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From the Series: The Coming

From the Series: The Coming

1970
(Chinese, b. 1932)
Taiwan
Hanging scroll; ink and collage on paper
Overall: 207.4 x 81.1 cm (81 5/8 x 31 15/16 in.); Painting only: 141.5 x 73.6 cm (55 11/16 x 29 in.)
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Ku Yin Lin 1970.111
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Liu Kuo-sung envisioned the Fifth Moon Group bridging the deep ravine between Chinese and Western painting.

Description

A pioneer in modern Chinese ink painting, Liu Kuo-sung left mainland China at the age of 17 for Taiwan where he founded the progressive Fifth Moon Group (五月畫會) in 1956. While artists in mainland China still used socialist realist styles and political propaganda, the group in Taipei already began to assimilate Western concepts and techniques such as American Abstract Expressionism with traditional ink painting. Impressed by the Apollo missions that landed the first human on the moon in 1969, Liu started to create series of moonscapes or landscapes of the cosmos (taikong hua 太空畫), like this one, reflecting his newly gained vision of nature and the universe.
  • ?-1970
    Dr. Ku Yin Lin [1914-1983] and Mrs. Julia W. Lin [1918-1993], Cleveland Heights, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1970-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1970.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 58, no. 2, 1971, pp. 22–71. Reproduced: p. 69, no. 117 www.jstor.org
    Liu, Guosong 劉國松, Glen Lucas, and Mingxue Xie 謝明學. Ben.yue: liu guo song [奔.月: 劉國松 = To the moon: Liu Kuo-Sung]. Kaohsiong: Gaoxiong shi li meishuguan [Kaohsiong Museum of Fine Arts], 2020.
  • Spotlight on a New Generation: Contemporary Chinese Artists (Chinese art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 6-August 16, 2020).
    Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971).
  • {{cite web|title=From the Series: The Coming|url=false|author=Liu Kuo-sung|year=1970|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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