Zhou Yan Contemporary Chinese Art Archive 周彦当代中国艺术档案
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Article
Materials
Oil Painting
Description
This painting's subject is a water pipe. The artists has produced multiple serial works with the same subject with some paintings depicting numerous water pipes positioned together. In this painting, the water pipe is a combination of copper browns and greens, suggesting that the pipe has rusted over time. The background is filled with unfinished line sketches of other water pipes. In this painting lies a contrast between the colored and uncolored, the finished and the unfinished (Nicole Wang '26.