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Gallery Talk: Chinese Ink Painting

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Yang Yanping and Zeng Shanqing are among the most innovative Chinese ink painters who emerged in the 1980s after the Cultural Revolution. Join curator Colin Mackenzie to explore the personal meanings and stylistic nuances of their paintings of landscape, lotuses, and figures.

An colorful ink painting by Yang Yanping. Yang's contrasting washes of green, yellow, and bright pink bleed into each other, dissolving the subject into abstract nebulas of color.

Autumn Song, 2018


Yang Yanping. Courtesy of the artist.

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