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Angles #2

角度 #2

2020
painter

Arnold Chang 張洪

(American, b. 1954)
photographer

Michael Cherney 秋麥

(American, b. 1969)
Culture
China
Medium
Photography and ink on xuan paper
Measurements
Painting: 61 x 144 cm (24 x 56 11/16 in.); Overall: 64.5 x 147.7 cm (25 3/8 x 58 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Edward L. Whittemore Fund 2022.46
Copyright
© Arnold Chang
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

Xuan paper is renowned for its fine, soft texture and its ability to absorb ink well without blurring, making it ideal for capturing the delicate brushstrokes and subtle ink washes central to Chinese art forms. The paper originated from the ancient Xuan region in China (now part of Jingxian, Anhui Province).

Description

Beijing-based Jewish American photographer Michael Cherney and American-born Chinese artist Arnold Chang created a work by uniting their disparate media. Cherney’s poetic photographs capture real landscapes in China. Here, by adding his brushwork, Chang completed an excerpt from his photographs that was printed on Chinese xuan paper to create a full composition. The resulting artwork defies categorization as painting or photograph, contemporary or traditional, Chinese or American, and expands age-old definitions of Chinese ink painting.
Horizontally long white paper with a central grey-black ink drawing of a mountainous landscape with spindly, leafless trees. A central, slightly darker rectangle marks a hazy photograph from which drawings extend the photographed mountains into the surrounding white paper. The mountains' rough, rocky shapes extend downwards, becoming shorter until they merge with the white paper. Among the white in the lower left corner stack two, square red ink stamps depicting Chinese characters (see "Inscriptions").

Angles #2

2020

Arnold Chang, Michael Cherney

(American, b. 1954), (American, b. 1969)
China

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