1973-9
1973
Artists
Description
What appears to be one dramatic gesture is really the result of a complex series of applications of splashed color and brushed ink. The circular format, always a challenge to compose, finds antecedents in the round painted fans of traditional China; the format here provides the perfect “non-window” for the artist’s nonrepresentational painting. Feng Zhongrui joined the Fifth Moon Group—an association of Taiwan artists concerned with the modernization of Chinese art—in 1961. Five years later his works were exhibited in the U.S. His spontaneous applications of layers of color and ink attracted great interest in this country, and in 1975 Feng relocated to the San Francisco area.
Dimensions
painting proper: 52 cm (20 1/2 in.) full mounting: 89 x 62.5 cm (35 1/16 x 24 5/8 in.)
Provenance
Feng Zhongrui, Taiwan (1973), probably gift; to Chu-tsing Li, Lawrence, Kansas (1973?-2012), gift; to his son B U.K. Li, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2012-2014), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2014. Footnotes: 1. Dr. Chu-tsing Li (1920-2014)
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