Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
A work made of album leaves; ink and color on paper.

Landscapes

1945-55

Huang Binhong 黃賓虹 (Chinese, 1864-1955)

China

Huang Binhong, a mentor to Jiang Eshi, was a distinguished painter who reinvigorated the Chinese literati painting tradition in the 20th century. In these landscapes, Huang brought a fresh perspective to the genre, pairing 13th- and 14th-century techniques with a distinctive liveliness and sketch-like quality. Huang was well-versed in imagery and concepts from Western art, which contributed to what he called “the order within disorder”—the spontaneity and abstract expressiveness that
characterize his works.

Album leaves; ink and color on paper

Arts of Asia