Brush Symphony

The long career of Wang Jiquan, known as C. C. Wang, comprises numerous aspects of Chinese art and culture. In the finest Chinese scholarly tradition, Wang was connoisseur, collector, dealer, and artist all in one. Brush Symphony, completed by the artist at the age of ninety­ one, belongs to his series known as “calligraphic images,” begun in 1993. The series experiments with modern forms of calligraphy to create a new visual language of shapes and lines that may appear readable, but are not. Derived from traditional principles, they are exercises in pure abstraction, executed not with a customary brush but instead with a modern sponge-brush.