Buy Zhang Daqian Art Work Ancient Temples Amidst Clouds

Born in 1899 in China’s Sichuan province, Zhang Daqian was a Chinese artist and collector, initially renowned for his guohua or traditional style paintings, though towards the latter half of his career he became an accomplished modern Impressionist. He is also considered one of the 20th century’s greatest forgers.

He started experimenting with the splashed-ink technique in the 1950s and began to move beyond traditional Chinese landscapes which can be traced back more than a millennium to the Tang dynasty-era artist Wang Qia.

In 1965, Zhang Daqian painted Ancient Temples Amidst Clouds and this was ‘a time of great change for him personally . It was the political situation in China that had led Zhang to leave the country in 1949. Therefore, he traveled extensively and lived in Brazil, Argentina, and California. In 1978, he eventually settling in Taipei, Taiwan,.

 The artist was exposed abroad to a much wider range of artistic styles than were available in China, and the experience of new cultures and geographies gave him a great source of inspiration. In the early 1960s,  Zhang’s work in splashed ink became increasingly free and expressive; he began to add splashes of color to his paintings.

In Ancient Temples Amidst Clouds, Zhang he imprint his creative independence directly onto the canvas. He says his way of painting mountains amidst clouds is different from that of Mi Fu and the others. He also added that he forge his own path. The acknowledgment at once highlights the artist’s conscious love with China’s artistic traditions, and his break from it.

Ancient Temples Amidst Clouds  depicts a stylistic shift for Zhang. The artist used colour to create playfulness and depth in the majority of his splashed-ink paintings.  On Ancient Temples Amidst Clouds, he is more restraint; he uses mostly ink. Color is used more as coloring, rather than becoming the central focus of the work.

Zhang Daqain art work creates layers of depth using just one tone, the painting does not feel heavy despite the build-up of ink. Ancient Temples Amidst Clouds  depicts the pinnacle of Zhang’s splashed-ink paintings. His work has left a legacy behind.  It’s the kind of work that always stays in the back of your mind on your mental wish-list.

Splashed-ink was first introduced in the early 9th century by a Chinese painter named Wang Hsia who would smear ink on silk while he was drunk. Its is said the visual psychology of the splashed-ink is derived from the Taoist concept.

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The Technique Behind Splashed-color Landscape

Born in 1899 in China's Sichuan province is the most significant Chinese artist of the 20th century. Zhang Daqian developed his eyesight problems in the late 1950s while living in Brazil. As his condition deteriorated, he developed his mature splashes color (pocal) style.

This style is seen on his work "Splashed-color Landscape" which depicts abstract expression landscape with titanium mountain region lighted with cerulean and phalo blue deconstructed waterfall. After the creation of the "gold-line" style, the "broken-ink" technique was developed. It was a style to transcribe ink upon paper, and this style stimulated many artists such as Wang Chi, Wang Wei who were all influenced by Chinese Song Dynasty landscape paintings.

Splashed-ink was first introduced in the early 9th century by a Chinese painter named Wang Hsia who would smear ink on silk while he was drunk. Its is said the visual psychology of the splashed-ink is derived from the Taoist concept.

It requires a deep understanding of natural landscape settings as well as academic study of Chinese painting. The ink applied on the canvas gives an almost transparent water color effect that it leaves the viewer to assume that ink was badly used as a medium to paint. There is so much smoothness to the ink painting and is auspiciously smooth to the eye. The ink paint seems to depicts so much justice to the subject matter with its smoothness. The smooth hues blue only emphasize on the waterfalls' conveyance graving on top of black and gray formations.

Zhang Daqian art work " Splash- color Landscape" was dated in 1965 when the politics, world power, military growth and civil rights were all rising. There was a lot of U.S involvement in the Vietnam conflict where more than 4000 marines landed in South Vietnam. There were already about 23,000 Americans who had been serving as military advisers for several years to South Vietnam.
 
During this time while the world powers move in the Pacific, Zhang Daqian was moving abroad to his western studio in order to accomplish the perfection to the works of his subject matter. It was after he became a Buddhist, that the root of his work became a direct reflection of his Zen Buddhism study.
Zhang Daqain art of work ranged from human figure all the way to his popular abstract lotus painting. He created these painting till he reached the final solution of splashed ink and color method to create the abstract paintings.

With overall technique of loosely applied ink, the procedure of free form of the ink splotches and carve the lines of the images delicately bringing dimension of two foot by three fold finished work of art.

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