Period:Unknown Production date:1994
Materials:paper
Technique:
Subjects:bird domestic building
Dimensions:Height: 99 centimetres Width: 101 centimetres
Description:
Framed calligraphy; ink on paper. The vigorous portrayal of the character for ‘opening’ (‘kai’) left little doubt that the ‘door of the old country’ mentioned in the inscription had been abruptly opened. Behind the open door, however, is the image of an old house, still in good order, near which perches a ‘heping’, the bird of peace. The suggestion is visually powerful: even with the door open, all has remained well in China. Dated and inscribed.
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![图片[1]-calligraphy BM-1996-0614-0.29-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Calligraphic works/mid_00110421_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-calligraphy BM-1996-0614-0.29-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Calligraphic works/mid_00564310_001.jpg)
Comments:Barrass, 2002:Gu Gan produced this work for the tenth anniversary exhibition of the Modernist movement, held in Nanjing in October 1995. It soon came to be regerded as the most important item in the show, making the point that China has nothing to fear from becoming more closely linked with the rest of the world.
Materials:paper
Technique:
Subjects:bird domestic building
Dimensions:Height: 99 centimetres Width: 101 centimetres
Description:
Framed calligraphy; ink on paper. The vigorous portrayal of the character for ‘opening’ (‘kai’) left little doubt that the ‘door of the old country’ mentioned in the inscription had been abruptly opened. Behind the open door, however, is the image of an old house, still in good order, near which perches a ‘heping’, the bird of peace. The suggestion is visually powerful: even with the door open, all has remained well in China. Dated and inscribed.
IMG
Comments:Barrass, 2002:Gu Gan produced this work for the tenth anniversary exhibition of the Modernist movement, held in Nanjing in October 1995. It soon came to be regerded as the most important item in the show, making the point that China has nothing to fear from becoming more closely linked with the rest of the world.
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