Period:Unknown Production date:1966
Materials:paper
Technique:
Subjects:calligraphy
Dimensions:Height: 136.60 centimetres (left scroll) Height: 136.80 centimetres (right scroll) Width: 33.80 centimetres (left scroll) Width: 33.80 centimetres (right scroll)
Description:
Pair of hanging scrolls with calligraphy, made of ink on paper. The artist created this couplet from two separate lines of the “Li Sao” by Qu Yuan (340-278 BC) to express his concern that something terrible was about to happen in China: “I look West towards Mount Yanzi, but do not proceed, / Afraid that the shrike will sing before the equinox, / showing that all Nature has gone awry”.
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![图片[1]-calligraphy BM-1996-0614-0.20.1-2-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Calligraphic works/mid_00156862_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-calligraphy BM-1996-0614-0.20.1-2-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Calligraphic works/mid_00482414_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-calligraphy BM-1996-0614-0.20.1-2-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Calligraphic works/mid_01298210_001.jpg)
![图片[4]-calligraphy BM-1996-0614-0.20.1-2-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Calligraphic works/mid_01298212_001.jpg)
Comments:Barrass 2002:By 1966, as the atmosphere worsened that summer with China moving inexorably towards the horrors of The Cultural Revolution, Zhang Zhengyu had a premonition that something terrible would soon occur and decided to create this piece. He gave the scrolls to his friend Yang Xianyi, who had had a similar premonition. Both of them were right: during the Cultural Revolution, Zhang Zhengyu, along with several of his friends, was condemned as a ‘ghost and a monster’.In Chinese mythology Mount Yanzi is where the sun sets and is therefore associated with death.
Materials:paper
Technique:
Subjects:calligraphy
Dimensions:Height: 136.60 centimetres (left scroll) Height: 136.80 centimetres (right scroll) Width: 33.80 centimetres (left scroll) Width: 33.80 centimetres (right scroll)
Description:
Pair of hanging scrolls with calligraphy, made of ink on paper. The artist created this couplet from two separate lines of the “Li Sao” by Qu Yuan (340-278 BC) to express his concern that something terrible was about to happen in China: “I look West towards Mount Yanzi, but do not proceed, / Afraid that the shrike will sing before the equinox, / showing that all Nature has gone awry”.
IMG
Comments:Barrass 2002:By 1966, as the atmosphere worsened that summer with China moving inexorably towards the horrors of The Cultural Revolution, Zhang Zhengyu had a premonition that something terrible would soon occur and decided to create this piece. He gave the scrolls to his friend Yang Xianyi, who had had a similar premonition. Both of them were right: during the Cultural Revolution, Zhang Zhengyu, along with several of his friends, was condemned as a ‘ghost and a monster’.In Chinese mythology Mount Yanzi is where the sun sets and is therefore associated with death.
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