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Tall ink painting of misty ravine, small trees grow from the walls.

AG & CP: An ink and color painting of a sepia colored, foggy mountain landscape with a few trees protruding from the mountains

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AG & CP: An ink and color painting of a sepia colored, foggy mountain landscape with a few trees protruding from the mountains

Date:

2002

Artist:

Li Huayi
American, born China, 1948

About this artwork

Impressive in scale and refinement, this depiction of a dramatic ravine evokes the monumental landscapes attributed to China’s foremost painters of the tenth and eleventh centuries. Like those early masters, Li Huayi captured the continuous momentum and flux of nature. Steeply curving banks edged by windswept trees tower precariously over the water, whose receding flow is echoed by the cloud-like mist hovering above. This dynamic image is rendered by the artist’s distinctively expressive method of painting. After defining the composition with large areas of ink spilled onto the paper or worked with a broad brush, Li gradually rendered mass and solidity with denser layers and then allowed the paper to dry before adding details with a small, finely tapered brush. By the artist’s own account, such powerfully fresh landscapes exist only in his mind and do not reflect direct observation of nature.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of Asia

Artist

Li Huayi

Title

Landscape

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1997–2007

Medium

Unmounted, ink and color on paper

Dimensions

182 × 98.3 cm (71 3/4 × 38 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Comer Foundation Fund

Reference Number

2004.450

Extended information about this artwork

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