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Snow scenery in harvest year

Chow Su-sing, Johnson2001

Hong Kong Museum of Art

Hong Kong Museum of Art
Hong Kong , Hong Kong

Chow travelled widely in North America after he settled in the United States and later Canada, taking in the expansive landscapes and drawing inspiration from them. The trips spawned a series of landscape paintings that are panoramic and inspirational. The pictorial composition in this work is so methodically crafted that the viewer is invited into the imaginative landscape first by the trees and rocks in the foreground, then entering the nuanced depths on the pictorial frame. The viewer involuntarily looks from left to right and from foreground to middle ground, and gradually escalating from eye level to aerial view. There is a rhythmic order in the composition, punctuated by voids, boulders and vegetation spread over a spatial yet layered landscape of rivers and mountain ranges.

Details

  • Title: Snow scenery in harvest year
  • Creator: Chow Su-sing, Johnson
  • Creator Lifespan: 1923
  • Creator Gender: Male
  • Creator Birth Place: Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
  • Date Created: 2001
  • Theme: Landscape
  • Physical Dimensions: w442.8 x h142.5 cm
  • Artist's Biography: Chow was born in the city of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province in 1923. The land of his birth is home to men of letters and Chow is upheld as a key figure along the heritage of the Wu School of Chinese painting dating back to the Ming Dynasty. He is also the role model of the literati painter in contemporary China. Moving to Hong Kong in 1949, he taught at the Department of Fine Arts in New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, between 1962 and 1971. During his stay in Hong Kong, his circle of friends included master painters of his time, such as Zhang Daqian, Pu Xingyu, Zhu Qizhan, Xie Zhiliu and Chen Peiqiu. After his many trips to North America between the 1970s and 80s, he finally chose to settle down in Canada where he devoted himself to the cause of aesthetics in traditional Chinese painting. His efforts demonstrated a profound effect, and represented the first attempts of the Wu School of Chinese painting to win recognition in the international art world.
  • Type: Ink and colour on paper

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