The Buffalo Ride

Lo Koon-chiu graduated from the Guangzhou Municipal School of Fine Arts. After moving to Hong Kong in 1947, he founded the magazine Children’s Paradise and had been the editor-in-chief for 30 years since. During the period, he created quite a number of well-known children’s cartoons. His most well-known traditional Chinese ink paintings are also children-themed. Trained in western painting, his depiction were rigorous in perspective and enlivened by rich colours and vivid scenes. This piece, for example, illustrates two buffalos swimming cross the water. One was wading away on its own, making the shepherd boy shout anxiously. On the other side of the painting, the willow bending over the river expresses the liveliness of spring. Similar composition can also be observed in other works of Lo with slight difference in scene setting, which can serve as a comparison with this piece of work.