![]() He reconfigures the structure and composition of the Chinese characters through random and improvisational actions and uses swathes of luminous green and moody gray to incorporate negative space as a compositional element. ![]() In Green Abstract, Wang again uses a traditional Chinese brush with ink on rice paper, but his strokes are free and bold. But, embracing the aphorism that "calligraphy and painting share the same origin," his brushstrokes form abstract rather than legible shapes, and his use of monochromatic shading confounds any attempt to discover literary meaning. He paints Ink and Gold Abstract Calligraphy using a traditional Chinese brush and ink on gold-flecked paper. He created two more 1994 works, Intricate thoughts in Mind, and Azure Dragon, using a flat bristle brush, with black ink, on red cardboard paper, and a sponge painting brush, with silver and gold color, on black construction paper, respectively.ġ995 marks the watershed when Wang breaks calligraphy's traditional readability as a literary text. In Lan Ting Xu a two-panel cursive-script rendition of " Preface of the Orchid Pavilion ," he ‘paints’ with silver felt marker on black construction paper. By the mid-1990s, Wang began experimenting with a wide range of unconventional materials. The result is a sense of depth and recession that may have inspired his later explorations of color and motivated his shift toward abstract calligraphy. But he deviates from standard form by carefully stamping his delicately designed seals in the negative spaces between characters and stamping the left end seal over his inscriptions. In Blooming Flowers with the Full Moon, he uses a flat bristle brush with ink and maintains a master's control over the poem's running-script brushwork. In the earliest of these works, Wang tentatively plays with form and materials. C.C.Wang (1907-2003), Homecoming (Gui Qu Lai Xi Ci) | Cursive Script, Medium: sponge painting brush with silver pigment on blue construction paper, framed, With four seals of the artist, Size: 37 x 24 3/4 inch (94 x 63 cm) Homecoming by Tao Yuanming My fields and garden will be full of weeds, how can I not go back? It was myself who put my mind into bondage, so why go on being sad and lonely? I understand that what is already past cannot be rebuked, but know the future's possibilities. But, in the early 1980s, Wang incorporated a series of changes that revolutionized the relationship between form and meaning, transforming his works into abstract calligraphic expressions and assimilating his classical literati training with his life in New York City. 1923), Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008), and Cy Twombly (1928-2011), Wang’s early experiments with Western techniques and methods focused on using crumpled-paper pointillism and tonal washes to explore the effects of texture and chance on naturalistic landscapes. Initially unmoved by the avant-garde work of fellow students Knox Martin (b. Wang's close association with the Art Students League of New York exposed him to Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Graffiti, and other significant twentieth-century art movements. They chart the artist's journey from traditional calligraphy, through an experimental phase, and culminate in an abstract calligraphic period that marks his transformation from a classical Chinese landscape painter to a contemporary artist, working in tune with the 1980s and 1990s creative currents. ![]() ![]() The exhibit's 16 pieces, culled from the collections of a small group of Wang's friends and students, represent three significant stages of work. The gallery is currently open by appointment only. Fu Qiumeng Fine Art is located on the ground floor, at 65 East 80 th Street in Manhattan, New York City. The exhibition will open on January 18 and continue through March, 5th, 2022. Wang’s former students–artist Arnold Chang and independent scholar Kathleen Yang. In conjunction with the exhibition, FQM will publish essays by two of C. Wang's Calligraphy,' the first retrospective to focus on the artist's final two decades of calligraphy practice in New York City. In celebrating the coming 2022 Lunar New Year, FQM is pleased to open 'New York Rhythms: C.
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