Period:Unknown Production date:2000
Materials:paper
Technique:painted
Subjects:calligraphy
Dimensions:Height: 70.60 centimetres (Height including backing paper) Height: 68.50 centimetres (Height of original paper) Width: 136.50 centimetres (Width including backing paper) Width: 135.50 centimetres (Width of original paper)
Description:
Calligraphy, made of ink on paper, inspired by an ancient Chinese poem on the beauty of the wisteria. It consists of five lines of ‘characters’ in contrasting brushwork and densities of ink.
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![图片[1]-calligraphy; painting BM-2001-0203-0.3-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Paintings/mid_00148376_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-calligraphy; painting BM-2001-0203-0.3-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Paintings/mid_00148389_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-calligraphy; painting BM-2001-0203-0.3-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Paintings/mid_00148035_001.jpg)
Comments:Barrass 2002:”Wisteria Sinensis” is a study in the subtle effects that can be created when the techniques of painting and calligraphy are combined. By moving the brush slowly, the artist has created different effects of tone and line, recalling the wisteria cascading down in dappled sunlight. As the artist wrote, he had real characters in his mind, which formed the basis of his abstractions. But soon after he had finished, he could no longer see the clues in the forms to remind him of the original characters. Wei Ligang’s aim in his calligraphy is not to provide textual gratification, but rather to compel the viewer to marvel at this artistic transformation of a tradition that stretches back more than 3,500 years.
Materials:paper
Technique:painted
Subjects:calligraphy
Dimensions:Height: 70.60 centimetres (Height including backing paper) Height: 68.50 centimetres (Height of original paper) Width: 136.50 centimetres (Width including backing paper) Width: 135.50 centimetres (Width of original paper)
Description:
Calligraphy, made of ink on paper, inspired by an ancient Chinese poem on the beauty of the wisteria. It consists of five lines of ‘characters’ in contrasting brushwork and densities of ink.
IMG
Comments:Barrass 2002:”Wisteria Sinensis” is a study in the subtle effects that can be created when the techniques of painting and calligraphy are combined. By moving the brush slowly, the artist has created different effects of tone and line, recalling the wisteria cascading down in dappled sunlight. As the artist wrote, he had real characters in his mind, which formed the basis of his abstractions. But soon after he had finished, he could no longer see the clues in the forms to remind him of the original characters. Wei Ligang’s aim in his calligraphy is not to provide textual gratification, but rather to compel the viewer to marvel at this artistic transformation of a tradition that stretches back more than 3,500 years.
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