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Landscape, February 1997
Details
FANG ZHAOLIN (1914-2006)
Landscape, February 1997
Hanging scroll
Ink and colour on paper
179 x 96.5 cm. (70 1/2 x 38 in.)
Executed in 1997
EXHIBITED
Hong Kong, Alisan Fine Arts, Fang Zhaoling: Vigorous and Fresh Chinese Ink Painting, 9 October – 10 November 2012
LITERATURE
Fang Zhaoling: Vigorous and Fresh Chinese Ink Painting, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, 2012, p. 43
Landscape, February 1997
Hanging scroll
Ink and colour on paper
179 x 96.5 cm. (70 1/2 x 38 in.)
Executed in 1997
EXHIBITED
Hong Kong, Alisan Fine Arts, Fang Zhaoling: Vigorous and Fresh Chinese Ink Painting, 9 October – 10 November 2012
LITERATURE
Fang Zhaoling: Vigorous and Fresh Chinese Ink Painting, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, 2012, p. 43
Further details
Fang Zhaolin’s journey as an artist was inspired by many prominent painters of the 20th century. She first received training from Chen Jiucun and Qian Songyan in Shanghai; while in Hong Kong, she studied under Lu Xinnong and Zhao Shao’ang who opened the doors to the Lingnan School. She became a student of Zhang Daqian in 1953, an experience that had profound influence on her art. Fang’s mature works after the 1960s accentuate her superb skill in using confident, calligraphic brushworks to depict mountains. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, she dedicated most of her time to painting landscape: the highlands of north-western China, the cave dwellings, and the Yellow River are recurrent subjects. A distinctive landscape composition representative of her oeuvre, Landscape, February 1997 depicts tall and steep mountains occupying both sides of the painting, leaving a gap in the middle where a walking path or a stream is often added. At the bottom of the painting, a lake bustling with life such as boats sailing and children playing can be seen. With a unique underlying humour, Fang’s works resemble genre painting and often express a social ideology shared by the viewer.
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