Peonies, 1958
Flowers and birds are the most frequent, ravishing and elegant guo hua (国画) subjects. Chinese artists represent in their paintings flowers, praised for size, shape and color, cultivated for their beauty in royal and special gardens.
Flowers and birds, 1958
Birds, frequently in pairs are contributing to a peaceful, happy, balanced environment. In times artists extended their subjects to include other creatures, all well studied, catching what is the most representatives of their body and movement: fish, lobsters, crawling and flying insects, wild animals.
Opened peony, 1958
Observing the large variety of ink lines used to define a subject in gongbi (工笔) style, the viewer admire the artistic sensitivity expressed in each line as a reflection of a deep understanding of the rules of life, of growing.
Flowers and birds, 1958
In time, these rules coagulated in a code which artists were obliged to respect and later wanted to break, to regain the total individual freedom of expression in xieyi (寫意) style.
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