5/18/2023 0 Comments China mountain zhang![]() ![]() ‘A slightly drunken collaboration of Franz Kline and Hans Hofmann, with a few asides from Jackson Pollock, and a splash or two from Adolf Gottlieb’ - Alfred Frankenstein In Beijing from the late 1920s, he was viewed as the ‘southern counterpart of Pu Xinyu in shan shui painting, Qi Baishi in flower and bird painting, and Xu Cao in figure painting’ - and in 1944, his copies of Buddhist wall paintings from the caves at Mogao and Yulin prompted the establishment of what is now the Dunhuang Research Academy.Īfter leaving his homeland in 1949, Zhang eventually settled in Brazil, then California, and finally Taiwan. He went on to study first textile dyeing in Kyoto, then traditional painting under Zeng Xi (1861-1930) and Li Ruiqing (1867-1920) in Shanghai, where he began to emulate traditionalist masters such as Shitao (1642-1707), Tang Yin (1470-1523) and Chen Hongshou (1598-1652). ![]() Zhang had a colourful youth: born into an artistic family in Sichuan in 1899, he was captured by bandits at 17 and spent a brief period as a monk. ![]()
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