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Secluded Valley in the Cold Mountains

寒山幽谷

2008

Arnold Chang 張洪

(American, b. 1954)
Culture
America
Medium
Handscroll; ink on paper
Measurements
Painting section: 60 x 347 cm (23 5/8 x 136 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 2024.69
Copyright
© Arnold Chang
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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This monumental handscroll by an Asian American artist expands age-old definitions of Chinese ink painting and blurs the boundaries between traditional and contemporary, East and West.

Description

Secluded Valley in the Cold Mountains highlights Arnold Chang’s mature style and accomplishment as an artist. Painted in 2008 when Chang was 54, it demonstrates his virtuosity in brushwork and mastery in composition. The monumental handscroll, more than 11 feet in length, is filled with a landscape panorama rendered with vibrant brushwork built up in layers of ink. The scroll is an artistic response to a work by the Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock. This painting marks Chang’s breakthrough as an internationally recognized contemporary ink artist inspired by both Eastern and Western art.
Horizontally long handscroll with black ink on white paper depicting a landscape of undulating mountains with shrubbery and wiry trees covered with soft, black ink dabs or clusters of short lines as leaves. The darkest ink marks the plant-life while the mountains fade to grey, receding in the distance and into the white paper on the left and right edges. In the lower left stack a column of black Chinese characters then two square, red stamps (see "Inscriptions").

Secluded Valley in the Cold Mountains

2008

Arnold Chang

(American, b. 1954)
America

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