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T'ang Haywen 曾海文
Night 夜
circa 1970
Born in Fujian and based in Paris from 1948 until his death in 1991, T’ang Haywen received no formal artistic training, but defined an innovative practice over the course of his career. He developed a signature style on Kyro card—paper originally meant for X-ray prints that has an ideal capacity to absorb ink. Departing from his typical use of bold and expressive brushwork to define a composition, T’ang here makes use of layered, gestural strokes to construct a semi-abstract landscape. The ‘grassy’ foreground and high, level, and far distances are characteristic of vertical ink compositions, but below the mountain ridges, T’ang’s gestural ink play contrasts with an otherwise clear scene. The composition is titled Night, but since ink landscapes traditionally afford little room to work with light and shadow, the definition of the scene as a depiction of evening remains visually ambiguous.
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