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Landscape
Details
WESLEY TONGSON (1957-2012)
Landscape
Scroll, mounted and framed
Ink and colour on paper
96 x 179.5 cm. (37 ¾ x 70 5/8 in.)
Landscape
Scroll, mounted and framed
Ink and colour on paper
96 x 179.5 cm. (37 ¾ x 70 5/8 in.)
Further details
An artist mostly withdrawn from the world, Wesley Tongson found consolation and joy in the pure act of painting. Landscape, created when the artist was thirty-one years old (late 1980s), witnesses Tongson’s exploration of the splashed ink technique, which he began to paint as early as the late 1970s while studying in Canada. With great admiration for 20th century renowned Chinese painter Zhang Daqian, Tongson’s splashed ink paintings echo the loftiness of the master’s work. One can easily see Tongson’s skilful application of bright mineral colours and his manipulation of the semi-autonomous method to create atmospheric mountain landscape. “I believe that artistic creation requires purity, passion, and integrity,” he once said, “without which no good work of art can ever be produced.”
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