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1973-9
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What appears to be one dramatic gesture is really the result of a complex series of applications of splashed color and brushed ink. The circular format, always a challenge to compose, finds antecedents in the round painted fans of traditional China; the format here provides the perfect “non-window” for the artist’s nonrepresentational painting.
Feng Zhongrui joined the Fifth Moon Group—an association of Taiwan artists concerned with the modernization of Chinese art—in 1961. Five years later his works were exhibited in the U.S. His spontaneous applications of layers of color and ink attracted great interest in this country, and in 1975 Feng relocated to the San Francisco area.
Department of Asian Art
Feng Zhongrui Taiwan (1973) probably gift; to Chu-tsing Li Lawrence Kansas (1973?-2012) gift; to his son B U.K. Li Milwaukee Wisconsin (2012-2014) gift; to Harvard Art Museums 2014.
Footnotes:
1. Dr. Chu-tsing Li (1920-2014)
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Chu-tsing Li Collection Gift of B U.K. Li in memory of Chu-tsing Li Yao-wen Kwang Li and Teri Ho Li
Title: 1973-9
Description:
What appears to be one dramatic gesture is really the result of a complex series of applications of splashed color and brushed ink.
The circular format, always a challenge to compose, finds antecedents in the round painted fans of traditional China; the format here provides the perfect “non-window” for the artist’s nonrepresentational painting.
Feng Zhongrui joined the Fifth Moon Group—an association of Taiwan artists concerned with the modernization of Chinese art—in 1961.
Five years later his works were exhibited in the U.
S.
His spontaneous applications of layers of color and ink attracted great interest in this country, and in 1975 Feng relocated to the San Francisco area.
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