Rd
Tel: (0571) 8707-8700
Huang Junbi (1898-1991), who settled in Taiwan and painted there for much of his life, is considered a pivotal figure in traditional Chinese painting who witnessed many changes over the past century. He is compared with master painters Xu Beihong and Zhang Daqian.
A show of Hung's 110 works is underway through December 15 at the Zhejiang Art Museum.
The exhibition is a panoramic view of Huang's art over 60 years, featuring his magnificent strokes and exquisite execution from his early years, middle age and old age.
The works are property of the Huang Junbi Culture and Arts Association, which is headed by Huang's daughter Huang Xiangling.
"My father's art had three phases - first he understood ancient artists, then he understood the natural world, and finally he created his own style," says Huang Xiangling.
In his early years Huang imitated celebrated paintings by ancient masters - imitation is a common way of practicing traditional painting; his early works are mainly copies.
In his middle age, Huang broke from the confinement of traditional painting and settled in Taiwan. There he used traditional ink-wash painting and some techniques of Western oil paintings to depict Taiwan landscapes, especially clouds and waterfalls in their many shades and movements.
"Households on Cliff" is a transitional work depicting lofty mountains. In the middle of the painting, on top of one mountain, there are several small houses. From the highest peak, a waterfall creates mist that joins with the sea of clouds surging among the peaks.
The clouds and the waterfall were painted in his own style, with a non-traditional technique, to create a scene both magnificent and peaceful," says Chen Lusheng, curator of Zhejiang Art Museum.
After the exhibition, this representative painting will be donated to the Zhejiang Art Museum for its permanent collection.
From the late 1950s Huang traveled widely overseas and used his blend of traditional and personal technique to render foreign landscapes.
"He toured Africa where he saw lions on the plains and said an artist needs to be open minded to draw more foreign landscapes," says his daughter. "When he went to Niagara Falls, he was as excited as a child and told me he would dream of painting the spectacular falls."
In the 1970s, Huang painted a series of waterfalls in foreign countries, hiring an aircraft to observe Niagara Falls in Canada and the United States, Victoria Falls in southern Africa, and Iguassu Falls in Brazil on the border with Argentina.
When Huang was 87, he visited the Grand Canyon in the US state of Arizona and made a painting on the site.
Though his works are magnificent in content - mountains, clouds, waterfalls - they are also serene and seem simple. He wrote poems on some of his works.
Date: through December 15, 9am-5pm (closed on Mondays)
Address: 138 Nanshan Rd
Tel: (0571) 8707-8700
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