«Prospect.3 artist Yun - Fei Ji's 60 -
foot scroll painting is an ecological cautionary tale,» by Doug MacCash
Not exact matches
Commissioned for the Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building and the Louis A. Simpson International Building (formerly 20 Washington Road) at Princeton University, an intricately layered
painting on glass and a sixty - six -
foot - tall mosaic
scroll are the first major public art commissions for Sikander.
The 35 - year - old rising star is considered one of the foremost contemporary artists working in traditional Chinese ink
painting today, with the pieces on display — including a panoramic thirty - two -
foot silk
scroll and a diptych portrait — demonstrate how he deploys ancient techniques and themes to explore contemporary thoughts and ideas.
For each work, Lê has printed a photo - montage pertaining to the conflicts in Vietnam and Cambodia — Hollywood stills, photojournalistic records, those mural
paintings and more — onto a continuous
scroll of paper, some 4
feet wide and 164
feet long.
During the reception, the forty - two -
foot - long cigarette included in Xu Bing's work Traveling Down the River will be ignited on a reproduction of a famous Chinese
scroll painting by Xhang Zeduan, commenting on the way tobacco culture spread into China.
Others call to mind the gestural
painting of Joan Mitchell, especially the one large
painting in the exhibition, «Peaceful Waters,» rendered on a 15 -
foot - high
scroll of Yupo paper.