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    GAO XINGJIAN (b.1940)

    Midwinter

    2005

    Ink on Paper
    75.2x58.3cm

    Signed Gao Xing-Jian in English, dated 2005

    Estimate TWD 650,000-800,000
    USD 21,600-26,500
    HKD 0-0

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Gao Xinjian's ink paintings infused oriental sense of tradition with the western abstract style of painting ; his works wandered back and forth from the modernist aesthetics to the real or unreal conundrum, expressing the infusion of both the visual and poetic aesthetics. Fulfilled with ink and flowing contracts of layers, the bright and darks colors present the mood and mindset of the artist. And with the chaotic, half-true-and-half-untrue scenario, time has frozen and started to repeat its cycles, expanding into a limitless world and bringing a brand-new fresh and natural beauty of ink painting of the spirit of Zen thereby. During the year of 1986, Gao Xinjian accepted the invitation to work in Germany for painting and then later settled in Paris. In 1992, he was honored with the Ordre de Arts et des Lettres awarded by the French government. During the year of 2000, he became the first Chinese Nobel Prize laureate in literature.

His superb artistry did not just exhibit in his literary compositions but also in his painting creations. “Midwinter,” for example, was created due to the atmosphere around the artist at the time of its creation, and hence the spiritual scenario reflected on the viewers. The changes of the inks were smudged into endless skyline and land, and is embellished with a lone-standing tree branch in a pale-white snowfield and thereby shapes up an intense contrast. Both the Chinese proverb “a drop in the ocean” or the parable reflected by the well-known novel “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” are reflected in this painting. The perspective toward life it reveals is humble yet resilient, unreal yet somewhat still realistic. Go Xinjin's ink paitings are incorporated with lyrical aesthetics that resemble those in literature; they are always changing in accord to the artist's mood and inspired by his mindset, and the distinctively Zen-ful natural scenes have further enforced the artist's delicate and sensitive mind and his free and easy life perspective.

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