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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Beijing
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China
- Cultural origin
- China
- Date
- 2017
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- ink and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 53.0 x 42.9 cm image; 63.4 x 46.8 cm mount
- Signature & date
Signed and dated u.l., in Chinese, ink "Lao Shu wrote [ 老樹筆 ]... late spring of 2017 [ 丁酉暮春時 ] ... Got a boat at Xi County of Huizhou, going east along the Xin'an River, having this thought, painted this painting to record it [自徽州歙縣得扁舟一葉沿新安江東去有此一想造圖記之]”.
- Credit
- Edward and Goldie Sternberg Chinese art purchase fund and funds provided by Edwin WS Mok and Bing Wu 2018
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 85.2018
- Copyright
- © Shuyong Liu
- Artist information
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Liu Shuyong
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About
Liu Shuyong, known also as Lao Shu, is a much-admired photographer and painter as well as a prolific writer and influential scholar. His paintings carry a sense of the absurd in our modern lives of endless activity and pursuit of material things. It is a humour carried through engaging images that draw on Chinese heritage. The characters in his paintings express emotions from agony to ecstasy and the poems accompanying them are often irreverent.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
In one drop of water, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Jun 2019–21 Feb 2021
