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, a critic, 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/.) "Snow Dream" here is one of the Dream-series paintings. Compared to other Dream-series paintings, "Snow Dream" seems to be more abstract with less representative symbols. Only the pair of eyes could be readily interpreted. The line across the paintings could be interpreted as a horizontal line or a shoreside. It is also more ambiguous than other pieces e.g. washes are used either as shade, or as color areas. The red ink is splashed all over the place. Lines are equivocal; slight differences between contour line and pattern line are shown.(Zhuocheng Jiang '26)
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