Chinese arts paper mounted on card original work
Inscription reads from larger form
Small visage of lush bamboo forest
With an inscription whose meaning expands to an image whose form is taken from the disparate selection of many chosen part, this painting is likewise the bamboo of a much greater and wider tropical bamboo forest.
The strong ink impresses rich life into the thick trunks of healthy bamboo that populate this one part of the greater forest, verdant green leaves and smaller shoots of newer growth suggest abundant light and potential for growth.
Projecting a visage of the larger natural world this painting carries both life radiated from the dense leaf and growth of the bamboo forest while light carried from the open space gives feelings of freedom, this is a very inspiring piece from an emotional perspective.
Revered across Asia for it’s utility of use and projection of values, bamboo has from ancient times been used in the construction of homes, as vessel of water and it’s young shoots eaten as food, while it’s famed growth has historical connotations of righteous and moral character.
Great traditional artists included the female artist Guan Daosheng who painted natural scenes incorporating outcrops of bamboo in careful composition with outdoor elements including rock outcrops and landscape elements.
Bamboo was well studied by past masters, dedication to painting the perfect form included gaining intimate knowledge of the entirety of lifecycle with artists residing in secluded bamboo forests in order to better their pursuit of study.
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Painted upon a square of yellow tinted arts paper which carries a noteable fibre evident in photo this painting is mounted upon a square of heavier off white card giving a classic feeling to the work.
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