Zhou Yan Contemporary Chinese Art Archive 周彦当代中国艺术档案
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Date
1998
Format
Article
Exhibition Event Title
My Window-You Jindong Album Exhibition of Own Works
Date of Exhibition Event
12.13- 12.20, 1998
Location of Exhibition Event
Museum of Modern Art Saitama, Japan
Materials
mixed media
Dimensions
270 x 640 cm
Description
"There Are Windows on the Earth" was exhibited in the show, "My Windows-You Jindong Album Exhibition of Own Works" (The photo shows that the artist and his daughter stand in front of painting). The artist employed sloppy and thick brushstroke to depict the muddy and rugged earth of Beidahuang, Heilongjiang province, where the artist was sent to during the "Educated youth going to the countryside" movement. The artist used fisheye perspective to lay the audience down on the earth to view the vastness of the earth and the narrowness of the sky. Earth is a significant symbol in Chinese literature, poetry and drama. It usually represent nostalgia, patriotism, but the artist endorses another meaning to the earth in this painting, which is chaotic and aggressive suppressing the space of sky, For the artist's bio information, see https://digital.kenyon.edu/zhoudocs/392/ (Zhuocheng Jiang '26)
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