Zhou Yan Contemporary Chinese Art Archive 周彦当代中国艺术档案
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Date
1990
Format
Photograph
Materials
Ink on paper
Description
In Yang Zhi-lin's letter to Kong Chang-an, he described his condition at that time "after 1989, my creation has been congested, making ink paintings about my blurry and chaotic dream constantly." (For further information about the letter, please refer to https://digital.kenyon.edu/zhoudocs/359/.) "Journey in Dream" is one of the dream-series paintings. He blended black and indigo ink to practice washes(yunran) technique, and tentacle-like lines are attached to color areas. Lines are drawn with different brushstrokes (bifeng); therefore, lines varies in volume, color depth and saturation and brightness. All these approaches combined generate a dream of instability and floatation. His autograph is visible on the left of the picture. The style and position of his autograph vary from piece to piece. (Zhuocheng Jiang '26)
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