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Gao Yong

Date unknown · Hanging scroll; ink on paper · Asian Art

Gao Yong was a prominent member of the group of Shanghai artists in the closing decades of the dynasty and the early Republican period that included the elderly Ren Yi, Wu Changshi and Luo Hui, all represented in this exhibition. Gao's contemporary vision uses the iconoclastic ink play of the early Qing monk painters Badashanren (Zhu Da, 1626–1705) and Shitao (Dao Zhi, 1642–1707). Gao confounds rational space in a strong interplay of surface and depth, solid and void. There is humor in the bird's awkward balance as it tends to its parasites. Strong blunt brushwork emphatically defines an implausible landscape.

Artist

Gao Yong

Date

Date unknown

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink on paper

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, in memory of La Ferne Hatfield Ellsworth, 1986