Saturday, November 2, 2013

Interpretations of Wang Hui's Scrolls

Shadow Mountains, litho crayon and ink on watercolor paper, copyright Nina Leung, 2013
 The most attractive element of Wang Hui's scroll painting is the way he created the mountains. They're so dreamy and stylized. It's obvious he wasn't there because mountains don't really look like that. But, that's why they look so great in the painting. They're from his own imagination and what he remembers mountains to look like.

I just took those repeating, craggy, curvy lines and did them my own way. First a little bit like him, then less and less. The boys did a project with them as well their interpretations are a bit further away from the original, but still have the same, basic idea of repeating lines and shapes.

Warble Lines, graphite, copyright Nina Leung, 2013

Lined Egg, pastel, copyright Nina Leung, 2013

Eamon's Wang Hui, crayon and tempera on watercolor paper, copyright Nina Leung, 2013

Gio's Wang Hui, crayon and tempera on watercolor paper, copyright Nina Leung, 2013

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