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不属于你的
The works of Zhang Jiangzhou shown in the exhibition The Spring of Others are intense and overpowering in their emotional impact. Employing ink to paint scenes weaving together line, wash and figuration, Zhang’s artistic language has evolved from elements drawn from Chinese and Western painterly lineages producing an overall humanistic theme of narrative and formalistic elements. Combining thick and wet brushstrokes with figurative line-drawing...
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The works of Zhang Jiangzhou shown in the exhibition The Spring of Others are intense and overpowering in their emotional impact. Employing ink to paint scenes weaving together line, wash and figuration, Zhang’s artistic language has evolved from elements drawn from Chinese and Western painterly lineages producing an overall humanistic theme of narrative and formalistic elements. Combining thick and wet brushstrokes with figurative line-drawing and form, a flattened perspective is used, crowded with elements featuring bodies, hands, eyes, people and animals all thrown together in a confusing array of imagery that is modernist and has elements of magical realism. The density is demanding and requires unpicking and reading, to see what is going on: who are we looking at? What is happening?
